Scouting and cameras.

[Iluvracks1359]

So when do you guys start your pre season scouting, setting out cameras etc.?? In the previous years I've always set.my.cams.out on July 4th weekend, but that's a long time, and I've learned all you are doing at that point is maybe inventory and not much more. However, since I do like to see them grow a bit, I am thinking I want to have them out by august 1.. or at least that first weekend of august. Honestly was gunna go this weekend but I would rather not go out in this intense heat.

[Bow sniper]

I like to keep the cameras out all year this year not seeing to many bucks at this time of year just like last year but come late August early September the bucks were splitting up and I had bucks all over the place 

[Jeremy K]

Put them out in the beginning of may this year ,thats common for me.  

[G-Man]

They are pretty.much done growing end of July and horns harden in August. I leave some up year round, most I just get out middle.of July as I hang stands

[NonTypical]

I put a few out at the beginning of July. I’ll be putting the rest out in the next week or 2. Just need a little break in the weather. 

[Northcountryman]

I’m gonna go and move mine around this coming week, gotta replace the batteries and find some new spots deeper in , also put one up next to my close stand 

[fasteddie]

I have cameras up year round . I enjoy the pictures . But , I know that as crops are harvested , the deer travel will change . 

[Team Hoyt]

I got 5 of my 9 cameras out this morning 

[Steuben Jerry]

My cameras have never been taken out of the woods since the day they were mounted. Some are over 5 years old.

I'll move a few around in September/October and leave them in their new spots until next spring. The following March or April can be a bit of a challenge to remember where I put them!

[TreeGuy]

Just put a few out last week. Will get the whole spread out this week.

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[BizCT]

I just leave them out Year-round. Just change batteries a few times per year.

[Robhuntandfish]

Mine go out this weekend. I wait til horns are formed. No sense in shortening the life span of the camera for doe pics.  Unless I am scouting new dirt. 

[BizCT]

10 minutes ago, Robhuntandfish said:

Mine go out this weekend. I wait til horns are formed. No sense in shortening the life span of the camera for doe pics.  Unless I am scouting new dirt. 

I hate doe pics. I delete them immediately!

[Robhuntandfish]

7 minutes ago, Biz-R-OWorld said:

I hate doe pics. I delete them immediately!

Where I hunt I know there are plenty of does so don't need a bunch of doe pics, but new dirt for sure like to see how many deer and where they travel. If I had bears around might leave them out to get pics of those.  But in the summer I will get 1000 pics of tractors on the fields tilling or planting or cutting. 

Plus the time I leave them out I can still get a good idea of the doe population

Edited July 29, 2019 by Robhuntandfish