When to put out cameras

[killingtime 41]

With the antlers off for the most part now. What time of year to put out cameras. To get the best buck intel. I was thinking July or so. This is a far walk. So don't really want to check cameras and have no antlers to go off of.

 

[megalomaniac]

That's what I do... mid July is when we put out cams on salt licks

 

[JCDEERMAN]

Same - Mid-end of July. Over salt licks and field corners

 

[BSK]

I run cameras from the first of August until mid-January. You can run them any time, but the big problem with early summer is the bucks' antlers are growing so fast that week to week you may not be sure if two buck photographs are the same buck or not.

 

[redblood]

mid july for me

 

[rem270]

I always put out on July 4th. Started doing it many years ago and just kind of kept the tradition alive.

 

[PickettSFHunter]

I just keep them out year round.

 

[Ski]

Depends on location and purpose for me. I run some cams year round but most I put up when I'm doing fall plots or pre-season scouting. I do the velvet hunt so there are a few properties I run cams on all winter & summer long so I can get a feel for whether there's a buck I want to hunt or not. And It's fun watching them grow from nub to full rack. While many of them are pretty consistent, not all of them are. Lots of the older bucks are still really scattered, erratic, and solitaire. Not near as easy to pattern and hunt in velvet as a lot of folks proclaim. 3yr olds yes. 5yr olds no. Otherwise most of my cams go up after the bucks are hard horned & dispersed. I do it same time frame as fall food plots and pre-season scouting.