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Tips for Using Your Day 6 PlotWatcher Trail Cam

Day 6 Outdoors

Columbus, GA – -(Ammoland.com)- The Day 6 PlotWatcher Time-Lapse Video Camera takes the guesswork out of hunting by recording daytime game activity around potential hunting locations revealing the best time and place to hunt.

You can view the footage using the free GameFinder software, which allows you to watch an entire days’ video in just a few minutes. When you watch the video, it’s as if you’ve sat in that location all day long.

For tips on using your PlotWatcher, check out these helpful videos at www.day6outdoors.com.

Day 6 PlotWatcher Camera

Here are a few additional tips from the Day6 staff that will help you get even more useful information from your camera.

• Set the camera up to review possible stand locations, fields, roads and power lines. With the PlotWatcher, you can view animals that would normally be out of range for other trail cameras.
• Use the camera to pinpoint entry and exit spots, directions of travel and game activity so you know exactly where to place your stands.
• When possible, position your camera facing north or south to prevent the sun from backlighting your subject and making it a non-descript silhouette in the photo.
• If you set the PlotWatcher in open areas such as fields, food plots, clear cuts, power lines etc…, set your camera to take footage every 10 seconds, which is sufficient to get great, informative video. If you set up the PlotWatcher in thicker cover, choose every five seconds to double your chance of getting great pictures of the animals you seek.
• Try placing a Plotwatcher camera at another hunting location while you hunt. Then you can check the camera when you leave to find out what happened in this other location while you were away. The camera can help you pinpoint hot spots much quicker than hunting them by yourself.

For optimum performance and to preserve your camera battery’s life, use a 4GB ReadyBoost USB to download your video to your computer.

For more info, check out www.day6outdoors.com.

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Michigan DNRE Shooting Ranges Help Hunters Prepare for Fall Hunting Seasons

Michigan Department of Natural Resources

Michigan --(Ammoland.com)- With the start of the fall hunting seasons, now is the time for hunters to sight in their bows, rifles and shotguns at one of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment’s staff-operated shooting ranges.

The DNRE oversees six shooting ranges in southern Michigan, including the Rose Lake Shooting Range in Bath (Clinton County); Sharonville Shooting Range in Grass Lake (Jackson County); Island Lake Shooting Range in Brighton (Livingston County); Ortonville Shooting Range in Ortonville (Lapeer County); Bald Mountain Shooting Range in Lake Orion (Oakland County) and Pontiac Lake Shooting Range in Waterford (Oakland County). An archery range is not available at Island Lake.

During October, Ortonville, Pontiac Lake, Rose Lake, and Sharonville ranges are open six days a week, closed Tuesdays. From Nov. 1 – 15, the ranges are open daily.

Hours at Ortonville and Pontiac Lake ranges are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Rose Lake and Sharonville ranges.

Range fees at Ortonville and Pontiac Lake are $4 per day for each shooter age 16 and older. Children under 16 are free. Rose Lake and Sharonville have no fee. The Bald Mountain and Island Lake ranges are operated under contract by Michigan Shooting Centers, LCC. Please contact Island Lake at 248-437-2784 and Bald Mountain at 248-693-0567, or visit their website www.mishoot.com/ for hours and fees.

For more information on DNRE operated shooting ranges, please call the ranges.

The telephone numbers are:

• Bald Mountain: 248-693-0567
• Island Lake: 248-437-2784
• Ortonville: 248-627-5569
• Pontiac Lake: 248-666-5406
• Rose Lake: 517-641-7801
• Sharonville: 734-428-8035

Hunters are encouraged to check out Ortonville’s new 3-D archery range and Bald Mountain’s new sporting clays course. Please contact the ranges for more details.

Shooters are reminded to bring eye and ear protection and approved targets with either a bull’s eye pattern or a depiction of legal game. Shooters under age 16 must be directly supervised by an adult.

Information about the DNRE shooting ranges and other public and private shooting ranges can be found on the DNRE website at www.michigan.gov/shootingranges.

The Department of Natural Resources and Environment is committed to the conservation, protection, management, and accessible use and enjoyment of the state’s environment, natural resources, and related economic interests for current and future generations. Learn more at www.michigan.gov/dnre.

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