how do you film your own hunts?
 

how do you film your own hunts?
i would like to try and do this but dont know how.

RE: how do you film your own hunts?
 

When I hunt from the ground I carry a backpack with my camera, tripod, tapes, battery, and other equipment with me... I also may take a ground blind if someone is going to film me...

When I hunt from a tree stand I carry in a tree arm strapped onto my backpack with the camera and tie a rope to the backpack. Then I just pull everything up and start filming. The key to filming a hunt is always bring the camera! You can't record a hunt if you don't bring your camera....;)

Good Luck!
Mike

RE: how do you film your own hunts?
 

I do pretty much the same,

Tripod on the ground, Tree arm in the tree...

Heres a few samples from stands...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AY84OGAUhU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBurjEA2yGI

And from the ground....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q52u9ROoFnQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btkxnGtC-7E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dfcPpS4NaA

RE: how do you film your own hunts?
 

Just what 8pt said, I like to use the older 8mm with the flip out screen, you can find them on ebay for cheap the last one I got was only $25.00. I have 4 of them now, I droped one out of the tree last year and broke it so at $25 to $50 no big deal. The model numbers I look at are Sony CCD-TRV11, TRV-12, TRV-21, TRV-22, TRV-33, they are take the same battery. When I started in the early 90's I would tape everything, if I was not going to shoot I would take the camera off the tree pod and use my hands, now I just tape my kills and any nice bucks (in or out of range)Just like 8pt said always take your camera sometimes it's a pain in the A but when you get that kill shot on camera or video of a monster it's worth it.

RE: how do you film your own hunts?
 

well i would like to get my first deer kill before i worry about filming but once i get one ill try and film the others;)

RE: how do you film your own hunts?
 

Here are some pointers for VIDEOING you own hunt;) Taping your hunts

RE: how do you film your own hunts?
 

Filming yourself can be a real pain, but in the end it is all worth it. I just got into filming this year. Got my buddies first deer harvest with a bow and man what fun.

RE: how do you film your own hunts?
 

can we see the video?

RE: how do you film your own hunts?
 

I took someone out with me this past weekend on a duck hunt here in South Florida to video. He was a real novice with the camera and I need to upgrade my older MiniDV JVC camcorder but its easy to edit with my macbook/imovie. If you want quick easy videos, I recommend the flip video camera. I use it as well and you can edit both using their software as well as with imovie. for example of both check out these sites

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= or http://8streetgang.blogspot.com

RE: how do you film your own hunts?
 

the video didnt work

RE: how do you film your own hunts?
 

If you were talking about mine..here it is again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulJYLbzeuQo

RE: how do you film your own hunts?
 

thats an awesome video man. i want to get into waterfowl hunting

RE: how do you film your own hunts?
 

What could be better than filming your first kill? I wish I would have thought about that years ago when I got my first one.

RE: how do you film your own hunts?
 

Having your first kill on video would be sweet, however why put that much pressure on yourself? It's hard enough to self video when you've killed over 100 deer, If you can find someone to video it for you so you don't have to worry about running the camera and trying to kill the deer, that would be the way to go.;)

RE: how do you film your own hunts?
 

THE BEST WAY GET A CAMERMAN. YOU CANT TELL THE TRUE STORY OF THE HUNT IF YOU TRY TO FILM IT YOURSELF. ALSO TAKE THIS INTO CONSIDERATION. WHILE YOU ARE TRYING TO FILM THIS DEER OR ANIMAL YOUR TRYING TO SHOOT , YOU ARE TAKING AWAY FULL ATTENTION TO SHOT PLACEMENT ON THE ANIMAL BECAUSE YOUR TRYING TO CAPTURE IT ON FILM. BEST ADVICE TEACH A FRIEND.

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I disagree, you can tell the story very well self video taping, it just takes more time and effort............As for taking away from shot placement, I could see this with new or inexperienced hunters, not so with someone that has a few kills under thier belt.

RE: how do you film your own hunts?
 

Yeah, logistics are about the hardest thing to figure out filming by yourself. Having everything you need at just an arms length away is critical. Especially hunting spooky deer like they are up here in Michigan. Just read anything by John Eberhart and you'll how hard it is up here. As for shot placement, as long as you can control buck fever, you're good to go. I actually think filming takes your mind off it a bit. You're too busy working the gear to get butterflies.

RE: how do you film your own hunts?
 

I use a tripod and rest on something solid. Have vids on utbe " wildernessmemories"