How high do you mount your trail camera?

• Dec 6, 2009

• #1

Bradley_G

Senior Member

New to trail cams, wondering how high up I should put it on the tree. 36"? 48"?

 

• Dec 6, 2009

• #2

bullardsls1

Senior Member

i put my camera about 10 yards away from the trail or the feeding area and about 2 foot up the tree it works for me

 

• Dec 6, 2009

• #3

SneekEE

Senior Member

I put most of mine bout knee high if it is on level ground.Used to go higher, now I seem to get more pics??

 

• Dec 7, 2009

• #4

Killdee

Senior Member

Most of mine are on scrapes right now and I prefer to hang high pointed down out of deers normal vision. on trails I still hang higher, 5'or so for the same reason. Harder to set up but I prefer stealth over easy. I do have a video cam and I other cam right on the ground pointed a little up on scrapes due to the set up I had no other choice.

 

• Dec 7, 2009

• #5

fisherman15

Senior Member

i put mine about knee high but put a small stick under it to keep level

 

• Dec 7, 2009

• #6

dfhooked

Senior Member

ditto to the above statement regarding scrapes, especially in the video mode. Your scrape videos will be awesome if the camera is above the deers line of sight angled down.

 

• Dec 7, 2009

• #7

cball917

Senior Member

most of mine are knee to waist high. depends on what they are looking at and what kind of pics i want. various locations have different set ups. most of my feeder pics are flat mounted around 3 ft off the ground

 

• Dec 8, 2009

• #8

Ohoopee Tusker

Senior Member

I put mine a little low but tilt the bottom out with a stick or something. Seems to point the flash farther away and gets better night pics.

 

• Dec 8, 2009

• #9

T

Todd E

Senior Member

The majority of my sets are placed 7' + high.
If I am really worried about theft, it goes 11' + high.

I prefer to be least intrusive when it comes to cammin'.

 

• Dec 9, 2009

• #10

preacher

Senior Member

Todd E said:

The majority of my sets are placed 7' + high.
If I am really worried about theft, it goes 11' + high.

I prefer to be least intrusive when it comes to cammin'.

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That's a great idea. I never thought about putting them up high and pointing them down to keep someone from stealing them. Mine is about 2 feet off the ground, but I might try to move it up higher.

 

• Dec 11, 2009

• #11

elfiii

Admin

Staff member

Killdee said:

Most of mine are on scrapes right now and I prefer to hang high pointed down out of deers normal vision. on trails I still hang higher, 5'or so for the same reason. Harder to set up but I prefer stealth over easy. I do have a video cam and I other cam right on the ground pointed a little up on scrapes due to the set up I had no other choice.

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Good suggestion. I might give it a try. All of mine are 24-36" high.