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flugge

flugge

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So I am going through past years pics pulling out pictures of my deer, and made me wonder. Do you guys keep doe pics? I have 18000 pictures from last year, and the year before that I had even more. This year I ended up with about 24000 pics.. I run ten to twelve cameras a year and take 2 pics every 5 mins..so needless to say, I have lots of does... so, what do you guys do?? I think I want to delete all the does, but really undecided..
 
cjgarrett said:
I never save doe pictures unless they are something cool.
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Agree. I sort my bucks (if they are distinguishable from others) and get rid of the does and other critters unless its a cool pic. That's a lot of space on your computer.
 
i delete my doe and small buck pics at the end of season when i wont be trying to see where and when the deer are moving.
 
Same as others. I save long enough to pattern, keep the neat pic's, then move all my bucks ( even the little ones) to an external hard drive. I would have plenty of room to save them all, but next year it makes for too many photos to sort through. I try to make sub categories to sort the bucks but even this takes a lot of time. I think the external hard drive I have cost me $125 ish a couple years ago (connects via USB) easy to use and they probably make bigger better cheaper ones today. I was burning to DVDs before but this is way easier.
 
rc10pt said:
Same as others. I save long enough to pattern, keep the neat pic's, then move all my bucks ( even the little ones) to an external hard drive.
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Yup, exactly what I do too.

I can't imagine going back and trying to find a buck pic if it is mixed in with all the doe pics. Guess I could rename it or move it to another folder, but usually just leave them in their original folders.

I'll pull cards today. I'll create a folder with today's date in my Trailcam 2012 folder. In it, I'll create subfolders using cameras name and/or location. I usually back up these files on the external USB hard drive at home and at the one at work. :way:
 
Save them for the year and go back thru and take some notes on activity. End of the year delete them all and just keep the notes file with each individual farm. Save all the buck pics even the dinks, they will grow up eventually.

Kratz
 
I delete all doe's and all 1.5 year old bucks. I will only keep a few cool pictures of spotted fawns or some small bucks sparring.
 
I keep them all, I have them in Iphoto on my Mac and I use them to see patterns over the years. Gotta pattern the does to get those wandering bucks. Even the does where I hunt move depending on the time of the season.

It also have over 2 terabytes of storage and do not keep every doe pic in a day series of pictures either.
 
I probably delete 9 of 10 photos. Few does pictures are saved Other animals either. Just the good ones are saved, and I delete quite a few of the buck pictures too. I have a couple hundred good pictures saved this year. Why save a couple thousand? Space on the PC is not the problem... time is. I find most of them to be a waste of time when going back to look at them.
 
The only doe or other small criter's pics I save are ones that are unique in some way. I used to save all buck pics but in the past few years I have only been saving 2 year olds and up, once they have reached an age that I feel I will recognize them the next year. If a 1.5 is unique, I might save it but mostly just save 2 yrs and up. :way:
 
I rapid fire thru them, and write down the #s of the ones I want to keep. I then drag those to a folder and delete the card. When doing inventory over feed I get 1-2000 pics per night, per camera, so time is the issue.
 
I - like with you CR archer
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I keep them all, I use them to see patterns over . Gotta pattern the does to get those wandering bucks"

I always try and Keep track of our low homing doe's number's , be it watching them from the naked eye or the what the camera's show me on their travel pattern's all year long, Personally - keeping record's of the fawn number's/ the sex of thier of their offspring every year is just as important as keeping track of every buck, .
I always run a couple of camera's - within a 20 yard distance, Just pulled a couple of card 's today on two different scrape's that these camera 's are on, One camera showed one scrape is a doe scrape, the other camera a few yards over showed it was a buck only scrape. Both of these scrapes do also lead to adjoing food plots.
 
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