I got to start carrying a camera with me.

[Mo. Huntin]

I was leaving from a turkey hunt and had a bobcat cross 100 yards in front of me in a cut cornfield with a kitten in its mouth.  She walked nice and slow till she got down wind of me and then she walked a little faster.  Very cool.

[Bowhuntah]

But if you had a camera that would not have happened. That's just how it works.   :D

[bowhunterfrompast]

Cool  

[BRONZ]

I recommend the Olympus Stylus series.  Drop-proof, water-proof, low profile.  I started carrying one for moments like that.

[Bowmania]

If I take my bow, I take my camera.  What happens if you shoot the animal of your life??? Are you going to take a picture of it in the back of a pickup?

Years ago when I first met my now best hunting buddie he asked me how many animals I killed with a bow.  I had no idea.  He told me he had a picture of every one AND HE HAD ALL EXCEPT ONE MOUNTED.  He's a taxidermist.  His kill total is around a hundred.  All are bow kills.  Never shot a compound.

[centaur]

I always carry a camera, except for the time my wife and I were taking a short hike and saw a mother bobcat and 5 kittens at about 10 yards, that watched us for a couple of minutes before walking slowly away    . One of Murphy's laws had to be in effect.

[sidebuster]

A camera is an indispensable item when hunting.

[The Whittler]

What is nice now is how small the cameras are, and how great the pictures look.

A little bitty camera that fits in your shirt pocket and can take pictures like a professional and you can put them on your computer and share.

[GMMAT]

I had my camera with me, yesterday (no time for a photo).  I caught a glimpse of four legs heading up the side of a drainage feature I was sitting behind.  I made a few soft yelps and grabbed my bow.....thinking I may get a shot at a yote.

If you'll check the photo.....where the tip of my BH is.....that's where the bobcat got to before I moved and he bolted.

He got to 12 FEET.

 

[SELFBOW19953]

My problem with a camera is, I need a view finder.  If it only has an LCD screen, I need glasses on to see it.  I need reading glasses to see the camera, but can't see to shoot with them on.  Sometimes I can't find my subject on the screen.

[Bill Skinner]

I used to carry a camera in Brandon's (LONGBOWKID) pocket.  We got a lot of pictures of stuff five minutes after the deer had left, two or three minutes behind the hogs, that kind of stuff.  We did manage to tear up his camera though.  Bill

[VA Bowbender]

I've started carrying a camera but I always have my Blackberry as back-up and it works pretty well up close.
Here's an example:

 

[lucznik]

Originally posted by sidebuster:
A camera is an indispensable item when hunting.

I would go just a bit farther than this.  A camera is an indispenable item. Period.

I always have at least a little point-and-shoot camera in my pocket.  Life sends too many unexpected opportunities to be found "flat footed."

I figure that having the camera offers no gaurantee that I will always capture the exact image I wanted, but not having one is a definite gaurantee that I won't.

[LA Trapper]

Bronz,

Tell us about the Olympus cameras.  What model do you recommend?

I am thinking the same thing about carrying a camera.  What brand and model do you all use?

Billy