Patterning turkeys can be every bit as tricky as patterning trophy bucks. The basic problem is the same: you don't know where the turkeys are or their pattern of their movement. You need to see them to find that out. But if they see you, your presence can blow them out of their pattern. And as every hunter knows, turkeys have really good eyesight.
The second critical problem is that you have to be there. However much you enjoying being in the turkey woods, you can't be there all day, every day. Even if you pattern the birds successfully one day, that pattern may or may not be holding up a week later, let alone for the entire season.
The Day 6 Plotwatcher Pro solves both of those problems, and does so better than other trail cameras. Simply place a Plotwatcher Pro in places you find fresh sign - for example, creek bottoms, food plots, or feeding area under pine trees. The camera is completely unobtrusive and minimizes the number of times you disturb the area and decreases the risk you bump birds.
Most good trail cameras will do that, but the Plotwatcher Pro gives you some extra advantages. First, the batteries can last up to four months. That's longer than other trail cameras on the market, and means that checking the camera usually does not involve anything more complicated than switching out the card. No packing around extra batteries or spending time switching them out. The battery life of the Plotwatcher Pro allows you to take up to 1,000,000 images on a single set.
The combination of long battery life and massive storage capacity also gives you greater freedom in timing the dates when you check the camera. If family or work obligations cause you to miss a day, at least your Plotwatcher Pro will be out there scouting for you. Using a Plotwatcher Pro allows you to decide when and how often you enter the area, keeping disturbance to a minimum.
Even more important is that Potwatcher Pro takes wide-angle, deep-focus photos at timing intervals that you select. It will take pictures as fast as one per second all day. The camera does not depend on motion directly in front of it to trigger a photo, so with Plotwatcher Pro if the turkeys decide to be at the very back of the opening, or they don't come directly in front of the camera as they work their way down a creek bottom, you still see them.
In fact, because you can set the camera to take photos quickly the camera delivering a true video of them. That gives you a better idea where the turkeys are coming from and which direction they're going, how many of them there are and how they interact with each other. You'll be able to tell whether they are just moving through the area rapidly or staying to feed. And you'll know what time of day they show up, and how many days in a row they do (or don't) show up. And you'll know whether and when their patterns change.
If you have had experience with other trail cameras, the idea of sorting through a million photos might sound tedious. But The Plotwatcher Pro has you covered here, too. Day Six has developed and includes with the PlotWatcher Pro some easy-to-use software - GameFinder software with Motion Search -that allows you to watch 12 hours of photos in video form in about 3 minutes, and lets you quickly find frames in which movement is recorded. Using new Tru-Video technology, the Plotwatcher Pro saves directly to video - you don't have to search individual frames one at a time as you do with other time-lapse trail cameras.
Serious turkey hunters also quickly discover that the qualities of the PlotWatcher Pro give them the same information about other hard-to-pattern animals too, including predators from coyotes to stray dogs. The PlotWatcher Pro isn't just for deer or turkeys. It's valuable year-around.
If your goal is to achieve the ultimate understanding of the land you hunt and the game animals on it, you need the ultimate trail camera. You need the PlotWatcher Pro.
To find out more and to see actual videos of game animals taken by the PlotWatcher Pro, please visit plotwatcher.com.
