Trail Cameras – For Deer Hunting

Scouting For Deer With Trail Cameras

Using trail cameras for deer hunting has become quite popular for many good reasons. The serious trophy deer hunter and any whitetail deer hunter should have at least one of these included n their hunting equipment or hunting supplies arsenal. Scouting for whitetail deer with a trail camera will allow you to see what is traveling on and or through you hunting area. Do you have a trophy deer with a record book set of deer antlers on your hunting land? With one or more trail cameras included in your hunting supplies; you may know for sure.

Types Of Trail Cameras For Scouting

My advise is to go digital! After my first two weeks last summer on one food plot, I had 1196 pictures on a 1 gig. SD card. Now, if I would of have a film camera, do you think I would have missed a picture or two? With digital you can delete so easy, you just keep what you want. Yes, I had a good food plot; the trail camera took 3 pictures during each occurrence. The triggering was set for 5 minutes apart, and most pictures were of the same deer, I had about 10 -12 different whitetails coming in (I guess they lingered while eating their salad mix). And of course other wildlife had set off the sensor too. The point here is to spend your money on a quality trail camera and not film development. Also; use at least a 1 or 2 GB card as you may need it, if shooting video you may need 4 to 8 GB cards. Some new trail cameras now offer infer-red technologies for no flash at night. Some even now enable you to email your pictures back to you 24/7; those are spendy though. What the heck though; it’s our passion.

Hunting Land

Where to place a trail camera on your hunting land? How about where whitetail deer feed. Do you have a food plot to put one by? If you do, and your getting a lot of pictures, you will want to check it often. I suggest at least weekly like I do. But get in and get out. Don’t linger at your site. If you do; you may have a trophy deer with a large set of deer antlers nearby. Be discreet or you may spoke that trophy buck into some other deer hunter’s hunting land. Another place to place your trail camera would be where whitetail deer trails intersect or cross. Is there a natural funnel where deer travel through on your hunting land? Check out scrape lines and rub lines. If you set one up on public hunting lands you may want to cable lock it. Some new trail cameras now come with locking devices.

The Whitetail Deer On Camera

You may get some great pictures of deer antlers on trophy deer. But what is also fun about using hunting equipment like this and having a trail camera included in your hunting supplies, is that you will get great pictures of whitetail deer doing some funny things at times. Take a look at these 3 photo’s of this cute doe taken 30 seconds apart.

“Don’t Publish That!”

Your Hunting Equipment

Use your hunting supplies and hunting equipment to have fun. Were not always going get pictures of that trophy deer with a huge set of deer antlers running around our hunting land just waiting for us to start hunting. What is there today, may not be there tomorrow.

Using a good Trail Camera adds a lot of excitement to your scouting and deer hunting season.  Just the anticipation of one of these trophy bucks coming within bow range is enough to fuel your deer hunting passion.   Good luck and stay safe.

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