You know your property best. Where do the deer hang out, come from and go to? Where do they feed, water, bed down?
The secret to effective trail-camera placement is picking those places on your property where deer are commonly seen or sign is always active. Consider these prime sites when assessing your property for camera placements:
• Field edges, especially spots in the corners and where different habitats merge.
• Food plots. Look for active trails coming into the plots from woods or cutovers.
• Travel routes. As you scout field edges or plots, pinpoint worn trails for scouting farther back into the thickets.
• Funnels. These are more narrowly defined travel routes maybe out of a field corner down through a creek or at the corner of two fields or habitat types.
• Road and trail intersections. Deer like easy travel routes, too. Inspect ATV trails, camp road meeting trails and obvious crisscrossing trails in the woods.
• Scrapes and scrape lines. This is active proof of a buck in the area, so these need to be monitored regularly.
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