Trail cam strategies

[Karl]

How are you guys running your trail cams? I've got a few set up on trails, but I'm not getting the intel I need...should I be focusing more on food sources or bedding areas this time of year?

 

[Karate_kid]

You gotta stop wasting precious SD card space on doe butts! Right now, the deer are trading their soybean summer buffets for acorns, which means their travel routes are shifting. Ditch those main trails and put your cameras on the pinch points, those narrow saddles or fenceline crossings that force every buck in the zip code to walk past your lens. Get in, hang em high and angled, and get out

 

[Smasher]

yeah you absolutely need to stop checking those main trails, @Karate_kid is right, the movement's shifting, so focus on those transition areas between the new fall food, like acorns, and the bedding thickets..also place the camera high and angled down on a scrape for maximum buck intel

 

[TheHound]

I’d shift a few toward food sources, @Karl . Deer are patterning hard on feed right now. I usually keep one near a trail, though, just to catch movement between bedding and feeding

 

[BearBio]

Set mine up in the backyard for security reasons with motion lights! Got 1412 pictures of squirrels and 186 of my pointing griffon watching the squirrels, PICK CAREFULLY!!!!! Oh, and one raccoon eating my tomatoes!

 

[Unshaven2897]

Point the cam away from the sunlight. Maybe I am using old stuff.