I’m curious to know from other hunter how to set up your trail camera. Please feel free to share pics and explain what your techniques are ie.,what time of day, scent control, flash vs. no flash, etc. Personally, I have been successful with scent control when I enter a hunting area, I try to make my camera runs at noon during preseason, Plus I always face north or south on a tree, sometime i climb one stick high and angle down just for security and dif style pics as well. I usually try to position early season cams on food or mineral sources. This first camera is a mineral source with a creek to the right and food source to the left with a man made trail in between. I’m def ready to go pull some of my other cards and ill snap pics of my setups there as well….

My deer cam pictures show two different woods, two different cameras and in the last two weeks I have numerous pictures of does that look like they will be dropping fawns soon. I always enjoy seeing the wobbly legged fawns on camera. Looked like bumps starting, and possibly velvet on top of them, but the angles weren’t right. In the second woods, there was no doubt. I think this is the same buck, but at 2 different times. Both pictures were this morning. There were some other pictures on this card from a week ago, and 2 weeks ago which appeared to have bucks starting to grow some antlers, but not good enough pictures to verify. The 2 pics i am posting, there is no doubt about it

I am pretty sure I have pictures of this doe with last year’s fawn in tow when the fawn was only a week or less old. Nice to see them doing well, and it looks like she is going to have a sibling or two to join the family.

This old doe with the black nose is unmistakable. She was on camera last year a couple times, then avoided it like the plague. Not as apprehensive with the Pregnant Deer Cam photos Never saw her from the stand. She would be a great trophy. Wise old girl. I think she had twins last year.

This is what we all like to see!!!

I think the two in velvet are the same buck at two different times. Slightly different position on the camera. Wouldn’t hurt my feelings if it is 2 different deer, but I think it is the same one.

I went out and set up two of my trail cameras for the last couple of weeks hoping to catch some turkeys going through (at least what I thought were) strut zones and feeding areas, and having absolutely zero luck getting toms or even jakes.

Now when it comes to hens, I am getting lots and lot’s of photos, but not a single tom or jake in two weeks of running the cameras. One camera I had in a bottom where we see a lot of turkeys late morning/early afternoon, the other on a small open area located in a hardwoods area where we have seen lots of strutters in the past. Both locations are producing hen photos, but no male birds. Is there anything different I can do as far as setups to find a male bird, or is it just luck and me not having any of it? It’s a little late in the season now to get help with this, but for next year maybe someone can shed some light on this.