Dave, I have both food plot/cams and no food plot/cams. I have shot bucks and does that I have pics of on both.

What I try to do is what Grant Woods suggests and that is try to do a deer survey in August. I use corn sometimes with a mineral site that I will NOT hunt over.

We have cams out all the time somewhere. I can pretty much recognize most deer when I am hunting them. Now pre-rut and rut will be different.