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other than running them all year. When do you put out your cameras and when do you take them down. Or turn them off. Would putting some out now help for next year. And then taking them out after turkey season. Or is it best to wait till after they shed and let them grow back. Before you put them out. This would be on public also.
 
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Would putting some out now help for next year.
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Yes, cams help you know what bucks survived the season, although survivors may not make it back to your property.

I used to run cams year round, but now usually start them in June or July and leave them up until end of February.
 
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I put mine out around July 4th just seeing wnats around. Mainly on salt licks and water holes. When velvet comes off I add several more cameras. Then around the end of September I add My cell cameras. I take all my cell cameras up by the 2nd or 3rd week of January. Then get my regular cameras up by the end of January. For us there's not many reasons to run cameras through those other months. But it isn't going to hurt anything either.
 
I have three basic ways I use cameras. First is year round on static sites like mineral, water, certain plots, heavy travel intersections, etc.

Second is seasonal such as scrapes, plots, rut corridors and pinches, mast trees, etc. I hang in late summer and take down after season.

Last but certainly not least are fluid. I might be scouting or hunting and find something I want a better look at. For instance I found a hawthorn apple I didn't previously know existed so I hung a camera to see when it dropped and if deer came to it. Or I might find a random scrape that pops up. Anything I normally wouldn't be monitoring but want a better look at. Those cameras can go up anytime and stay until I'm satisfied I got the intel I wanted.

IMO how a camera is used determines when it goes up and comes down. Everybody has their own specific criteria so there's no way I could tell anybody else how they should use a camera, nor could they tell me. And not every camera is for the same purpose. The information you're trying to gain dictates when you set it up and take it down.
 
killingtime 41 said:
other than running them all year. When do you put out your cameras and when do you take them down. Or turn them off. Would putting some out now help for next year. And then taking them out after turkey season. Or is it best to wait till after they shed and let them grow back. Before you put them out. This would be on public also.
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On private. I run mine all year for inventory purposes. I change cam locations from fall/winter in April before turkey season. I relocate them again for fall in Aug before velvet season. Now I do move them periodically between April and July depending on mineral sites and anything I find scouting. If I was on public it would be the same rotation.
 
Ski said:
I have three basic ways I use cameras. First is year round on static sites like mineral, water, certain plots, heavy travel intersections, etc.

Second is seasonal such as scrapes, plots, rut corridors and pinches, mast trees, etc. I hang in late summer and take down after season.

Last but certainly not least are fluid. I might be scouting or hunting and find something I want a better look at. For instance I found a hawthorn apple I didn't previously know existed so I hung a camera to see when it dropped and if deer came to it. Or I might find a random scrape that pops up. Anything I normally wouldn't be monitoring but want a better look at. Those cameras can go up anytime and stay until I'm satisfied I got the intel I wanted.

IMO how a camera is used determines when it goes up and comes down. Everybody has their own specific criteria so there's no way I could tell anybody else how they should use a camera, nor could they tell me. And not every camera is for the same purpose. The information you're trying to gain dictates when you set it up and take it down.
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Very good points.
 
Our cameras that are in known travel corridors and on trophy rocks go out in late June and stay out until the majority of bucks have shed...regular cameras equal about 1 camera per 70 acres...but during the rut we may add a camera on a scrape here or there on the property....but normally by the rut I'm not messing with cameras...I'm sitting on stand some long hours...not stomping around the property....by then I hope to have a good idea which bucks are using the property...but surprise visitors are always nice!
 

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