FINDING 2024 TARGET BUCKS (Deer Inventory With New REVEAL 3.0)

Out here on the farm today and, uh, it's a beautiful day. It's actually been a hundred some degrees this whole past week, but it finally dipped down in the sixties this morning. So we're going to do a big farm day today. It's almost July. It's going to be into July when you guys see this video and July is like big deer month. We got insane growth. So putting out trail cameras, huge water holes, tree stands, food plots, prep at the end of the month for fall food plots. So July is a big deer month. We're kicking it off. Kind of fun. Tacticam, all new tacticams are coming out this week and they sent, this is a black box treatment. I have no idea what's in here. I do know what is coming out, but we might get some extra goodies in here. Once we dive into this, we're going to go over some new specs and I mean the trail cam game. We'll get into this a little bit. It's so diluted. There's so many trail cameras out there now. It was like a big grab. So many companies came up. I bought all of them. I really wanted to try them all. So we'll kind of go over some pros and cons of just kind of like the pains of selling your trail cameras. Some that are solved by this new 3.0 and more. So Tacticam reveal black box. Oh, thank you. We want to take a moment to express our sincere gratitude for your continued support and loyalty to the reveal by Tacticam. You trust in our products and services mean the world to us. Oh, thank you. Got some hats. We've got some swag. We've got some stickers, but the most important thing is this. The new reveal cellular trail camera by Tacticam Pro 3.0. There's two versions. There's the 3.0 and then the Pro 3.0. So similar to how the 2.0s were, there's a couple of different levels where there are two different levels in these. This is the higher version that has the built-in two inch LCD screen, but what I want to do is I want to open this up and kind of just do a quick little spec, but later on in the video, what we're going to do is we're actually going to put this out, we're going to set it up and then let it marinate for a few days before we got to post this video. So hopefully we do get some cool videos and photos out there. So let's open this up. So you can see there, that's the X 3.0 and then the Pro 3.0. So the X 3.0 is the other version, the slightly lower version with no LCD screen, but still incredible. Incredible specs, just like how they did it with the 2.0s. Boom. There we go. That's how the 3.0s are going to come. And there's less things to worry about in these packages, which is very, very nice. If you guys have ever set up trail cameras or especially if you get like two or three of them and you got to set them up and put them all up on the farm, it's like, it's a process and you got to like set them all up. But now you pop this out and there's no other hardware here. All we have, all we have is the strap. So the biggest awesome thing about this is our new retainer system for the actual antenna, which is phenomenal. It just kind of pops out. This is a very like rubbery, movable material. So it's not going to break. It's not going to crack. But the antenna is pre-installed. You pop it open and you can leave it out. And what I have heard from the team is since this antenna is enhanced from the last one, it even performs better. If you have pretty good service or really probably anywhere, what a lot of guys have been doing is they just have been running them tucked down and away. So you don't even have to worry about them popping up, a bird lands on them, you know, swings them around or whatever else. So I put a few out already like this and they've been working absolutely fine. So it's great to be able to tuck them away, swing it around. And this time it does swing all the way down and around. So the biggest thing with the old ones, I have probably a collection of them, is they crack off because they have no flexibility. So these have the flexibility and then also tuck them away for storage. I keep most of my stuff in this Yeti Go box right here, toss it in there and it doesn't get cracked. Peel off the camera sticker. I'll just kind of show the inside. This 3.0, we have the big LCD screen, which is very similar to before. As you can see, there still is an SD card slot in there, but SD cards are not required. Biggest pain points of cellular trail cameras, breaking off antennas, running out of SD card or SD card space, battery life, and then overall specs. They've constantly been getting better, but these specs are incredibly better. So internal storage in here, you do not need a memory card to work this. I'm not going to use them anymore because I'll get them sent directly from, you know, just online through the app. So there's no need for that. And then SIM cards. There's no SIM cards in this. It's automatically inside here. Wild. What's fantastic is it's built in for one, but in the past, what you had to do is select Verizon, AT&T, check the spot, be like, I don't have any service. Switch it to Verizon. Okay. I get service. This does it automatically. So it switches between all the carriers in the area. And what's incredible is sometimes there's tower outages. So let's say you hook up to Verizon, it hooks up to Verizon automatically, but the Verizon tower is down. It'll automatically switch and hook up to an AT&T tower, T-Mobile tower, whatever else, and automatically get back up and running. So that's insane. It's just a big time saver, a performance add. Top of that, we have incredible specs in this, which I'll riff through them here in a second. Man, the biggest pain points that I have had with these cameras, they solved, which is SD cards, the service problem, the antenna, and also software updates. So we're going to have automatic software updates. If they