How to Master the Trail Camera

By Kris Jmaeff

A very helpful tool for hunters, explorers, naturalists and photographers is the trial camera. This book tells of 20 years of experience of a woodsman in the Interior of beautiful British Columbia. It gives information on placement, strategies, examples, success results from many real life explorations. Vivid pictures that help the reader to see the art of placing and using wildlife, game and trail cameras.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kris Jmaeff
• Release date: Oct 31, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005499211

Kris Jmaeff

Kris Jmaeff also is an avid hunter and outdoorsman in the world-class forests of the Okanagan, Monashee and Kootenay mountains in British Columbia.Kris has hiked, hunted, explored, quadded and examined the amazing terrain, ecosystem, animals and adventures of beautiful B.C with his family and friends. He is also passionately involved in butchery, meat processing, sasuage making, smoking meats, and : farm, forest, garden to table organic home cooking!

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INTRODUCTION

Hunting surely is a challenge. Many successful hunters believe in the ‘boots on the ground’ approach.  To get out in the forest and look for clues, look for fresh trails, for sign – droppings, scrapes on t}rees, bedded areas, prints in the mud.  Then to look at it closer and see if the sign is fresh that day, a few days old or older.  Then try to decipher if it is well used or just a corridor that animals pass thru once a year. THEN try to figure out if there are numerous animals, a family unit, a herd, or just one animal that frequents the place. Are there predators around?  Are they tracking also –a hunter, just like you? Did they pass thru first?  Are the deer tracks from a bigger animal?  Male or female?  A big buck or doe? A Big boy elk or moose? Based in the beautiful Okanagan and Monashee mountains in the interior of British Columbia – I have hunted, hiked, camped, explored, fished and travelled thru many years and many kilometers of the most beautiful forest in the world. I have seen close up and personal much of the animals that frequent the forest – predators such as Grizzly and black bears in many color phases, cougars in a family unit and the single