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Thought this to be interesting, so throwing the pics up here. Trail camera was grabbing shots the other night, unbeknownst to me, but kind of cool. Camera was toward the end of my lane, pointed back toward my location.

Here the camera must have been tripped by the sudden movement of the boar dropping to the ground. Rewatching the video, he held that position for 2-3 seconds before falling over. The bright illumination is my IR light needed for the NV scope to work in the darkness.




Second pic shows my IR light coming back on a few minutes later, and looking at the black shape in the trees on the left side of the frame shows why. The coons had already given away the approaching sows and I'd verified them easing through the timber with my thermal handheld.



Thinking back, probably 3/4 of the hogs I've killed this spring were busted by coons, which clued me in to their approach. At least those little varmints are earning their keep to some degree.

Mighty fine!

The woods come alive at night.

Between game cams, night vision, thermal and suppressors, the learning curve never levels out.

Piques' my interest even more!

I had this game cam set to do 10 second video clips.

340 of these clips on this game cam disc.





ya!

GWB

I LOVE hunting at night Geedub!

That is an excellent photo, Huntsman.

Yes, indeed! No kidding, just like the painting of an old master. The tree stump, the grass, the light, the shadows.....

But, tell me, how did you manage the raccoon not to move during exposure time and while putting on make-up before?

I got these two that keep molesting my feeder. They climb the legs then hang onto the timer/motor box and shake the He!! out of it. They manage to empty the whole thing. I have about a dozen of them on the camera having a party over a pile of corn.. Time to start thinning out the heard.

Gopher with a .220 Swift.

Good for that young man!
Rick

Dang sure isn’t a carbine….lol

Richard missed it because of recoil....but Daniel got to see it explode.


The look on his face was priceless!

You need spinner like this, will stop the coons from shaking corn out. A coon trap ain’t a bad idea either

Thanks for the info, Unfortunately they only make them for 1/4 in. shafts/12v motors, Mine are 6v with 1/8in shafts. Guess I need to step up to 12v. I have caught 2 in a trap. Now the rest are wise to it. I put a camera on it and they wont even go close to it. There smart bastards.

I have all 12 volt 1/4 shaft feeders, just built 4 for a friend like this





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Very nice. Looks like I might have to make the switch to 12 volt

Feeders here were so much easier when we didn't have bears.....

Bears would be a challenge, could they jack up a hanging feeder on a tripod if legs are staked down well??

Or hanging from a tree limb. What about hanging from a cable strung between two trees?? I rig a winch up like this, use 3/8 all thread for ubolt. I have several like this. You can make to fit any size tree.


I have no bear experience, but don’t see how they could get to a feeder that hangs off a pulley on a cable that’s strung between two trees???





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We tried staking legs but they’d gang up and still get it. Winched up barrel they can’t reach is only thing we’ve found to work.

Got the HK P7 out and kilt a rabbit with it…

Shot these Idaho Rock Chucks Thursday with my TC Contender 223 while it changed from rain to heavy winds to sleet & then a bit of sun light. The Chucks don't like wind so it was slow for quite a while & just before I was about to leave this big old boy started playing peek a boo with me for quite a while.
You could tell he had been shot at before because most times all I could see was an eyeball sticking over a Lava rock watching me hide behind my Jeep. I spotted him 4 different times before he finally made a mistake & gave me a shot, he is a huge Chuck, longer than my gun with a 14" barrel! I had to shoot between the cows & over that snow bank into those Lava rocks to get him, it was 156 yds. He's a real pig!
The next 5 were half a mile away on a very steep Lava reef that dropped off towards the river. I could only get a reading on one of them & it was 241 yds, most all of them were about the same distance. I went 5 for 5. In the last photo you can see the little Lava reef where I had been parked when I shot them. All were big, large males. One of them fell down into a crevice, which is very common, most of the time I only recover about half of them.






Dick