How often do you check yours?

I like to check mine about every other day during the season. Where you're gonna be running yours, I'd check them once a week, at least.

once a week

Only when I hunt that area. I have 1 out 5 cameras out right now. Haven't checked it in 4 weeks. Checking cameras= pressure

1 X week to 10 days.



God Bless,
David B.

about once a week

if on food every time I replenish food. I try to replenish food when food runs out.

if just on a trail or scrape, every week or 10 days, or when walking by hunting in area.

About once a week, but no hard and fast routine.

Tell you what I see every year, and I think this ought to be teaching us something about deer behavior. Normally I put a camera out every year around mid August to early September. Feeding corn and rice bran, I'll start getting pictures within days. Even with me going in there AT LEAST once a week, sometimes even jumping them off the pile of corn/bran, I still get daylight pictures every day. Doesn't matter if it's a doe & fawn, or a batchelor group of mature bucks, they don't seem to be affected by my routine. They'll be there all times of the day and night really, my intrusion seems to make no noticeable difference, they come every day. Taking it further, not regularly, but often enough, I'll take feed in there and the next time I check the camera I'll have deer pics within an hour (or very soon after).

HOWEVER, it's like ONE DAY for no reason, I completely stop getting daylight pictures, and the bucks show up less and less. Now these deer don't "rut" till at least Christmas, probably even into mid-January, but this cessation of daylight pics starts about late Oct. or early Nov. There are two things that are different: 1) I have begun setting in a treestand in there, and 2) the daylight period gets shorter. I fully believe #2 has a FAARRR greater affect on deer than most people know about. I think half the deer behavior stuff we attribute to hunting pressure is ACTUALLY caused by deer's internal, subconscious response to the photoperiod. Or perhaps it's something else like seasonal food pattern changes...the deer have moved farther away on a different food source, thus I'm not getting the visits at the same time now. I don't know for sure, but I don't think deer are as affected by me intruding as we think...at least not me simply walking in to check a camera, or sitting in a stand and not educating deer. (But I'm hyper sensitive to pressure, I think shooting guns and gutting deer and walking around KILLS your deer activity)

Thats how I do it. When I hunt by one or walk by one on my way in and out.

I never make trips to check them. I usually have them on water xings or trails , or scrapes near my stand locations.

I've got a camera on corn that's been there since September and I check it about once a week.

We are only allowed to check a camera if we hunt the the zone where the camera is at. Some cameras on the back side of the property will only get checked 2-3 times during hunting season.

Once a week

Usually once a week, sometimes twice. Either when I am hunting the area or at night.

That's actually a really interesting point...makes sense...I think the key to checking em as well is wearing rubber boots/watch your scent spreading as well

Some places you just want to stop hunting cause all you see are those small scrub bucks on pictures!

Before season leave them for at least a month at a time. During i place them in places where i drive or walk by ( at least kinda close to it anyway) on the way to hunt a stand.

Do you want to see them on camera or in person?
If you dont have an idea of whats out there by now, oh well.
You leave your stink every time you check your cameras.
At this stage of the game my cameras are on my gates.