Looking for Camera Placement Suggestions

[Jmarth]

Hey Everybody,
I'm looking for some ideas on where I should place my two Moultrie trail cameras. Here's a couple pictures of the property.
In the first picture, the blue 4 pointed star is where I've seen two deer grazing around 8am while driving to my friends house. The red T is where I saw a turkey on the same day as the deer. The red P is a very large, mature, high producing peach tree, however there isn't much cover around it. The blue stars are along a creek. I crept in along there to try and call some coyotes after my friends lost a sheep, and I saw 6-8 deer beds along it, ranging in size from a single animal to the footprint of a car. I'm thinking of placing one camera on the opposite bank of the creek, and the second either on the peach tree, or in the mature woods on the north-west part of the property.

I'm told the neighbours to the south-east are a friendly old retired couple, and I intend to approach them for retrieval permission, with the hope of hunting permission next year. The nice thing about this property is that my friends live on site, and I will be able to crash on their couch when I intend to hunt, cutting out all drive time!

 

[Jmarth]

Oh, also, the crops in my friends field this year are just hay, to the south east is soy beans.

 

[Nick Grider]

I’d say that’s it’s probably a bit late in the year to have cameras over a food source. If it was me, I’d probably put one camera on a run in that north east corner where the inside cut of trees are, and I wouldn’t look at that camera until after the season. See what’s going on there during the pre rut, rut, and post rut.

Your second camera I would place on the tree line of the lowest elevation point of the property entering into the field. That’s where your mature deer will most likely stage and you’ll get an idea of what’s coming into the field after dark.