Someone please explain this

JPickett · Jul 25, 2021

Pulled my trail cam today that I set in a wallow a year ago today. All pretty normal stuff except this sequence. Notice the time on the pictures. First one nothing, then a bull with what looks like a flashlight in the background, then another bull all in the course of a minute. What the hell is that light? If it was a guy with a head lamp not only would the first bull bust but another one sure as hell wouldn’t come in.

kinda freakin me out..

link · Jul 25, 2021

Someone else's camera?

Outdoordan · Jul 25, 2021

Yeah, that'd be my idea. Another trail cam.

JPickett · Jul 25, 2021

I r got hundreds of night pictures and no flash. Or anyone on camera putting one up or taking one down. Left mine out for a full year. Now someone may have put there’s out before me but mine was up in early July

JPickett · Jul 25, 2021

Guess they could have left there’s too. I wasn’t looking for cans when I picked it up

Outdoordan · Jul 25, 2021

Yeah, aliens? Elk with flashlights? I don't know, the easy answer is another trail cam. Maybe some weird moon beam that had a spot to shine through the trees? Crazy.

Bluehair · Jul 26, 2021

I have lots of pics of people checking water holes at night. I suppose they think there’s a better chance of seeing critters at night.

But yeah, usually the critters leave. I wouldn’t want a trail cam with a conventional flash.

JPickett · Jul 26, 2021

Outdoordan said:
Yeah, aliens? Elk with flashlights? I don't know, the easy answer is another trail cam. Maybe some weird moon beam that had a spot to shine through the trees? Crazy.

aliens is what I'm thinking. i better stick to my road hunting coyotes. i may get abducted up there.

JPickett · Jul 26, 2021

i already gotta worry about cooper wanting to probe me and if SS ever gets a hold of me he'll turn me right over to that guy

Bigwiffy · Jul 26, 2021

It's the eyes of the other bull

hossblur · Jul 26, 2021

Cloud opening letting moonlight through?

JPickett · Jul 26, 2021

Bigwiffy said:
It's the eyes of the other bull

man i aint hunting laser beam eyes bulls!!

ruger1022 · Jul 26, 2021

My guess would be it is someone else's camera. I've got a few pictures that show the flash of other cameras.

MT_55 · Jul 26, 2021

It is for sure another camera. The 2nd bull was coming in from that direction but was blocked by the first bull in your pic. Then the next pic they are together. The reason why you don't have other flashes in your hundreds of other night pics is that the odds of this happening are..well.. Probly 1 in 5000 or 20000 or something. You didnt get a pic of the dude setting it up because that spot is likely too far away. Done and done.

DW · Jul 26, 2021

JPickett said:
man i aint hunting laser beam eyes bulls!!

Elk with "fricken Lazer beams attached to their head!"

Homer · Jul 26, 2021

it's a car on the road......get deeper in the woods.....lol

JPickett · Jul 26, 2021

my camera was hanging directly off my driver side mirror...

Bigwiffy · Jul 26, 2021

JPickett said:
man i aint hunting laser beam eyes bulls!!

Yes he had his high beams on

hossblur · Jul 26, 2021

Homer said:
it's a car on the road......get deeper in the woods.....lol

That was my first thought

JPickett · Jul 26, 2021

hossblur said:
That was my first thought

it'd have to be a pretty dedicated driver

DeerHunter53 · Jul 27, 2021

Someone trying to steal your camera they came in the dark with a flashlight to see where they were going.
Saw it in the day came back at night when maybe some camera's don't work so well.

Buckhunter1955 · Jul 27, 2021

I agree with Hossblur, I think it's the cloud cover opening and letting the moonlight through.

JakeH · Jul 27, 2021

It's another trail camera on the trees across the meadow the second bull is actually in all 3 photos that the initial bull is in. He triggered the other camera. You never seen anyone because it's to far away for your camera to pick them up.