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2017 Trail Cameras and Noobie Advice!

I am a big camera guy and the more the better. I love using the browning cameras or moultrie. The key with cameras on heavy pressured public, and I'm from louisiana and coonass down here are serious about killing so I know pressure, is to use the cameras to hunt for next year not the time you put them out. I leave mine out for months at a time and set them up high, 8' or higher usually, and let them run in place you either want to see or plan on setting up to hunt in the off season. I have manage to kill some during the season by checking but I usually either set them up in the rain or check them in the rain. It mentally helps me knowing there is a stud traversing the area.
 
With out a doubt my #1 inventory and zeroing tool are cameras. I am running Browning Dark Ops most of the time and by far it is the best bang for the buck out there IMO. Like with any tool, you have to have a clear strategy on how to use them to produce the results you want. half my cameras soak for 6-9 months to hunt NEXT season. I pout them in areas I have a couple nice 2 1/2 or 3 1/2 year olds that I plan on hunting next season or two. The other half I use to take inventory (see what made it through the season alive) and then if I don't know that buck well I try to walk them back towards his core area and learn as much as I can without ruining the spot. No other sign, outside shining or actual observation, gives you full confidence how old the deer is/are and what he/they has on his/their head.
 
I went with the theory that more cheap cameras are better than a couple of expensive ones. I have 7 now are use them as a group to canvas one specific area at a time. It really is good to see where the family units travel and where the bucks travel.
 
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