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Move your trail cameras?!

Pre Season I usually leave them up for 2 to 3 weeks to pattern an area, however during this season I have been moving them weekly as I hunt putting them over fresh sign and am having good luck with it.

What do you do per season and during?
 
Well behind my house I leave them in the same area the whole season due to having a limited number of places to hunt on 36 acres... I do have a few that I will put up if I have some fresh sign show up.. Mine are mainly on trails and travel areas though we're the deer move through.
 
During the fall, ever week - 2 weeks. It just depends....some real/mock scrapes will continue to have alot of action. When the action decreases, I move them. But as long as I am seeing new bucks and the type bucks I am looking for, that camera will sit there. When you get off of scrapes, the cameras tend to move around more.

During the summer, I will put one on each of my salt licks and leave it from the start of August till end of September.
 
monsterbuck07 said:
Move your trail cameras?!

Per Season I usually leave them up for 2 to 3 weeks to pattern an area, however during this season I have been moving them weekly as I hunt over fresh sign and am having good luck with it.

What do you do per season and during?
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I do the same thing you do. every time i find a new scrape i put my trial cam over it and see what size the buck is.

but right now i got it at the house because i seen some trespassers on my hunting land. so i figured it would be a good ideal to bring out of the woods to be on the safe side.
 
JCDEERMAN said:
During the summer, I will put one on each of my salt licks and leave it from the start of August till end of September.
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I do the same, but I only leave them on salt for the month of August. The first time I visit them in September, I move them to non-baited locations.


During the fall, ever week - 2 weeks. It just depends....some real/mock scrapes will continue to have alot of action. When the action decreases, I move them. But as long as I am seeing new bucks and the type bucks I am looking for, that camera will sit there. When you get off of scrapes, the cameras tend to move around more.
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Very similar to JCDEERMAN for non-scrape set-ups. I don't have enough cameras to monitor every food plot I have at the same time, so I usually rotate cameras between food plots weekly or bi-weekly. I will monitor old skidder trails for a week or so before moving the camera to a different old skidder trail.

However, once scrapes start to appear, a camera may stay on a given scrape for 2 months. I have a couple of traditional scrapes on my property that are used heavily by every buck in the area, and leaving a black-flash camera on each of these traditional scrapes is a must.
 
My biggest problem is remembering where I put them...does anyone have a good technique they use to keep up with them .
I was running 15 to 20 cams ..and was having trouble finding some of them ,I cut down to about 8 cams right now.
I think I still have a J10 fuji out there somewhere I set out in August ...someone may have stole it ...but for some reason I think it is out there somewhere.
And I have found out you can have to many cams ,I am seeing much more now that I have cut back.
 
Good time Charlie said:
My biggest problem is remembering where I put them...does anyone have a good technique they use to keep up with them .
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Make a map. Update the map every time you vist. Honestly, that is the best way, but you must teach yourself to update the map religiously.
 
I had that same issue. This year I started using the map program on my iPhone and dropping a "pin" on the camera locations. It gets me close enough for the old memory to kick in....which takes longer and longer these days!
 
I have 6 that stay on food plots in the same exact places year round, 365 days a year. Ill get pics of the same mature bucks from antler development to antler drop at those same locations over and over again with white flash. I then have quite alot more that I move around to scrapes, salt licks, logging roads, etc, etc. I usually keep on in my pack to just in case I see a spot I want one while Im hunting or messing around.
 
Good time Charlie said:
My biggest problem is remembering where I put them...does anyone have a good technique they use to keep up with them .
I was running 15 to 20 cams ..and was having trouble finding some of them ,I cut down to about 8 cams right now.
I think I still have a J10 fuji out there somewhere I set out in August ...someone may have stole it ...but for some reason I think it is out there somewhere.
And I have found out you can have to many cams ,I am seeing much more now that I have cut back.
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Get the "Cabelas Recon Hunt" app on your iphone. Very cool app that has a lot of detailed mapping features. You can even download maps from home and use on a tract regardless of whether you have a signal or not. I store all my stand and camera locations on it. It has a ballistics chart, bloodtrailing "track", waypoints, etc.
 
BSK said:
ROUGH COUNTRY HUNTER said:
i leave mine in one place so the deer are used to them and it works real well
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Do you use black-flash cams?
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BSK,i have a older bushnell that has been on the same tree from july to april for about 5 years strait,i get alot of pictures and videos.it is like they pay no attention to it anymore,and let me add that i do not hunt there,i use the area for a sanctuary
 

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