Anyone here NOT run trail cams? Im kicking around the idea of giving it up and selling my 3. With the cost of batteries and extra time spent in the woods educating deer it don't hardly seem worth it.
Master Chief said:I love them, I've never killed a deer I have pics of though.
CAW said:I have 3 farms...
I have patterned bucks using specific areas and killed them as if they were on a schedule. I have gained a lot of knowledge about each farm that I own.
Public land rat said:i use them. i keep up with what days the deer were moving the best and try to figure out what influenceed them to be more active. also helps me pass does and younger bucks just knowing there is a bigger 1 around. use them for information, not scouting neccesarily.
Master Chief said:I love them, I've never killed a deer I have pics of though.
BirdDog123 said:My advice would be to put the cam in the woods and let it stay until the batteries go dead. The biggest problem guys run into when using trail cams is checking them every weekend and the deer patterns you instead of the opposite.
BSK said:CAW said:I have 3 farms...
I have patterned bucks using specific areas and killed them as if they were on a schedule. I have gained a lot of knowledge about each farm that I own.
And that's probably the difference. In farm country, or anywhere with considerable open ground that deer must avoid during daylight to survive, deer (and older bucks) are more patternable. In Midwestern farm country, deer and even mature bucks are shockingly patternable.
But in big woods enviroments, deer are not very patternable, as they don't have patterns of movement.