Last year was our first time setting up game cameras. Our goal was to find out if there were moose in our hunting area or were we just chasing ghosts and positive thoughts. It worked out extremely well and was as a confidence booster to confirm at least to ourselves that we're not crazy! LoL

So where is the best place to put a game camera? Ideally where the moose are and people are not which means you look for tell tale signs of both activities and judge accordingly. We choose areas not frequented by people riding on ATV or walking paths, picking a place along a well worn moose path deep in the woods.

This year we added some new cameras to our arsenal including these Spypoint Link Micro cellular cameras. These feature the latest and greatest in technology as they send pics directly to your smart phone live as they are captured.

The units are compact and great on batteries if you use a quality battery such as Energizer Ultimate Lithium. I ate a set of cheap alkaline batteries in about 40 days, I've had lithium's installed now for over four months and they still show 100%.

We supplemented our Cellular cameras with our repertoire of traditional game cameras to cover quite a few different areas this year.

It wasn't long before we started getting live pictures!

The traditional cameras have to be checked on site, we download the photos to our smart phones using an external SD memory card reader.

This year I also tried out the Spypoint Cell Link which is an accessory that turns any trail camera using standard size SD memory cards into a cellular camera. This is a great unit if you already have a decent camera, if you don't the Link Micro is a better value plus the Micro lets you program camera settings remotely.

The night French walked into a bog hole...enough said LoL.

It was a long ride home....for all of us LoL

These shots were some of my favourite of the season as this beautiful big bull was captured shedding the velvet from his massive antlers.

These next few shots over the span is a real neat capture! 'Ol creepy bull stalking in the background!

On the same night this cow hung out in front of my camera for a bit before lying down right in front of it.

Too bad the lens fogged over but you can just catch the shot of her moving on continuing with her day just a couple hours later.

All those moose on the move that morning and when we arrived that evening to check the cameras we didn't see a thing. That's the luck part of spotting/hunting.

Moose Hunting opening day!

Sometimes its not only moose triggering the camera, today it was a pair of eagles!

As you can see, as the season wears on moose become way less frequent, partly due to some being harvested. I believe after the rut they retreat deeper into harder to reach country where they know they are safe for the winter. The game cameras have been a ton of fun again this year, and we captured some real amazing pics.

Cheers, MIKE

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