When do ya'll put out cameras / fill feeders ?

Neither come out the woods for me and both stay on.

I have Tactacam and I deactivate the service from them sending pics durning summer but they stay on and I use them as traditional non cell cameras till August then activate them again.

I’ve found that if I keep them running year long they last longer. Was tired of shutting them off and them not working once hung up come late summer.

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I'm getting the itch. Any suggestions for maintaining cameras from long distance (four hours away), mine always send pictures for about a month then just stop. They will show good battery life and signal but no pictures. I've tried Spypoint and Wiseeye, both did the same thing.

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I run my shite year around. I cut back on feed times mid Janurary- August and ramp up feed September-January. Feed cotton seed Mid Jan- September.

Spypoint cams are junk and wouldn’t recommend to my worst enemy. I run Tactacam and they can be frustrating as shite but I think I’ve got it figured out. For a good Tactacam setup you need a solid metal varmint cable, Tactacam cam brand lithium battery pack, and solar panel.

For some reason the cheaper Amazon version battery packs don’t seem to recharge off the solar panel and show external power source. I leaned this the hard way after spending $500 on 20 batteries and now having to go back through and spend $1000 replacing all my Amazon battery packs with packs straight from Tactacam.

Just when I get everything up and running a solar panel will shite out or a camera will go bad

I just put new batteries in my cameras this past Saturday. Looks like a bunch of guys on the lease had the same idea. August is time to start trimming trails and shooting lanes. I don't start feeding yet because there are hogs in the area and plenty of browse in the cutovers, but I have started feeding as early as Labor Day in the past. Now I usually wait till late September/early October around the time I spray for foodplots. I usually feed through early March and cut it off in time for turkey season. The deer don't really hit the corn until later in the fall when there aren't any acorns left. Cell cameras stay up year round.

I normally put out cameras the first week of August, but I haven't had a chance yet.

It's pretty pointless, at least on public land, as their patterns will change significantly by Oct 1.

But its fun to get pics again.

*no feeders on public land

I always wait till September. The guys who put out feeders and cameras at our place in July always get pictures of coyotes carrying off newborn fawns. The pregnant does stay close to the corn and drop them and the coyotes wait for it.