I have two on roughly 75 acres. We have a long season and I pull them rather early on. But for that month or so before it begins? So much fun to rush home with those cards!!!
I've got two primary properties I'm hunting. Behind my house, I've got 14 acres in a fairly suburban area and almost all timber. I have 4 cams up now and run about 7 cameras during the season. This sounds like a lot but you'd be surprised how many times I get a deer on only one of those cams and no others. This property is a pass through area where bucks just don't live but they show up between Halloween and middle of November to check our resident does. When I get one in there during these times they tend to stick around for 2-5 days or so. Last year was my first year on the place and through all the pics I got I learned a lot about how bucks travel the property when cruising through, I'd never have learned this if I didn't have that number of cams out. My second property this year is 135 acres, about 70 acres of timber, and right now I've got 7 cams on that place. I'll probably have 12+ on it by time season gets here. It's my first year hunting this place so I'm gonna cover it in cameras so I can learn as much as possible this year. I find when I have that quantity of cams, I'm able to not only see what deer live on the property, but I can also learn a lot about how the deer are actually using the place and how they move by putting together pics of the same deer on the same day from different cams. The trick is to check the cams in a manner that doesn't educate the deer or cause them to abandon the area. During season I don't check cams unless I'm already walking by that spot on the way into/out of the stand. I'll also be incorporating cell cams this year into the spots that I just can't get to consistently so that I'm able to connect a couple more pieces of the puzzle without actually burning spots walking into and out of cam sites.
