Trail Cameras: How often do you move them

I have tried a different tactic this year. Keeping my cameras out of the woods and in the fields. How often do you move your cameras in the summer? Every time you check? Every couple times? Never?

I'm trying to gain a good knowledge of bucks and their early season patterns on my properties with only 2 cameras. I wonder where they enter the fields the most and at what time and where the exit and what time.

So, do you move cameras? Why or why not?

 

On my 9 acres, I have the deer trails and patterns pretty locked down and they don't really change. So because of that, I typically don't move mine, I end up buying a new one and adding to the collection . Which is why I have an old junk camera that is about 8 years old and doesn't even provide a timestamp or temperature.

 

I have 2 trail cameras for 40 acres... And one of those stays on a mineral site. I look for main trails and tracks along the field edges and I move the other camera around until I get a good amount of pictures on it.

 

Spring and Summer my cameras are over mineral sites.

Early September I move them to field edges where trails enter the field or heavy creek crossings exist.

October see my cameras move again to scrapes. Usually those close to a known bedding area.

November they move again to known transition/funnel areas between a food source and doe bedding areas.

December they move back to fields and cold weather food sources.

 

I've thought about moving one out of a field and moving it to a creek crossing. Maybe add to the bag of knowledge.

 

Whenever I find a better spot, some we leave in the same spot all year


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That is what I did last year.


I might give it a go this year and just let the camera sit for a week or 2 and then when I go to check it then change spots. I'm fearful that if I continue to use the same spot to check a camera then the deer will associate that spot with my scent and stay clear. So by moving them around the field I'm keeping my scent minimized in a central location and I can see different aspects of the field.

 

I very rarely move them put have been known to add a couple new ones :D

 

cameras will get moved if they arent getting the pictures i want.

 

The only time we move a camera is if it isn't producing pictures. If we are getting a couple, the camera will stay and we will just place a new camera up else where. We usually give a camera a week "trial".

 

I wish I had unlimited access to more cameras... maybe I could get better at hunting the spot on the spot and then and rack up more
140.s more often ...l you got a dream job bub! envious here for sure!

 

^This^ I never move mine unless I have to. Had a big tree fall in front of one once. Other than that, I buy a new one if I have another area I want to check out.

 

some of mine stay in the same spot all the time and i move some around every so often.

 

This! I just add more when I start finding sign or put a stand in a new spot. Of course to do that, you have to keep buying cams!


Blessings........Pastorjim

 

I would have about 20 cameras if I would by one for every time I found a new spot I wanted to keep on eye on haha Maybe one day this will be possible.

 

Black Friday sales (online)! We also have quite a few of those Walmart $40 cameras, that work rather good. I believe they were Wildgame Innovations.