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| Written by Aneal Roney | |
| Friday, 08 August 2008 | |
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While I was up in Montana, Matt Hogue was able to get up and check the 3 new stealth cam trail cameras I had set out a couple of weeks ago.
Trail Cam #1 (Wallow)
You have already seen some pictures from Trail Cam #1 over a wallow we hunted several years ago. To date, we only saw herds of cows coming through the wallow area. The good news is that we did get some pics of bulls. All pretty small, but from a scouting standpoint this is good - hopefully as things continue to dry up and the season approaches - some big boys will start moving into this wallow. Unfortunately, at some point the cow in picture two approached the camera and started licking it - so much that she sent the camera sideways. From there are in we have a number of elk but all you can see are their hooves (and a few of them look like bull hooves!).
In addition we did get some pics of a few small deer. Nothing to write home about.
Trail Cam #2 (High Alpine Slide)
I had put a second camera a few hundred yards up above the wallow being watched on Trail Cam #1. My goal here was that we often see mule deer traveling in the high basins and I was trying to get an idea of where they were typically entering down into the trees.
Unfortunately, the only trees to hang a camera on and look up into this alpine basin were small lodgepole pines. Seemed like a good idea at the time, but the reality is the high winds were pushing that tree around and causing the camera to trigger quite a bit. A lot of "nothing" photos. Lesson Learned - use big solid trees - and ratchet straps could have made some improvements. We did get a couple of pics of some small deer.
Trail Cam #3 (Dark Timber Trail)
The last camera I placed on a well used trail coming up out of the dark timber into a small meadow. I was expecting more out of this cam, but only got a few cows using the trail.
Trail Cam Scouting Summary
We know our wallow is going to produce animals (Trail Cam #1). I'll hang a stand there on the first weekend of the season (late August). Matt moved the cameras off that wallow to another wallow a few hundred yards to the west.
Our other 2 trail cams told us that the spots were not hot. Matt moved both of them to another area. Of course, we did get animals on both those trails, so they are definitely areas I will check out when I am still hunting the area. But, we hope we find another traffic zone like we did on the wallow from Trail Cam #1.
How are you all doing with your camera scouting?
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  written by Tom Sorenson, August 11, 2008
No time for camera scouting this year - in fact, I've been too busy scouting for other game that I've not yet scouted for elk...and it looks like I probably won't.
 I've been out scouting for moose, mountain goat, and antelope though - and of them all, I've only had success finding antelope. We'll make it work, though! A lot of it has just been scouting new country. I can't wait for the seasons to open! Aug 27th for antelope and Aug. 30 for elk here in Oregon!
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Picking what to scout written by aroney, August 14, 2008
Tom, makes sense. If I had to pick which species to scout, Mountain Goat and Moose would be a priority on my list before Elk or Pronghorn. Good Luck this year and keep us posted on how you do.
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