Home on the Range #064: Moultrie Mobile Edge Pro – Late Season Videos

We have discussed at length how deploying cellular trail cameras can be extremely beneficial for innumerable reasons with some of those being livestock management, wildlife surveillance, and property security. It can assist you in hunting, maintaining the animals that you own, and even be a primitive security system for trespassers. One of the biggest reasons that people will get cellular trail cameras like the Moultrie Mobile Edge Pro are for the media they capture – both photos and videos. I have never used or owned a trail camera that was capable of taking videos so I was excited to see videos pouring in for the 1st time on the Moultrie Mobile Edge Pro. Let’s see what the Moultrie Mobile Edge Pro cellular trail camera captured for me, and how I can use that data to my advantage hunting in the future. Let’s dive in!

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Late Season Videos – Moultrie Mobile Edge Pro Cellular Trail Camera

We discussed last week that if you take down your cellular trail cameras at the end of hunting season you could be missing a lot of cool stuff that is occurring on your property. One of the coolest things that I have seen this winter is potentially a weasel running across one of your chopped corn fields. Could this be a squirrel? You take a gander and you decide. I believe it is a weasel because of the “galloping”/running motion. Yes, squirrels can appear to run like this, but a squirrel typically looks more like it is pouncing and bouncing; whereas, weasels will have a gallop to their gait. You need to watch the first 3 seconds of the video very closely and watch for galloping/bouncing eyes.

While I was able to harvest a very respectable 9-point buck this year, I knew that there were older and larger whitetail bucks on my family’s property. Like mysterious ghosts in the night, many of them disappeared during the rut, but a few have come back to our surprise and survived the MN deer hunting season. Hopefully this broken-off 8-pointer lives through the winter and comes back even bigger next year.

This gorgeous 9-pointer was a bruiser as well because its antlers are quite beat up with potentially a few broken off. He is a very respectable buck and will only come back bigger and hopefully with more mass next year. A great potential target buck for archery season before a lot of the firearm seasons come into full swing.

Aside from all of the whitetail deer hunting Minnesotans do, we love to turkey hunt as well. We have Eastern Turkeys in Minnesota and in this video you see a winter flock of 15 hens and their grown-up chicks from this year. That will bode well for me when I go turkey hunting next spring in April or May.

We have seen a lot of this fork buck on our property because he visits our salt licks and additionally really enjoys licking our cameras. A juvenile buck that definitely isn’t camera shy and we will likely be seeing a lot of in the coming months and years.

This is probably one of the neatest videos we recently captured on our Moultrie Mobile Edge Pro cellular trail camera because we have 5 does and doe fawns all in one camera shot. This leaves us optimistic that a lot of deer survived hunting season and we have healthy numbers of both does and bucks to keep the herd strong and growing.

Final Thoughts

I absolutely love leaving up my cellular trail cameras year-round because it is exciting to see what has survived hunting season, and you get to see peculiar things like 15 turkeys in one video or a potential sneaky weasel in the night! Plus, you can pattern deer to certain areas, times of day, and Moultrie gives you additional feedback like date, time of day, temperature, and moon phase in all of your photos and videos. I am very pleased having used the Moultrie Mobile Edge Pro for the past couple of weeks.

One of the greatest conveniences of living in the day and age that we are is the access and low cost to technology. So, why not put all of that to work for us in the form of learning more about the areas that we hunt and call home. For all of those reasons, that is why I love Moultrie Mobile and their suite of products. In the coming weeks here on “Home on the Range,” I will share some photos and videos that I have collected as well as how it is going using this new cellular trail camera. As always, let us know all of your thoughts about Moultrie Mobile, cellular trail cameras, and the new Moultrie Mobile Edge Pro in the Comments below! We always appreciate your feedback.

Adam Scepaniak