send out a massive software update, it's going to go right through the cell tower to the camera, auto update. There's no more switching around these SD cards. I know I have, like in the past, a couple cell cameras are not working right now because they just require an update, but you got to take them all inside, put in the SD card in the computer, download the software, put it back in the trail camera, download it. It's just a pain in the butt. So automatic updates, new body, new look. But as far as specs go, in the Reveal Pro 3.0, which is this one, the higher model, no glow flash, built-in GPS, and then these are the new things. New internal storage with optional SD card slots, so you still can if you want, and you still pull it. New on-demand video requests. The video request option is way easier, way faster. I've already done it a couple times. It's incredible. New improved image sensor. I've been sending 1080p video clips to my phone, and it's going to be incredible to include them in YouTube videos and everything and zoom way in, but we'll show a couple of those. New cellular firmware updates I've already talked about. New pre-installed antenna, which I've already talked about. Internal SIM card. New multi-shot. You can do five photos in a multi-shot, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. You can send all of them. You can just send one of them. So that's a great option. New live aiming in the app, so that's similar to what was before with getting on the Wi-Fi and then being able to look at your phone at the Wi-Fi while it's on the tree and reposition it. 4K photo quality, so photo quality's bumping way up. And then also what's bumping way up is just in your feed, the normal send photo in your feed before you HD it is way better. That's one thing I noticed right away. 1080p video, faster photo sends, improved battery life. The improved battery life is something that's really exciting, and what's going to be really exciting for some accessories coming up with this too. So new and improved. It's pretty much just like, what are our problems? What don't we like about the 2.0s? Okay, we're going to fix all those problems. So that's very exciting. I got a couple of these that we're going to put out, but we're going to do a water hole project today in a spot that I've really been wanting to put a water hole. I got some new earth blind water holes, which are insane. So we're going to do that. Put this out, maybe put a couple more out. We got some, we're like running corn right now, just trying to get some inventory of deer and boost up. It's actually some rolling hills feed that's not available yet, but we are have it. We do have it in all of our feeders. Roasted corn, roasted soybeans, and some other goodies are in them. So the deer have been strewing that, but we're going to go pull one of these bad boys out. You want this one in? No, I'll do this one first. Okay. We've got a couple of these water holes, but we're only going to put one out today, but I'm just transporting them. These things fill up with water so fast. I had them staged up somewhere, not in a barn and they filled up so fast. I couldn't even pick them up. We had to like get a couple of guys to dump them out. So we're going to store these ones in the barn and then we're going to go, we've got the skid steer on the way. We'll go put in one of these big boys and that's how we have the trailer. It seems kind of like overkill, but they're, I think they're like seven feet by seven feet. So they're huge, which will be great for holding water for deer. Little steep operation here. We call this spot the wood pile spot. There's an old water hole there, but it's only like a 50 gallon and it constantly is getting dried out. Especially in December, you just see deer like peeking in and looking at it and checking if there's water. So we're going to replace it with this big one. We actually moved the stand a little bit too to get our wind better. It was just not in a great tree and the wind was tricky. So we're going to doctor this spot up a little bit more and put in this giant water hole and just, it's right in the middle hole and it's bedding on a big ridge. So all day sit with like a west, west, southwest wind. It's good. If we got north winds, we can't sit it, but we got another stand 200 yards down. We're just literally right on top of the ridge and our wind will kind of blow off of the ridge, which will be perfect. The stand's up in that oak tree right there. See it? So right here, we just got like clover planted up top here and big trail coming off big TSI bedding there, TSI bedding there, TSI bedding there, TSI bedding there, TSI bedding that we've done all around us and just boom, stand, giant water hole now right off of the two track. So it'll be great. I'm looking forward to it. These are earth blind water holes. I think I already talked about it, but it's completely fiberglass and then this is real dirt. That's why it's kind of flaking off here, but that's all right. This is real dirt that's actually like glued onto here, like spray glued. So you see, we roughed it up a little bit just by transporting it around, but very, very durable. Once this is in, they say that even something as big as an elk can like walk down into here. So when water gets really low, you know, it's very gradual. So they'll walk right down into it and it looks like dirt. So it's not like that black tub. So they'll probably adopt to it just like this will be good. I'm kind of thinking I'm going to put it on a, on a diamond. I don't know. It won't be broadside. It really doesn't matter. Right there. You don't think? How do you think they're going to drink from, from the side? Well, it depends how deep you put it, I guess, technically all the way in the ground level. My, my guess is, you know, they're