Bushnell trail sentry (2.1 megapixel)

[Guest JohnGalway]

I set up my Bushnell Trail Sentry for the first time yesterday. I was watching a particular gap in a stone wall that hares often use to move around. It's plenty big for fox, I always knew that. While setting up I looked over the wall and sure enough there's a fox scat So I put the camera in place and went off about my business. This morning after feeding the ewes I went to check the camera. Good God what a stink of fox once I got near that gap. So I'm thinking they're using that point as a territorial marker. There's no screen on the Bushnell for viewing the camera pics so I popped out the SD card and inserted a new one after putting in the code, really hoping I had a photo.

 

Not long back home now and here's one of me setting it up yesterday evening, see how my Muckboots have discoloured? Odd that.

 

 

Here's Mr. or Mrs. Fox. The camera is around 10-12 feet or so from the wall. I'm really impressed that the Bushnell took the photo of the fox outside the wall, I'm certain my Moultrie camera would not have been able to do that.

 

[dwighet 1]

Nice one John...Were can i pick up one of those trail cameras from?Im in Tipp...

[spudlington 3]

Good work John. What sort of money was the camera? Have the Muckboots myself, they're the cat's pyjamas.

 

Spudlington

[apollo 9]

Hi as you know i have two of them and other makes, what you might find is that the battery useage is very high on that model i ended up conecting a 6v bike battery to mine to allow it to be left for a week at a time, the wildview that we use can go for a month constantly with normal batterys.

 

I got mine off ebay in america they were sent over and even when i got caught for tax once it was still under a 100 pound, just type in stealth cam or bushnell trail cam and search worldwide.....eddie

 

 

http://search.ebay.co.uk/trail-camera_W0QQ...ksid=p1638.m122

Edited April 14, 2008 by apollo

[Guest JohnGalway]

I got mine on Ebay Dwighet, Bushnell Trail Sentry 2.1 mp (model number is 119200 I think). Let me play with it for a week see what other pics or problems I see with it before rushing out to buy one, if you can wait

 

Spud, it cost just over 100 Euro delivered to my door

[Guest JohnGalway]

Hi as you know i have two of them and other makes, what you might find is that the battery useage is very high on that model i ended up conecting a 6v bike battery to mine to allow it to be left for a week at a time, the wildview that we use can go for a month constantly with normal batterys.

 

I got mine off ebay in america they were sent over and even when i got caught for tax once it was still under a 100 pound, just type in stealth cam or bushnell trail cam and search worldwide.....eddie

 

 

http://search.ebay.co.uk/trail-camera_W0QQ...ksid=p1638.m122

 

What other makes you use Apollo? I'd be interested in hearing about them Battery useage on this model will be an issue alright. The problem I found with the Moultrie which has fantastic battery life is that it goes into a "sleep mode". The massive problem with this is it takes a few seconds to wake up, this results in a LOT of blank shots. I'll have to check out the 6v battery option, does it need any special connections?

[dwighet 1]

I got mine on Ebay Dwighet, Bushnell Trail Sentry 2.1 mp (model number is 119200 I think). Let me play with it for a week see what other pics or problems I see with it before rushing out to buy one, if you can wait

 

Spud, it cost just over 100 Euro delivered to my door

i can wait john.

Thanks looking forward to the reveiw..

 

Rgds

Dwight

[Guest JohnGalway]

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[apollo 9]

Hi John i think this might be a trend, the ones that are good for battery life are the ones that shut down and thus take longer to trigger, we have a stealth cam that does his but its not a problem with us as we only use them on bait points and then the animal is there long enough to get good pics....

[Guest JohnGalway]

Hi John i think this might be a trend, the ones that are good for battery life are the ones that shut down and thus take longer to trigger, we have a stealth cam that does his but its not a problem with us as we only use them on bait points and then the animal is there long enough to get good pics....

 

Exactly Apollo. If I had known that about the Moultrie I would not have bought it, as I was after a trail camera rather than a bait station one That gap for example, I wanted to know if a fox was using it, Moultrie would have missed that photo I'm sure fo it due to the battery saving.

[Guest JohnGalway]

More pictures today. Am having trouble with the camera taking way too many photos due either to wind moving bits of grass ot temperature differences. Trail camera forums tell me 1, mount camera on something solid incase camera is moving (not an option I'm afraid), 2, clear any moving vegetation (can't do that either due to what it is), 3, run camera parallel to the wall incase it's the temperature.

 

So I've basically ignored all those good suggestions for the moment. I've moved the camera closer to the wall and staked it down better.

 

Got these shots last night...

 

I'd set a snare last evening hoping to catch my fox. With Ginger here being around I've removed it and relocated it to another place shown below. Cheeky f****r is eating my sardines. Myself and my lamping buddy often see this cat out, he's really frustrating. You know cats eyes at night then look through the scope and see ginger, often been caught out by him. Unfortunately he is someones pet, otherwise...

 

 

Luckily I had a large loop set. He knocked it out of place though so the camera too 140 or so photos of it swinging in the wind...... They were fun to look through.... not.

 

 

More vermin getting in on some of the action... Now wouldn't it have been good if the cat ate that fella and the fox came along and ate the cat then got caught in the snare, make my life easier!

 

 

I've got my Moultrie camera watching another fox run. This is where I'm relocating my snare to. I've caught a number of foxes in this spot before. The ironic and very annoying thing is at the time this photo was taken I was two fields away freezing my arse off watching the other direction :oops: *sighs*

 

 

I went off shooting rabbits after that, saw six and got four, two at 60 yards, one at 120 and one at 145. I knew already the 40 grain moly coated Hornady Vmax was an accurate round so I was going for head shots. I would have preferred a few longer shots but they did not present themselves out that far. Plenty of hares around, nice to see them, obviously not shot any.

[sounder 9]

very good john great post keep it up