where do i hang my camera?

[bigbucks125]

i just got my first scouting camera for christmas and i wanna know where a good spot to hang it this summer. i dont have access to any fields..we own only hardwoods so i wondered if anyone could help me. where should i hang this thing?

[kooter]

i would do some scouting and find an area where a couple of good trails meet and put it up to watch all of them.

[bigbucks125]

we have quite a few dug roads that the deer use..would this be a good place to start? possibly put the camera at a "Y" in the dug road.

[muggs]

I always set them up off trails leading to and from a bedding area, in an area I plan to hunt.

[AdvantageTimberLou]

what muggs said!

[ILclimber]

The guys are right. I would try and hang it near the heaviest traveled area......ex. where many trails come together or even where the deer are entering the timber, or even exiting the property. Are there any fence jumps on your property. Near one of those would also work. Good luck!!

[Rhino]

My best luck was putting them on mineral licks. Some of our licks were set near converging trail systems while others were near fields. We actually made 18 different licks scattered around 3,000 acres. Between 2 of us we rotated our 4 trail cameras between the mineral licks before the season started last year. Once the season was under way we mainly used the trail cameras on active scrapes.

[rossman]

The purpose of a scouting camera is to get a better idea of what size bucks are frequenting the area. So pick out a trail which you think bucks are using and put it there. A heavily used trail is not necessarily a trail utilized by bucks! Find a trail that has old rubs or other buck signs on it, like llicking branches.

Use the scounting camera to learn the behavior of the big bucks you have, not just deer in general.

--rossman

[hoytguy08]

any major funnels will be good, and towards fall maybe on an oak ridge where most of the deer will be feeding........basically anywhere you would want to try and hunt