going to fly around here. They're going to fly around this corner, boom, like this, or they're going to, you know, hopefully you're going to kill them either coming to it or dipping away. And then if they're coming down this trail that we just made a little bit ago, big bunch of big TSI beds right there, they're going to come at it just like that. I'll have to just hinge cut this tiny little pop can tree. Just fine because we've got that big maple right there and then just a bunch of oak branches and everything will be totally covered up. Yeah. I like it. Let's go get the bobcat. You get all the way up top. That's where all the cuttings are on the right. That's, you won't miss it. Not only are water holes super great, like now when it's hot, well, it's been super wet so they won't be as good as if it was super dry, but great trail camera footage, photos, good inventory, along with during November, October when they're like running, rutting and they can come up, up on top of a ridge and get a quick drink. So I'm excited about this first one going in. We'll get the new 3.0 on video mode on this bad boy and it should be pretty awesome. You drive a tractor very interestingly. Do I? Well, if I do this, then I hit this because the shifter is broken and has to, this is multi-use. We use a tack cam strap to keep the shifter up because the shifter is broken. So that's why I normally would be doing this, but then it gets in the way. So I grab on it in the middle. It's right where it needs to be. So I kind of laid those down to mark it, but see the stand hidden right up there. It needs to be the same shape, roughly. You know, that's why I brought this to kind of fine tune it, but. I mean, just right at, I'll take that, dribble it back in, you can walk it around. Yeah. To get it to sit. Think that's good? Yeah. And that, that should be good. We just don't want dirt up over, you know, it's okay if it's like that. I'll just work my way around it. Okay, perfect. Thanks man. Buddy Joe came in, dug this out for us. We dropped it in. We've been under filling it. That's really important with these that there's just support all around the edges so that deer can walk down and just nothing happens. So we got it all packed in. We'll need to do a little bit of shovel stuff, but what I want to do is we'll fill it up just to kind of let it settle and it'll, you know, be under a lot of weight. So it'll kind of settle down better. We'll fill it in with the shovel, throw the new 3.0s up, make sure those are all good. I mean, this will be a pretty permanent trail camera spot. One will be here year round. So I want to make sure it's good. We got two big oak trees. We might do this one right here. Kind of up higher, but I'm not fully sure yet. Or if we got that one to deal with. We'll just do one or the other. I'm not sure. But I was part of putting this here to make sure it was a good tree to close. And we got a 20, it's probably a 22 yard shot. Leaking. Is it already going? No, it's just leaking somewhere. All right, moment of truth. Moment of truth. Here we go. That's all she wrote. I think it's 200. It's either 200 or 250 gallons. I forget. But a lot of water. I'm just going to kind of level it out around the edges a little bit more. Then we'll hang our camera and call it a day. We'll need to put some rolling hills. Probably clover just down around here. Oats would be good too, but oats will die. So plant clover down here every year. It'll be nice and green. We don't want any exposed dirt for midges or just muddy nastiness. So we kind of roughed up the clover we had down here. Some of it will probably come back. But put some more seed down, it'll be good. So ideally, I want to put it on this tree. Because that way's north, that way's south. So the sun's going to be just like this. We don't really want cameras facing the sun. So facing north. It's typically the best I like to do. I don't know why it wouldn't work out. But if it doesn't work out, we'll put it in that tree. Not 100%, but it looks like these straps are thicker. It might just be my eyes. That's what's great about these screens on these Pros, is you can just line them up right on the camera. Looks pretty dang good. Got to step off to the side. Maybe just a smidge. The worst thing ever in the entire world, you set up a camera and then it moves. So without breaking these straps, I really crank on them. And this isn't, see if it'll move. I kind of move it around. I want to do this one on video. So go down, picking video. Video size. Full HD. Video length, 15 seconds. Sensitivity, 7. No delay. And of course, we can change it all on camera. In case, for some reason, there's just a million deer, we can kind of tone it down. I like doing a check-in photo. Just make sure that everything's working. And hybrid setting check. So it does a settings check every time a photo gets sent, instead of once a day or instant. Instant really kills your battery. So, back live. Miss Caitlin Moss. We're good. I'm going to keep the antenna tucked down on this one. We're up on a ridge. There's plenty of service, so there's no reason really to bring it out and expose it, let a bird land on it or something. In particular, there's one deer that we call Powerline 10. And he lives right up here. So, we haven't been able to... Last year, Derek was in. He was trying to kill him. And saw him, actually, from this stand kind of cross over right here. So, it's kind of our little rework up top here just to try to better optimize it. Powerline 10, definitely one spot where we can kill him will probably be just a good, solid mid-60s 10 point this year. Should be 6. He's like 5 or 6 this year. If he's still around, we have him on camera. We haven't had him on camera yet, so maybe we'll get him on this camera for the first one. That would be pretty special.