Ontario hunters, do you leave your trail cameras out all year.

I leave mine out until the batteries die. I hate having a drawer full of partially used batteries, as I like to start out with new ones each year.
 
I have 4 SpyPoint cameras out year round...

Two are on a property near Spencerville & I have not checked them since last fall.

Two others are near Minden, with a buddy who checks them for me, and he posts the pics to FB to tease me...

It is crazy what the cameras pick up year round!

Cheers
Jay
P.S. JYC, thanks for the pics buddy! Chuckle
 
Time for you to visit those cams with a mineral block Jay. Not much left of last years.
It's cool watching deer grow up, and catching coyotes, wolves, moose and bear. Even got calves and cubs this year.
So far the Minden cams have been very good to us.
 
Foxer2373 said:
Depends if we're are getting a long -30 snap I'll pull them otherwise they stay up.
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Where Jay's are, if it hits -30, No way are either of us going in. You'd need a snow machine, and most of the new ones are too damned big and heavy to go in there. no snowmobile trails. Two of the guys tried last year,didn't even make it half way. Stuck too many times.
 
I have a few that I leave out all year, but wrecked one by taking the battery tray inside but leaving the unit out. Spiders built a nice family home in there, and now I can't get the game cam to work.

That said, I don't keep up with batteries/cards all year . . .
 
Jay's two cameras still have the same batteries in them that we put in them spring of 2016. Eveready Lithium AA. One in particular has taken many thousands of pictures. Mostly of the same local deer, but also of bear, moose, and moose calves.
I have a damaged camera that I now have a home built battery box and a wire to. It also has eight lithium batteries in it. It used to have 4 C cells, and was good for about 2 months. We shall see how it does now.
 
I have 6 cameras and leave them out all year until the batteries die with the exception of my two cellular Spypoints, I keep batteries in them and just move them to my cottage property to keep an eye on things from home
 
John Y Cannuck said:
Jay's two cameras still have the same batteries in them that we put in them spring of 2016. Eveready Lithium AA. One in particular has taken many thousands of pictures. Mostly of the same local deer, but also of bear, moose, and moose calves.
I have a damaged camera that I now have a home built battery box and a wire to. It also has eight lithium batteries in it. It used to have 4 C cells, and was good for about 2 months. We shall see how it does now.
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I will have to try some lithium AAs. I've been using some eneloop rechargeables mostly. I did try those pricey red Duracell batteries, but I think I had a bad batch - 6 batteries dead in 3 days.

One of my cameras has a small 6V battery hooked up to a small solar panel. As long as the cable doesn't pop off the camera - does happen every other month or so - then it works great.
 
I run 9 cameras from mid August to early January on public land. I might start running them year round now that active logging operations in the area have stopped.

I've got everything from deer, black bear, fisher, coyote/wolf, wild turkey, moose, etc. on ours over the years.
 
I would like to but I've had two stolen. Now I only put them out before bear season and deer season and hope they are there when I go back to check.
 
I have them up year round on my farm property, to watch for 2 legged varmints.

Just installed one by my garbage cans because we have twice seen someone digging in there. Identity theft?

Have seen coyotes, deer, rabbits, turkeys and a raccoon.
 
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