Poaching and lamping
Night visitors with lamps, dogs and rifles work land they scout in daylight. Unwatched gateways and rides are the invitation.
Shooting Estate & Gamekeeping Security Cameras
A shoot's most valuable assets live in the least connected places on the estate: release pens deep in the woods, quads and feeders in far barns, and miles of private track that anyone with a 4x4 can find after dark. Solar 4G cameras give the keeper eyes on all of it — pens, gateways and rides — with night-time alerts straight to the phone in the pocket.
26WSolar panel included — sized for UK winters
64GBLocal storage included, no cloud subscription required
4GMulti-network SIM: EE, O2, Three & Vodafone
24/7Adaptive recording with person & vehicle alerts
What keepers are up against
Rural crime on estates is organised, mobile and mostly nocturnal. By the time tyre tracks are found on the morning round, the visitors are long gone.
Hare coursing
Coursers in 4x4s cut fences, flatten crops and film it all for money. It is fast, destructive and notoriously hard to evidence without cameras.
Release pen interference
Months of rearing sit inside one wire fence in a quiet wood. Damage, theft of poults and gate tampering can undo a season overnight.
Quads, trailers and feeders
Keeper's quads, UTVs, trailers and feed bins are exactly the high-value, portable kit rural thieves travel for.
How solar 4G cameras work across an estate
Each camera is self-contained — solar power, multi-network 4G, local recording — so coverage follows the risk across beats, not the wiring.
- Cover the ways inMost trouble arrives by vehicle. Cameras on the main track gateways and known access points record every arrival, with vehicle alerts the moment something turns in after dark.
- Watch the pensA camera on the ride outside a release pen watches the fence line and gate. Site the solar panel at the wood edge or a clearing with open sky, and the camera looks after itself.
- Alerts to the keeper on dutyPerson and vehicle detection pushes clips to the CamHipro app at any hour. The head keeper, beat keepers and the estate office can all carry the same view.
- Evidence the police can useTimestamped footage of vehicles, plates and faces recorded to the camera’s local card — exactly what rural crime teams ask for when coursing or poaching is reported.
Built for how a shoot actually runs
Keepers already do the rounds — the cameras make the rounds continuous. An alert from the far gateway at 1am tells you whether tonight is a fox, a lost walker or a 4x4 that has no business being there, before anyone sets off across the estate. And because footage is stored on each camera rather than a cloud contract, a multi-camera setup across beats carries no monthly fees beyond SIM data. For the wider picture on what actually deters coursing and lamping, see our rural crime guide.
Syndicate shoots fund cameras the same way they fund poults and feed — shared across the guns, protecting the season everyone has paid for. Estates with holiday cottages, fishing or livery on the same ground can run every camera in the one app; see our rural homes and fishing lakes pages for those setups.
The same cameras earn their keep in daylight too: checking a pen gate is shut, watching for dog walkers straying off the footpath in release season, and keeping an eye on the feed store between visits.
Keep it lawful and neighbourly: point cameras at your own land, tracks and pens — not public rights of way or neighbouring ground — and add CCTV signage at estate entrances. Report coursing and poaching incidents to your force’s rural crime team with the footage; that is what it exists for.
The right kit for an estate
Solar for pens, gateways and rides; the powered zoom camera on the yard or lodge where mains exists.
No mains power
Solar 360 Mini
The keeper’s camera: self-powered on a gate post or ride-side pole, connected over whichever network reaches that corner of the estate.
- 3MP pan-and-tilt camera with person and vehicle detection
- 26W solar panel and 15,600mAh battery — no mains supply needed
- 64GB memory card included, expandable to 256GB
- Unlocked, with a multi-network SIM covering EE, O2, Three & Vodafone
Mains power available
Mini PTZ
On the estate yard, kennels or shoot lodge, where mains power runs and optical zoom reads a vehicle the length of the drive away.
- Powered 4G pan-and-tilt camera with optical zoom
- Continuous power for constant, detailed coverage
- Local recording with person detection
- Same CamHipro app and UK support as the solar camera
Already have cameras that just need a connection? Our multi-network streaming SIMs work in any unlocked 4G camera.
Estate camera questions, answered
Will it work in woodland with no power?
Yes, with one siting rule: the 26W solar panel needs open sky, so mount at a ride, clearing or wood edge rather than under full canopy. The camera itself then runs from its 15,600mAh battery year-round.
Can it alert the keeper at night?
Yes. Person and vehicle detection sends clips to the CamHipro app the moment something moves — a gateway alert at 1am reaches the duty keeper’s phone in real time.
Is the footage useful against coursing and poaching?
It records timestamped video of vehicles, registrations and people to the camera’s local card — the evidence rural crime teams ask for when incidents are reported.
Can several keepers share the cameras?
Yes. The app runs on multiple phones, so head keeper, beat keepers and the estate office can all view live feeds and receive alerts.
What does it cost to run across an estate?
SIM data per camera and nothing else — footage records to each camera’s included 64GB card (expandable to 256GB), so there are no per-camera cloud subscriptions.
Put a watchman on every gateway
Self-contained cameras for pens, tracks and yards — installed off a quad in an afternoon. 30-day guarantee, UK support.
Buy with confidence: every 4GCCTV camera comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee, an 18-month warranty and free lifetime support from our UK-based team.