I have often thought of putting up a security camera pointing at the food plot on the hill. It would be easy enough to set up and add to my security system at my house, just have to dig in a pole to put it on for a better view. I have too many mice so I would bury it a couple inches down in conduit. You can fast forward the last 24 hours and easily see a deer to back up the footage and check out what it was. I am not sure the night time videos would be great at longer distances though.
4wanderingeyes I could be wrong because my security system takes coax, not Cat5 so I was focused on that type but I think you can run them further using coax cable and even further going with RG6 coax. I was looking at PTZ (pan tilt zoom) cameras with night vision. I will look for the info again for accurate info (it has been years since I looked this up) but with RG59 it was around 700 feet, with RG6 it was like 1,00 feet but with RG59 and an amplifier it was something crazy like 2,500 feet, the amplifiers I was looking at were spendy and I don't need to go that far.