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Cameras in staging areas

Unread postby Z7WIBoy » Fri Feb 10, 2012 3:08 pm

Is it illegal in WI public to use trail cameras? Would you put a camera in a staging area to verify you have picked a good spot? My thought would be to put it out in may and remove by end of July to let area cool down before season.
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Re: Cameras in staging areas

Unread postby U.P. MAN » Fri Feb 10, 2012 3:57 pm

Pretty sure its illegal on public land. We run cams in staging areas all year.

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Unread postby Zap » Fri Feb 10, 2012 4:01 pm

Personally, I believe that running cams can do more damage than good.
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Unread postby Dewey » Fri Feb 10, 2012 4:07 pm

Yeah it's illegal to use cameras on public in WI at this time but there is a proposal out there trying to change that.

If they make it legal the thieves will be in heaven. :roll:

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Unread postby U.P. MAN » Fri Feb 10, 2012 4:16 pm

Zap wrote:Personally, I believe that running cams can do more damage than good.

Absolutely respectfully disagree. Definetly needs to be done correctly though.

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Unread postby JRM6868 » Fri Feb 10, 2012 4:19 pm

Z7WIBoy wrote:Is it illegal in WI public to use trail cameras? Would you put a camera in a staging area to verify you have picked a good spot? My thought would be to put it out in may and remove by end of July to let area cool down before season.
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My thought is running them at that time is ok if your doing inventory. By time season comes in their food sources typically change and the bachelor groups are breaking up and new bucks will be in the area so camera work at that time can lead you to old info instead of what happening when you will be hunting.
Don't know the laws in Wisconsin on cams.

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Re: Cameras in staging areas

Unread postby Zap » Fri Feb 10, 2012 5:07 pm

U.P. MAN wrote:
Zap wrote:Personally, I believe that running cams can do more damage than good.

Absolutely respectfully disagree. Definetly needs to be done correctly though.

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I would agree with you.
When someone does it right it can yield good intel.
But for the most part I believe they can do more damage than good.
Meaning that most of the time the way they are used /monitered is doing more bad than good.
Not that they always do more bad than good, but they can do more bad than good.


Stanley comes to mind as someone who has had success from trail cam intel.
Obviously Andrae would be on that list also.

I see no advantage in using a camera for the situation the OP describes and believe it would do more harm than good.


I should have been more specific in my first post.
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Re: Cameras in staging areas

Unread postby FRH » Fri Feb 10, 2012 5:46 pm

I have a few spots that I do this in. But it's not directly in staging area it's a little farther down the trail towards food sources. For all that say it can be done; what is the proper way to do it. I'm thinking this yr I'm gonna get the mounts and place them up high in the tree and angle it down so the cams aren't in the deers line of sight. They would have to look up to see it.

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Re: Cameras in staging areas

Unread postby dan » Fri Feb 10, 2012 10:44 pm

Illeagle in Wisconsin, but that might be changing... I personally have to much respect for my staging areas to put a camera there... I worry that going there 3 times in one season to hunt is way to much. I do agree in some circumstances it can be done without to bad of damage. But one has to consider when he sets the camera, and when he checks it he is leaving scent. If you only check it the day you hunt it, did yiou get much out of the experiance? You also have to consider whether the deer your photographing in June are the deer that are bedding there in October. I know Andrae has put them in staging areas during season by not walking where the deer walk and shooting the camera over a downed log/tree... I would much rather have them back a few hundred yards from the bucks bed. You can get good results without damaging the bedding area...
The new cameras that "email" you the pic with a large battery would work so well it would be like cheating.
If you have a method that works getting a camera in that close without disturbing bedding, I would like to here about it...
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Re: Cameras in staging areas

Unread postby Z7WIBoy » Sat Feb 11, 2012 5:05 am

U.P. MAN wrote:
Zap wrote:Personally, I believe that running cams can do more damage than good.

Absolutely respectfully disagree. Definetly needs to be done correctly though.

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UP can you share your strategy as it sounds like more people want to know how this has worked for you and typically how close and frequency of checking.
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Re: Cameras in staging areas

Unread postby jlh42581 » Sat Feb 11, 2012 5:23 am

Staging area for many deer, farm country, keep in mind, this was in spring. This cam sat for a month

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Re: Cameras in staging areas

Unread postby Buckfever » Sat Feb 11, 2012 7:50 am

dan wrote:
The new cameras that "email" you the pic with a large battery would work so well it would be like cheating.


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Re: Cameras in staging areas

Unread postby Buckfever » Sat Feb 11, 2012 7:57 am

The cellular image quality is not that great yet. I like them because I can scout/take inventory 110 miles away without being there.

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Re: Cameras in staging areas

Unread postby jlh42581 » Sat Feb 11, 2012 8:15 am

I feel like this is worth mentioning also.

You probably see my pic and say... what did you pour out there.

It was.... NOTHING, I poured NOTHING didnt pee or anything in that spot. I had the cam with me to put out and really thought to myself, what will make the deer wanna walk here? So all I did was scrape the leaves away with my foot.
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Re: Cameras in staging areas

Unread postby U.P. MAN » Sat Feb 11, 2012 10:10 am

Z7WIBoy wrote:
U.P. MAN wrote:
Zap wrote:Personally, I believe that running cams can do more damage than good.

Absolutely respectfully disagree. Definetly needs to be done correctly though.

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UP can you share your strategy as it sounds like more people want to know how this has worked for you and typically how close and frequency of checking.
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I think the biggest thing for us is that we live 6 hrs away and can't check them "to often" a couple staging area cam sites are long hogsbacks that stick way out into the ag. The cams are placed near the end about 100 yards from bedding,about 75 foot drop in elevation. They don't get checked often,and when we do we can sneak through the ag,walk up and switch cards. Every buck killed on the property has had a cam at the stand site.

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