New to hunting and trail cams
 

A friend and I took up hunting last year and are really enjoying it. We have been scouting several properties and finally bought a feeder and camera. A few weeks ago we decided to set them up a new property we received permission to hunt on. We were up at the property, in northwest Missouri, on Saturday and could not of had a better day. The weather was warm and the wildlife was out and about. We saw nearly 40 deer and a wild dog.

Here are a few pictures of the turkeys that we caught on the camera (Moultrie D40)







Here are a few pictures I took while walking the property.

Is this a big turkey print? It seemed large, but I have nothing to compare it to.


Deer that was killed on the river. We found the carcass 100 or so feet back on the river.


Finally, what we believe to be a mountain lion track. It was been rumored that one has been seen on the property in years past. It was several inches across. What do you think?


Thanks
James

RE: New to hunting and trail cams
 

Nice pics, looks like an awesome property.
I use D40's also. For the price they're great.

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Yes sir that is a turkeytrack. Good pics plenty turkeys.

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Welcome. Nice pics! Good luck not getting addicted to these trail cams.

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jcm2,

Great pictures and welcome. If you are not already addicted to trailcams, you will be!!

Blessings.....Pastorjim

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Nice pictures. You have some really nice turkeys on your property.

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That's great that you took up hunting, it's super fun. Looks like you should have no problems killing a turkey:), sounds like it might not be that hard to get a deer if you seen like 40 of them either:). As far as the mountion lion kill it could very well be, they are all over the place now.[:'(]

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Thanks everyone!

I have fishing bass tournaments for about the last 9 years (25 years old). Hunting just seems to be an extension of my love for bass fishing. The tactics between the two hobbies seem to go hand in hand.

RE: New to hunting and trail cams
 

Your last picture didnt work, but the ones you got look great. Try moving the camera back away from thefeeder a little bit.

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Here is what the last picture was meant to be. WE believe it is a print from the montain lion.

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I did somelooking on web sites about cat tracks. One of the biggest clues to cat tracks are the toes are not even. They are sort of like your hands where some of your fingers are longer than others. One of the cats toes are further forward than the others. Claws sometimes are not visible except in certain conditions. Thisis a track that I found in the river bottoms an have seen it around several times. Ithink it is a cat track due to the forward postion of the toe. That phone is about 4.5" long for comparison.

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MO conservation stresses that if you see wild hogs in MO to shoot them on site and never second quess yourself doing it.
What county you hunting in?

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Yeah, we know there are wild hogs on the property. We have found several wallows. Now we just have to see one.

We are hunting in Ray county

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So there is ferrel hogs in KC area?
Good to know.
I'm in central MO here.
Hunt in Osage, Maries and Cole County

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Next time we go out I will get a picture of the wallows, but as far as we can tell a wild hog is the only thing that would make these. Pluse, there are several places that a short stocky animal has blazed a trail through very dense under brush. We have out camera near one of the wallows so we are hoping to get a picture.

However, we are both inexperienced hunters, but are fairly familar with the outdoors.

We are slowly learning

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Here are some updated pictures from the latest set from the game camera

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that print is definately a dog. you will never see claws on a cat print. also, the main pad on a dog is the heart shape whereas a cat print is more rounded, and "soft" on the sides.

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I think the print is a dog's print as well.. Welcome to the forums as well and those are some nice turkey pics..I like seeing the doe with her tongue out as well..