In almost 20 years of food plotting, I've NEVER seen a mature buck in a field during daylight hours. I've got a few trail-cam pics of mature bucks in the plots during daylight, but those too are very rare.

Sounds like your club's putting too much pressure on the deer.

We still see and kill some of our bigger deer in fields

Not sure what your definition of mature buck is but I have seen many mature deer in fields. One of guys I hunt with has 8 mature (130" +) heads on the wall that all come out of the same field in last 10 years. Each farm to its own though when it comes to deer pattern.

Tomahwak,

I've talked to quite a few people who have these cameras. I've seen the images, the video, and the video's "deer search" capabilities.

As a scouting tool--to see how deer are entering/exiting a large area IN DAYLIGHT--this camera has real promise.

But as a "trail-camera" for evaluating buck age, size and identity, it's virtually worthless. An image of a buck at 200 feet from the camera in only 1.3 megapixels isn't going to show you much at all, other than big antlers versus small antlers.

Yes I agree completely that distance pictures will be hard to determine such aspects of a buck. The point is you can see the deer from a long ways away. Getting vital bio info on the deer may not be possible when they are 100 yds away but your standard trail camera would never show you those deer at that distance because it only has 50 ft range to trigger. Now put these deer at 30 yds or closer with the plotwatcher cam and the details are very clear. Certainly clear enough to get info your looking for, not to mention the number of pics you would have of that particular deer at many angles depending on how the subject is moving around in the field of view. I normally erase the flash drive after viewing (only does and few turkey at house) because I'm still in test phase of camera. However when I get back to Knoxville and check it, I will post some pictures off it. And just so I'm clear...I'm all about the scouting potential (trails not the fields), not the clarity of pictures... thats just a bonus. Different strokes, different folks

Again, I've seen the pictures. They don't even come close to what I need.

Here's what I need (and this is from a new commercial trail-camera). Both of these bucks were about 30 feet from the camera:

Again, I've seen the pictures. They don't even come close to what I need.

Here's what I need (and this is from a new commercial trail-camera). Both of these bucks were about 30 feet from the camera:

We hardly ever see mature bucks in food plots. We counted all of them up from the last 10 years and it amounted to 4 mature bucks seen in fields on our property. Like BSK mentioned, we arent anywhere near farm country....strictly ridge and hollow hardwoods country. Point being, if you want to kill a mature buck in a food plot where we are, you have about a 1/5 of a percent chance at doing so. We only hunt food plots to take does. Where we are, you have to get off the fields a ways to kill mature bucks. Yes, we have gotten several pictures of them in daylight in fields, but not enough to make anyone want to sit over a field hoping for a mature buck