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General Discussion To Gateway To Airguns => Airgun Gate => : Wingman115 March 01, 2010, 02:30:52 AM
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Well I was at WalMart again the other day cruising the sporting goods section when I spotted a Bushnell Sentry IR trail cam on sale so like all good macho men I begged the wife to let me purchase it.. She just rolled here eyes and talked about working to support my hobbies. I laughed and grabbed it off the shelf. I brought it home then it dawned on me darn I need a SD card and snuck out to go to WalMart again. Once the mission was complete I set up the camera on the outside of the fence facing a trail used by horseback riders that borders a canyon. Placed some tuna fish out there for bait and took some test photos to make sure the shot was in the frame of the photo. All good... secured the camera and left it overnight. Well the wife got me up early today to go get the camera to see what critters have wandered our way during the night. I brought it back to the house and put the SD card in the reader to view and viewed 2 nice photos of my fat head!... Once again the wife rolled her eyes and said something about my hobbies... I told her it's only the first night and we'll try again tonight... Details to follow....
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That's hilarious! Sounds like me and my wife. Good luck tonight.
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Great story :) I can just picture the look on your wifes face as she rolled her eyes at you :) LOL
Looking forward to your trail pics... I'd love to get one of those to use in the woods I do my bow hunting in but it's public land and I just know someone would steal it on me. One of my friends told me the other day that his 14 year old son, who loves to hunt and who will be bow hunting for the first time next season, saved up his allowance for months along with $ he got from collecting the deposit on bottles and cans he found and bought himself a trail cam. He set it up in the woods down the street, where he plans on bow hunting. For several days he would religiously retrieve his memory card and would have great pics of some nice deer, then one day he went down to check on it and it was gone, some "dirt bag" had stolen it. :( Poor kid was heart broken.
Anyway, I'll be looking forward to those pics :)
Jeff
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Your head's a GOOSE EGG? heh heh Time for me to bring out my BIGFOOT costume......
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I think all our wife's have the same eye roll lol but the trail cam will pay for itself soon enough with some critter pic's. :) Ed
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Oh btw the wife made the comment in WalMart if someone steals that thing your dead meat! LOL got to love the wifey....LOL
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I'm going all out tonight with sardines... that should bring something in.... I hope out of self preservation!
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The big foot idea is awesome! A couple guys I work with have the trail camera set up. I could only imagine how excited they would be to see big foot staring into their camera! They would spend days in their tree stand trying to get a shot. I will have to look into that. Thanks for the idea.
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Sardines are the ticket for raccoons. They seem to have sardine radar!
I haven't had the heart to retrieve my camera today. Hunting season ran out at midnight and I'll just be bummed at what I see.
I'm moving it out to my friend Jim's house this week to see if there are any turkeys about.
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Hey Wingman, what do you think if my new "quote" in the tag line at the bottom? :D
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Nice LOL
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Here is what the game camera "should" look like. :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DE-bFsFXh4
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That is some great footage! Makes me want to rush out and buy one of those, it looks like a lotta fun...
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Neat video.... I'd like to have one of them as well :)
Jeff
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Ok round 2 me and the daughters boyfriend went out tonight after dark to set up the camera again and put out some sardines..... Details to follow
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I'll betcha get some good pics with those sardines out there :)
I just set up my "ding donger" outside a few minutes ago, but I'm trying to catch whoever it was that siphoned all the gas out of my truck and the wifes car last night :( Had to refill the tank this afternoon and it cost me $75 bucks :(
I wish us both luck tonight :) only difference is if my "ding donger" goes off tonight I'll be running out to the driveway with something a bit more powerful than an air gun :)
Jeff
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Light em up Jeff! Good luck with you camera tonight Wingman, I don't know if you saw but those coons were eating guess what? SARDINES! :)
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I plan to Randy :emoticon:
Jeff
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So? We are waiting the footage! Did you get anything last night?
I've pulled my camera from the backyard since game season is over.
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Ok I got up at 630 and headed out to get the cam.. There were 4 pic's on it the sardines were the same so I had mixed reservations. I got back in the house and loaded the SD card into my canon camera to view. I viewed 4 pic's of me and my daughters boyfriend putting out the bait... I will try again later in the week... side note when we placed the cam last night I looked for the tuna I had left the night before and it was gone so something is paying me a visit during the day.. I'm afraid to leave the cam out because it's a busy horse trail and the cam might pull a Hodini .
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Are we fishing or hunting?.... hehe
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Well I left the cam out on video all day.... I went to check on it and it caught something a bunch of crows eating the sardines... Well it's a start.
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I think placing the camera is just like hunting (well it is hunting in a weird). Mine is along a natural game trail. I too am worried about the Houdini, but not in my backyard. I know the kids that play down there and they wouldn't take it.
I'm going to buy a bag of cat food and some more deer corn to spread out at my friend Jim's house. I can't wait to see what is out there!