Sorry, but I'm going to call your comments for what they are...complete BULLSH*T! Once again, you have formed an opinion and taken a hard line on a subject you apparently know very little about.

Yeah, a trail cam on a food source is likely going to tell you the best time to be there is the first hours of daylight and again at dusk. You are going to get a ton of photos of does, fawns and small bucks feeding during normal feeding hours. What a revelation! Hail to the trail cam!

By "special" deer, I'm assuming you are talking about trophy quality animals? Have YOU personally ever attempted to pattern a mature buck? If so, were you successful in killing that buck...while hunting on his pattern? I have had some success patterning mature bucks....that is, until they lose their velvet. At that point, they become totally different animals. Been using trail cams for a decade now...and I have yet to figure out the pattern of a mature buck during hunting season using rare, maybe one-off trail cam photos of a particular animal....which were most likely taken at night.

If anything, my trail cams have stopped me from shooting deer. Basically, I use trail cams as an inventory tool. During the course of the summer, I keep trail cams on mineral stations. By fall, I have a good grasp on fawn recruitment and how many mature does are using the property (very important given the recent EHD outbreaks). This is great information when determining the need for antlerless harvest.

By then, I've also got a look at most of the resident bucks... but have learned those bucks may not be around come October. Again, after they lose velvet, the game changes. I will move my trail cams to scrapes on field edges (easy access)once those start showing up. Most of those photos on scrapes will again be taken at night. You aren't going to pattern a mature buck in this manner...but the photos may help you decide what NOT to shoot.

I don't own any real time cameras...but I won't say never. If I had an out of state lease...I could see that type of camera coming in quite handy....and as long as I'm not using it while hunting...P&Y doesn't care.

Trail cameras have not even remotely altered the way I hunt. They do help me determine when I'm willing to release an arrow....be it antlered or antlerless. How any of this creates a negative affect on "woodsmanship" is beyond me? I can't help but wonder what you think "woodsmanship" means?

Have a nice.....whatever.