Also, burning a spot, overpressuting it, etc., that is a part of actual hunting. Being in the woods and learning. I don't need a camera to tell me to not hunt scrapes, no matter how great they look or the sign around them. I have hunted them enough and have killed a few nice bucks near them, using them or just happened to be in the area, but in my hunting experience, bucks don't frequent them in the daylight. I still say having the camera there (yes much is learned from them) but to me the camera is doing the hunting, the hunter is just following what the camera tells him. I will say another reason I don't care for them is because it is a large number of great bucks I see that people get pics of, but not only do they not kill them, they never see them. I am sure cameras have saved many bucks lives and I do my best to stay out of where I hunt unless I am actually hunting.
And there are 2 sides to the following, you get a great buck (a giant, a record class animal, the best you have ever seen, etc.) on camera, so you pass up everything but that buck and you never see "the buck". Possibly passing up what would be great bucks to kill. And then you kill a buck but you get a bigger deer on camera after killing him and then you feel bad because you did not kill the biggest one (yes I have heard this many times).
I like to hunt and to me that means actually spending time in the woods, whether the time is small or I get tons of time, but I prefer what is NOT known and trying to figure the deer out, rather than depending on a camera. I will say the "cameras" can be incredible "hunters".
