I always try to take a video recorder with me when I go hunting, but its with our family recorder(small HD Sony). I get all kinds of warnings from my wife that I'd better be careful with it when I do take it. Lol
Nonetheless, I've got some great footage over the years of some nice encounters. I always try to get the kill on tape but never have. Something always happens I guess. I do/have managed to get some great video just seconds before I've killed a few nice bucks.
I remember back in the mid 80's my bro and I tried to video a kill. He was filming and I was hunting. We used one of those Sharp VHS recorders( fuggar was as big as a Stanley lunchbox) lol, anyway, he had the camera off to save battery life till prime hunting hours. It was around 1:00 in the afternoon when we climbed up our trees which were about 13 yards apart. About an hour later(2:20 to be exact) he whisper shouted, get ready....here comes a shooter! Hell, I was up and ready turned towards my bro and this dandy 150 gross perfect 10 stopped right between us near the base of his tree smelling the ground. We had rubber boots on but he was catching a whiff of something but not getting too alerted. My bro hadn't turned the camera on yet! He turned that sumbeech on and it made he most GOD awful racket that buck jumped out of his hide and blew outta thereto about 50 yards behind us before stopping and looking back. We both were upset but hey, that's hunting. A couple hours later a small 1.5 year old 8 point showed up and my brother watched me double lung him with the camera off. One of the most memorable days of hunting for the both of us. We often talk about it wondering if we'd only been better prepared and had that danged camera on before hat buck came in.
A good buddy killed that deer during gun season and he netted 145". That was considered a pretty big buck back then because there wasn't that many.