Trail Cam Before & After Debby

[Hunter26]

Wanted to post some neat pics from a trail cam. I hunt roughly an hour inland from Charleston, SC and tropical storm Debby came through. She dumped a whole lot of rain on most of the state. The two pics are from the same camera, in the exact same position on the tree, taken before and after Debby. The area does flood, because of its proximity to a creek and swamp, but this was a new high for me! My other stand on the same property but roughly a mile away only had a couple of inches of water.

 

[salmonchaser]

Wow, I’ll never belly ache again about having to hunt in the Oregon rain forest when I was young.

 

[Hunter26]

Got another pic about 12 hours later. Camera is still working somehow.

 

[RL338]

Years ago my brother had a camera by his stand when we received a heavy rain storm. The camera took pictures as the water was rising. Once it was totally under water it stopped. It was interesting to see how mother nature acts.

 

[DrMike]

Got another pic about 12 hours later. Camera is still working somehow.

Well, if you wondered whether it was waterproof...

 

[Hunter26]

No kidding! I'm very impressed with that Tactacam!

RL338, the only Reconyx I ever bought died to water. The SD card survived and I got pics over two days of rain & the water rising. It got up to about half way on the camera & then died.

 

[JD338]

Well, if you wondered whether it was waterproof...

No wondering there Mike.
That's a full court press endorsement.

JD338

 

[Hunter26]

Another update; water is going down pretty quickly. This is 12 hours since the last photo. These are all "check-in" photos. Not sure if the motion sensor is working or not, but still can't believe the camera survived! The camera in question is a two year old Tactacam Reveal X Pro.

 

[JD338]

Another update; water is going down pretty quickly. This is 12 hours since the last photo. These are all "check-in" photos. Not sure if the motion sensor is working or not, but still can't believe the camera survived! The camera in question is a two year old Tactacam Reveal X Pro.

You should reach out to Tactacam and let them know how their camera handled the flooding.
Good/cool things could come from it.

JD338

 

[Hunter26]

You're not the first person to tell me that, so I probably will. Been loving them the last couple of years and now only have Tactacams atm.

 

[gerry]

Wow that's amazing your trail cam survived that. I'm in the market for some so this looks really good. Everything looks to be well watered now!

 

[Darryle]

Here's a similar situation several years ago here in Texas, first one is snow, think they are in the right order. I also drug that feeder out that morning nearly a 1000yds to high ground to keep it out of the water.

 

[Hunter26]

I have some trail cam pics somewhere, where it rained and flooded about one foot back in the same area and wood ducks were swimming by!

 

[Darryle]

The original Ridgetec cameras were the best they ever produced, they took a serious nose dive in quality when the Dual was released. That pictured Ridgetec is going on 6-7yrs IIRC and the most waterproof camera I have ever owned.

That Tactacam of yours is amazing, especially when it survived being under water for that long. When I cycle thru the last of the cheap Bushnell cameras, I am going to order a couple of the Tactacam cameras.

 

[Hunter26]

Update on the flooding, camera is still going strong. It's fogging up pretty badly during the day but the motion sensor is still working. As you can see, the water is almost completely gone. I emailed Tactacam and they said if I had any issues with it, they'd help me out.

Darryle, I've never had a camera make it as long as yours. That's pretty impressive!

 

[RL338]

It's fogging up pretty badly during the day but the motion sensor is still working.

Warm humid mornings my Muddy cameras fog up also.

 

[Darryle]

You can take a cheap camera apart and seal around the aperture, usually they are behind a plexiglass lense protector and they seep moisture.

On the Tactacam, I don't see how it's still functioning, I have had some that quit with heavy rainfall

You can take a camera and toss it in a bag of rice to dry it completely and then seal it up. But it is near impossible to get 100% with external ports for batteries, switches and antennas.

I have seen some that are completely sealed, no ports and they use rechargeable battery packs for power supply, this may be the future to combat multiple issues with these cameras, especially if you want someone to purchase them that plans on deploying them a good ways away from home.

 

[Hunter26]

I've had a couple Moultries die from rain and no longer use them. I've had very good luck with the Tactacams. One died for no apparent reason after two years and another died when a logger took the tree it was mounted on. All my others have been running great. I really liked a couple of Browning trail cams I had but they never lasted more than 3 or 4 years. The Reconyx took great pics but it's expensive and a flood killed it.