I received an e-mail from Steve over at HuntOnly.com yesterday announcing a cool new feature of his site: Real time trail cameras. Check it out! I checked yesterday and saw 2 deer fighting (or just standing up) in one of the pictures. Images are updated every hour so you never know what you will see.

Here is the full press release:

HuntOnly.com brings you the latest innovation in Trail Cameras and Hunting Websites. HuntOnly.com and Smart Scouter have teamed up to bring you the “Real-Time Trail Camera Photo Gallery”. Our Trail Cam Gallery is updated every hour, 24/7 with the latest Trail Camera Photos from our cameras!

Maryland –June 15^th 2009 – HuntOnly.com brings its visitors the latest innovation in Trail Cameras and website technology. HuntOnly.com with the help of Smart Scouter Trail Cameras has developed a Real- Time Trail Camera Photo Gallery. The gallery is updated every hour 24/7 with the latest photos from the Smart Scouter Trail Cameras. To further our deer hunting efforts we setup Smart Scouter Trail Cameras on our farms to monitor deer and other game movements. When the cameras take a photo the camera automatically connects to HuntOnly.com and uploads the photo to the Real-Time Trail Camera Photo Gallery. No more watching empty video feeds or waiting hours for animals to walk into view. Our allery only displays photos of game animals and it is updated hourly with the latest pictures from each of our cameras. Our Trail Camera Gallery brings you the most up to date photos without all the waiting and having to be there at the perfect time that can come with watching live video feeds. The best of both worlds is brought to you by HuntOnly.com!

HuntOnly.com and our team of developers have finally made this idea a reality. The Real-Time Trail Camera Photo Gallery is officially online and our visitors can enjoy a Trail Camera Gallery that is updated every hour with the latest photos from the field! Stop by everyday to see the latest photos of the giant whitetails and other game animals on our farms. Watch the velvet bucks grow this summer and follow them into the fall with Real-Time updates 24/7.

Visit the Real-Time Trail Camera Gallery: www.HuntOnly.com/trailcamera

About HuntOnly.com

Huntonly.com was launched in July of 2006. HuntOnly.com is made up of a team of everyday hunters who are serious about the outdoors. HuntOnly.com has the latest hunting news, articles, field journals, hunting gear reviews, and more updated daily. The website is 100% FREE for all visitors. Membership is Free and every full article, photo, and video on the site comes to you FREE. HuntOnly.com currently has an active Hunting Forum for every aspect of hunting. HuntOnly.com provides the hunting information you need in an easy to use and easy to navigate website. If you don’t see the information you are looking for, the forums have thousands of threads all about hunting. You can ask questions, share stories, hunting photos, and more with fellow hunters from all across the nation. Stop by and join us, we are building a great online community of hunters and a wealth of knowledge for hunters from new to old.

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Pass It On – Outdoor Mentors is giving you a chance to win a gun every week for 52 weeks, beginning the first week of March 2009! Each ticket enters you in a weekly drawing for a new firearm! After 52 weekly drawings, all of the winning tickets will be put in the hat for a bonus drawing, guaranteeing that one lucky person will win at least 2 guns! A consolation drawing will be held for everyone that did not win during the weekly drawings.

Each week, a gun will be selected from the list of firearms being given away. Then a ticket will be drawn from the valid entries received.

Pass It On is requesting a $50 donation for each ticket. For a $100 donation, you will receive 3 tickets! To get your ticket, just give Mike Christensen a call at 316-290-8883 or email him at mchristensen@outdoormentors.org. To make an online donation please visit their website.

Pass it On will be giving away firearms from the following manufacturers. The average price of all of the firearms we are giving away is over $800!

• Benelli
• Beretta
• Browning
• CZ Firearms
• Franchi
• Henry Repeating Arms
• Remington
• Savage
• TriStar Sporting Arms

I originally found this info over at Got Hunts?. But wait! I didn’t find it first there! I found out about the post on twitter! Follow me or Cory on twitter.

Hunting is a waiting game. You sit and wait, hoping your game comes close enough for the shot. Something hunters overlook is the time AFTER the shot. Sometimes game does not drop immediately. Tracking is involved and if the tracking is at night tracking is going to take longer especially if your shot missed or just grazed the vitals. There may only be a spot of blood here and there. Hunters need to make sure that if they take that shot they have enough time to track down that animal whether it’s 10 minutes or several hours. Don’t take that shot knowing in ten minutes you have to leave the woods and come back later. Another hunter might see the wounded animal and fire on it, keeping it as theirs or the wild animals could get it or even worse the wounded animal could wander out onto the road. As you plan your next hunt, think about timing. Try not to stay in the woods until you have to leave. Be responsible and be safe while hunting.

Buckmasters Tip of the Week: It Won’t Be Long Now; It’s Time to Tune

Whether you use fixed-blade or mechanical broadheads, tuning your bow will make your arrows fly better. If you have access to a paper tuning device, by all means use it. A paper-tuned bow will shoot almost any broadhead with minimal, if any, adjustment.

