Interested to hear how you catalog or inventory the pictures you get from your trail cameras.
Have several trail cameras on private and public land spread over several different counties. Lots of scouting has resulted in many different parcels available to hunt. A good situation! Ending up with hundreds/thousands of pictures from many different locations.
(There are lots of threads on "which camera to buy" or "best cell camera" - but very few threads on what people actually do with all the pictures they get from those cameras! What do you do with the information, how do you use it, where and how do you store the pictures, etc.)
Have several trail cameras on private and public land spread over several different counties. Lots of scouting has resulted in many different parcels available to hunt. A good situation! Ending up with hundreds/thousands of pictures from many different locations.
- How do you keep track of the areas/deer that you get pictures of? (Store them, delete them, other?)
- How do you catalog the properties, pictures, and deer?
- Do you only keep records for cameras with daytime buck movement?
- Do you try to tie the pictures to the direction the deer are heading?
- Do you try to tie the animal movement to the prevailing wind on that particular day?
- Do you track this information in an Excel spreadsheet, or other information source?
- Do you look at pictures from the previous years to make plans for next season? (For instance, if you get a lot of pictures of nice deer from "cell camera A" on 10/25/2021 and 10/25/2022 - you would probably hunt that location on 10/25/2023, right? How do you manage that information over several months of each hunting season, over several parcels, with several years worth of data/information/knowledge? Or, maybe you don't?)
(There are lots of threads on "which camera to buy" or "best cell camera" - but very few threads on what people actually do with all the pictures they get from those cameras! What do you do with the information, how do you use it, where and how do you store the pictures, etc.)