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