If you can’t use a paper tuner, shoot your arrows with a head identical to one you’ll be using in the woods. If you’re still hitting the kill zone, pat yourself on the back and get ready to hunt. If your broadhead-equipped arrows group differently from your field points, however, you have several options.

If the difference is only slight and the arrows are grouping well, just adjust your sight pins until you’re back in the bull’s eye. If you see a big difference and/or the arrows are not grouping well, it’s a good idea to make some tuning adjustments. If you can’t see your arrows well as they fly, have a friend stand just behind you to watch your arrow as you shoot.

If the arrow is porpoising (tailing left and right) on its way to the target, you’ll need to move your rest in or out until you get clean arrow flight. If the arrow wobbles up and down on its way to the target, you need to move the nocking point OR adjust the rest up or down.

Once your arrows are flying smoothly, adjust your sight pins and you should be all set. Something to keep in mind as you make bow adjustments is that most things on your bow should look normal and fairly “square.” In other words, when looking at your bow from behind, nock an arrow and check to see that it looks straight as it protrudes from the bow. Next look at it from the side. Your arrow should come off the string at just over 90 degrees (slightly nock high) and can even look perfectly square if you’re shooting a string loop.

While there’s no doubt that tuning for broadheads is a pain, it’s one of those essential chores that many bowhunters skip. Those same hunters often end up paying the price with a miss… or worse.

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I just found this site and signed up and I thought I would share it. It is called Gnats Unlimited. It’s a relatively new site that connects hunters and fishers and outdoors people together. Click on the more link for a video of catfishing the hard way from Gnats Unlimited.

Buckmasters Tip of the Week: Handle With Care

I had the good fortune to take a nice buck last season. I thought I kept the buck’s shoulders and neck off the ground as I dragged my 160 1/8-inch, 270-pound deer out of the woods. To make a long story short, the fur on the buck’s right shoulder was worn down to its skin.

Luckily, the taxidermist was able to fix the area. Remember to be careful and use a deer cart or the floor mats of your vehicle to protect the deer’s hide while dragging it out of the woods.

–This week’s tip was submitted by U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Rickey A. Monroe, Kirtland AFB.

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It’s tragic accidents like this that remind me safety first. I can’t imagine the deep grief that the fathe must feel after an accident like this. Read story here.

KY Afield needs Kentucky dove or geese hunters to fill out this 20 question survey. Do your part!

Kentucky Elk hunters have until April 30, 2008 to apply for an Elk permit for only $10.00. For more information go to the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife website.

Tip of the Week: Take a Stand

The most effective way to hunt white-tailed deer is to take a stand in a productive spot and just sit there quietly. Mobile stands such as treestands and tripods are practical because they allow you to adjust to deer movements.

Stands work for a number of reasons. We play a cat-and-mouse game with whitetails. Deer are using all their senses to detect danger, and we’re using our senses — mostly sight — to locate them. What generally attracts your attention to a deer? Movement. Your eye is attracted to the movement. When you are moving through the woods, it is the movement that the deer sees as well. If you sit perfectly still, a deer can look right at you and not recognize the danger.

In this game, whichever side is moving is at a disadvantage. That’s one reason sitting still is so effective. When you hunt from an elevated stand you’re also getting your scent above the deer. Just don’t get the idea that being 20 feet up a tree makes you invisible. Deer will look up, and they will see you in a treestand.

Remember, air currents will move your scent down to the deer, particularly in the afternoon when the temperature is cooling and the air currents are moving downhill. In the morning, your scent generally rises.

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Tip of the Week: Fix Wavy Vanes Without Refletching

Plastic vanes are great, but one of their drawbacks is the tendency become wavy if the fletchings are coming in contact with your rest, or if you shoot through your target. While it’s good to know if your fletchings are coming in contact with your rest, it’s also a pain to have to refletch every time you get a wavy vane.

Believe it or not, these wavy vanes often can be straightened with a hot hair dryer. Put a hair dryer on its hottest setting and heat up your wavy vanes. Often they will straighten up in the hot air and be good as new.

Don’t Give Up On A Good Scrape

Most hunters like to hunt near fresh buck sign, and what could be better than a hot scrape? Unfortunately, hunting a scrape can be a real hit-or-miss proposition. After all, it’s a good possibility that the buck is checking/refreshing its scrapes at night. Rather than spending day after unproductive day on stand or (and more likely) spending one or two days and then giving up and moving somewhere else, get into the buck’s head.

Help the buck make that daylight mistake by juicing up the scrape and staying with it. Sprinkle in some buck urine and some hot doe pee as well. Make him think he’s really missing something throughout the day. Watch the scrape carefully to make sure the buck is still refreshing it. If he’s not, then it’s time to move.

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