Trail Camera Placement

Here are some helpful tips when it comes to the placement of your cellular camera!

1.) Motion sensors (PIR sensors) are heat and motion sensors. This is why on a hot windy day people get false triggers. The camera says "Hey there is a hot moving object in front of me". We have tried our best to alleviate these for you.

2.) High sensitivity for hotter weather (make sure you clear weeds) and lower sensitivity in the winter as heat is much easier to detect. It is also why it's important to set cams up closer during super hot periods as it is harder to detect the heat difference.

3.) PIR is designed to not let an animal get away undetected. However, it is possible to walk straight at a camera and get close before triggering. Remember an animal will 99.999% never stay that straight in a "blind spot" and turn perfectly and walk straight away as a person can. Also, you can see why if you have your cam set up 90 degrees to the trail you get ahead only pic. When you set cams try to focus where they are coming at a 45-degree angle towards the camera for the best pics. If you can then leave directions on how you would like the deer to travel on a nearby tree!!

4.) If you hang a cam high in a tree and then angle down your detection "window" becomes much smaller so this is only a good plan if you have a spot they are going to come to like mineral or a scrape. On a trail, you have to be cautious as deer could easily walk through the top of your picture without a trigger. If this were to be adjusted higher then when you hang level on a tree you would get every moving tree branch on a hot day.

5.) Face trail cameras north