woods and water

[skyhunter]

a few recent ones from different sets:

[wdswtr]

Where were these taken fort ricky game farm? LOL  That group of bucks is an awesome picture. Now what is that blue haired bird in the one pic?

[G-Man]

Nice shots as always! The one is a green heron?

[Geno C]

wow! that creek shot with those bucks is amazing! nice job

[hunter]

Now I know why the DEC changed thier policy; all the bucks are at skyhunter's.lol

[fasteddie]

Great pics .....thanks for posting them . Love the pic of the bucks in the creek !

[DIAMOND D]

Yeah, what a bachelor group. Great photos!

[Moosemaple]

What brand camera are you using and how many mega pixels? Great shots, you must be an expert.

[wmig2]

Great pics.

[Dave]

Just amazing. Thanks for sharing, now I know what bucks look like. Do you have AR in your DMU? If yes I am all for it.

Dave

[ANTLERS]

Just think,Those bucks are buddies now,But in 2 months they'll be fighting and deadly enemy's.Its amazing what females will do to us.

[Fantail]

Nice pics skyhunter.

[ny hunter]

Great shots some real nice deer.Best of luck this year.That one deer looks awesome and he still has some growing time.

[genesee_mohican]

Awesome pictures, some of the best I've seen. Great job on the setup.

[UpStateRedNeck]

I really enjoy all your trailcam posts Sky, the only problem with them is that they make me want to bust out of this cubicle and hit the woods.

[skyhunter]

thanks all; these pics were all taken with " homebrew" trailcams built from kits that use mostly older model Sony digicams. the pictures are normally much better quality than what you would normally get from commercially built trail cameras. While I have been at this hobby kind of passionately for a few years now, anyone can get their hands on these homebrew builds and then put in some time, find some sets, and get some great pictures.

As far as AR's go here in Orange, I'm not aware of any but I'll have to check again for the 2011 season as these can change from year to year.

the 2 bigger bucks in this woodlot were not present in the multi buck picture. In fact haven't gotten the bigger boy in quite a while. While this spot in Middletown, NY (Orange county) is not known for many bucks getting to the 130 class, this one had some promise, but has not been seen for a while. Lets hope it's the summer doledrums and that he might be more active come fall.`

this pic was taken with a Sony P41 homebrew trailcam (4.1 megapixel ) :

[ny hunter]

Oh MY! he is awesome,I'm gonna need to know exactly where you are.....LOL Hope you get a chance to hunt him,Great looking deer.Best of luck.

[wdswtr]

If anyone can get there hands on these homebrew trail cams you care to share some more info them? 

[skyhunter]

Go on Archertalk.com and look for a guy with the user name "12ringer"; I bleieve he is the buisness of building and selling.

he can normally be found in the bowhunting sub forum game camera section.

also "buckshot164" is very involved with the homebrew builds.

[wdswtr]

Thanks I researched it a bit and come up with pricing for all the parts and the time invovled to be higher than I care to spend.  One sight even said about 200 bucks total for a 35 mm film model and 200 to 300 for a digital homebrew and that was just getting the parts and building it yourself.  Quality looks darn good though which would be a good reason I guess.