southernhunter
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BSk , what do u charge ?
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Hollar Hunter
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BSK said:
Thanks! That's what I thought just kinda hard to believe.
BSK
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southernhunter said:
Running a season-long unbaited camera census is my most expensive service, because of the huge number of days I have to be on the property and working in the field (I check and move all cameras weekly for 3-6 months). If I told you what I charged, you would probably have a heart attack! But for a full 6-month program, my fee would approach 5 figures.
Shed Hunter
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BSK said:
People really pay over $10,000 for you to put cams out? Wow!
What is the largest deer you've gotten on trail camera?.. from your property or a clients.
Shed Hunter
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This one probably has me beat this year too. I seen him one time bowhunting.
Shed Hunter
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Never seen this one.. nothing special but mature.
BSK
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Master Chief said:
Not over that but approaching that. What can I say, some people have more money than sense
In TN, 170s. Anywhere, several over 200.
Shed Hunter
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BSK said:Master Chief said:
Not over that but approaching that. What can I say, some people have more money than sense
I'm sure those people don't bother you a bit lol
Maybe I'll be running cams for people after I get my wildlife biology degree!
BSK
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Some people enjoy spending money (and have a lot of it to spend). Some people take pride in spending whatever it takes to have the best of everything. I like working for those kind of people.
TheLBLman
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BSK said:Some people enjoy spending money (and have a lot of it to spend). Some people take pride in spending whatever it takes to have the best of everything. I like working for those kind of people.
Would also add that some people have several thousand acres, and we're not talking about doing a deer inventory on the typical Middle TN family farm.
BSK
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I knew you would see the reality of it Wes.
When you think about it, it really isn't that much per day over a 6 month period. For a larger property, it will take a day and a half to two days per week to drive to and from the property, check each camera, swap cards, and most likely move every camera. Then download all of the pictures onto computer, and assess every picture (potentially thousands of pictures per week), entering each picture's data (location, time, date, what's in the picture) into databases, identifying every buck in every picture and enter each buck's data into databases, and finally analyzing all that data.
Next subtract your expenses for purchasing and maintaining cameras (batteries are not cheap), as well as gas to and from the project. Lastly, divide what is left of the fee after expenses by the 40-50 work days you spend on the project over 6 months. What it comes out to is income per day that is pretty close to what someone making 30-35K per year makes per work-day.
When you think about it, it really isn't that much per day over a 6 month period. For a larger property, it will take a day and a half to two days per week to drive to and from the property, check each camera, swap cards, and most likely move every camera. Then download all of the pictures onto computer, and assess every picture (potentially thousands of pictures per week), entering each picture's data (location, time, date, what's in the picture) into databases, identifying every buck in every picture and enter each buck's data into databases, and finally analyzing all that data.
Next subtract your expenses for purchasing and maintaining cameras (batteries are not cheap), as well as gas to and from the project. Lastly, divide what is left of the fee after expenses by the 40-50 work days you spend on the project over 6 months. What it comes out to is income per day that is pretty close to what someone making 30-35K per year makes per work-day.
Southern Sportsman
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This above deer and another one came to wish me a Merry Christmas this year, but I was duck hunting on the same farm at the time.
BSK
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Nice bucks!
Shed Hunter
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Wes Parrish said:BSK said:Some people enjoy spending money (and have a lot of it to spend). Some people take pride in spending whatever it takes to have the best of everything. I like working for those kind of people.
Would also add that some people have several thousand acres, and we're not talking about doing a deer inventory on the typical Middle TN family farm.
Good point. How many cams do you set out on 1000+ acre farms, bsk?
I can also see the expense adding up for you. Even the initial cost of cameras would be high... To top it all off, its gotta be boring looking through all of those monster buck pics
BSK
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Master Chief said:Wes Parrish said:BSK said:Some people enjoy spending money (and have a lot of it to spend). Some people take pride in spending whatever it takes to have the best of everything. I like working for those kind of people.
Would also add that some people have several thousand acres, and we're not talking about doing a deer inventory on the typical Middle TN family farm.
Good point. How many cams do you set out on 1000+ acre farms, bsk?
I would want at least 12. 15 would be better.
I can also see the expense adding up for you. Even the initial cost of cameras would be high... To top it all off, its gotta be boring looking through all of those monster buck pics
The boring part is not the monster bucks. It is trying to decide if a particular pictured yearling spike is spike #18 or spike #34. Spike #34 has slightly more sweep to his cowhorns...
The really, really boring part is entering all the data in the databases. Picture #4,053 has two does and a fawn in it. Picture #4,054 has two does and a fawn in it, picture #4055 has two does and a fawn in it...
The fun part is analyzing the data. How many unique bucks are there and what is the buck age structure? How is the age structure different this year than last year, and the year before? When was each buck first picked up on camera? Is there a pattern to when bucks on this particular property "show up" and "disappear?" Is there a pattern in the days each individual buck is photographed? What's the average gross score of each age-class of buck? What percent of bucks are showing up year after year?
Shed Hunter
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BSK said:Master Chief said:Wes Parrish said:BSK said:Some people enjoy spending money (and have a lot of it to spend). Some people take pride in spending whatever it takes to have the best of everything. I like working for those kind of people.
Would also add that some people have several thousand acres, and we're not talking about doing a deer inventory on the typical Middle TN family farm.
Good point. How many cams do you set out on 1000+ acre farms, bsk?
I would want at least 12. 15 would be better.
I can also see the expense adding up for you. Even the initial cost of cameras would be high... To top it all off, its gotta be boring looking through all of those monster buck pics
The boring part is not the monster bucks. It is trying to decide if a particular pictured yearling spike is spike #18 or spike #34. Spike #34 has slightly more sweep to his cowhorns...
The really, really boring part is entering all the data in the databases. Picture #4,053 has two does and a fawn in it. Picture #4,054 has two does and a fawn in it, picture #4055 has two does and a fawn in it...
I can imagine. Especially when its 1000 pictures of the same deer.
BSK
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Exactly. But playing with the data is a lot of fun. At least it is for me, but then I love data, data, and more data.
