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Bull Elk Browning Recon Force Trail Camera BTC-2

A bull elk with four points on each side already on May 26 taken with a Browning Recon Force trail camera. You can see all six of the Rapid Fire photos in this series below.


Black Bear with Browning Recon Force Trail Camera

A Black Bear that walked by in the dark of night. All six of the Rapid Fire photos of this bear can be found below.


Spike Elk with Browning Recon Force Trail Camera

A spike elk that walked by the DIYHNTR03 camera.


Trek Cobia 29er with 36h Wheelset

My ride up the mountain — a Trek Cobia with custom 36 spoke 29er wheels.


Hidden Camouflage Browning Recon Force Trail Camera

Can you see the camera? Neither could I. I walked a 100 or so yards past it while looking for it. Luckily I marked it on my BackCountry Navigator App and I turned around and went right to it. This camera I left in the same spot but I set it to take 30 sec HD video clips to see what I get on it next time out.


View of Browning Range Ops digital screen.

If you see the digital screen looking like this don't panic like I did. When I set it up in the new location it took a while to figure out what was going on with the digital screen on this Range Ops trail camera. You have to be looking directly into the screen or it will appear as black rectangles. I had placed the camera up about 8 feet in a tree looking down over the tall vegetation and trail that dropped off the backside of a ridge. By having the camera up so high I could not get the right angle to view the screen.


View of mountain

View of the mountain near where my trail cameras are set out.

I scouted for elk and placed three Browning trail cameras out a couple of weeks ago. Because I was so excited to see what I would get on the cameras, it was difficult, but I was able to wait for two weeks before going back up the mountain to check the Browning Trail Cameras.

The excitement of wondering what might be on the cameras had me going crazy wanting to go check them, however, I figured it would be best to leave them a while before checking on them. I was itching to see what I could get pictures of. Being new to trail cameras I also was looking to learn more from these first two weeks and place the cameras in better places or adjust the settings to better suit what I was needing.

I took my 29er mountain bike back in to double on getting exercise while I was checking my trail cameras. It's a good two-hour ride up the mountain and another hour hike up to where my highest trail came is located. Plenty of good exercise, especially to help my bad knees. Biking has been the best thing for my knees.

I decided to move the Browning Range Ops Trail Camera to a different location. Where I placed it originally wasn't a bad area it just was a little more out of the way to check it along with the others.

I learned something when I moved the Range Ops trail camera to the new location. When you see the digital screen all covered with black boxes make sure you look at the screen from directly in front of it. You can think it is broke or the batteries are bad and change out the batteries and SDHC card all you want but the screen is still going to look this way... trust me I tried. Dummy me. :)

Once back off the mountain the very first image was of a bear. Way cool! I have never even seen a bear track on this mountain. I have heard rumors that they are up there but until now I have never seen any sign of them.

This bear came through after dark and I got 6 rapid-fire photos of him walking past the camera. (see photos below) Unfortunately, I had the Image Data Strip turned off on this camera. Hmm... Thought I had it turned on, on all the cameras. I like all the info printed on the bottom of the images. I'll have to double-check it next trip out to make sure I get the data strip.

Here are the rough details of what I got on the cameras.

One thing that surprised me was the battery life. I came prepared to swap out batteries on all of the cameras and the camera that had new batteries when I put it out two weeks ago still showed 100% power. The batteries I am using are the less expensive Rayovac AA batteries. The other two cameras did well also but they already had well-used batteries when I put them out so I went ahead and swapped out the batteries.

Rapid-fire is a nice feature for the game trails I placed the trail cameras on. Even with the rapid-fire images it still can be difficult to capture everything that goes by. That is why I am trying the 30 sec HD video option on one of the cameras to see how much more it will capture.

Two additional things I learned: One, is that I don't want to place the camera where it is pointed directly at the sun early in the morning or late in the evening for that matter. Second, is when I place the camera along a trail, I try to get a few feet further away than I did. So probably about 15-20 feet if possible.

With so many photos of elk and mule deer, it was hard to narrow down what I should put on my blog post today. Below are a few of my favorites.

Bull Elk Browning Recon Force Trail Camera Image 1

Bull Elk Browning Recon Force Trail Camera Image 2

Bull Elk Browning Recon Force Trail Camera Image 3

Bull Elk Browning Recon Force Trail Camera Image 4

Bull Elk Browning Recon Force Trail Camera Image 5

Bull Elk Browning Recon Force Trail Camera Image 6

Black Bear Browning Recon Force Trail Camera Image 1

Black Bear Browning Recon Force Trail Camera Image 2

Black Bear Browning Recon Force Trail Camera Image 3

Black Bear Browning Recon Force Trail Camera Image 4

Black Bear Browning Recon Force Trail Camera Image 5

Black Bear Browning Recon Force Trail Camera Image 6

Cow Elk Rear Browning Recon Force Trail Camera

Cow elk walking past DIYHNTR01 camera.


Small Mule Deer Buck Browning Recon Force Trail Camera

Young mule deer buck on the trail camera.


Mule Deer Buck with Browning Recon Force Trail Camera

The best mule deer buck on the trail cameras.


Two cow elk Browning Recon Force Trail Camera

Two cow elk walking past the Browning Recon Force Trail Camera.


Mule Deer with Browning Recon Force Trail Camera

Mule deer walking past DIYHNTR03.


Moose with Browning Range Ops Trail Camera

This moose got up close and personal with the trail cam.