Originally posted by jjas: [b]So let's say you hunt in the morning and after you get down you check your cameras and one of them has multiple images of a good buck hanging out near a certain oak tree or an isolated food plot @ midday for a couple of days in a row, you wouldn't try to act on that?
That comment is exactly why I believe the point you are attempting to make is a farse.....because the chances of patterning a mature buck in such situations (after the velvet comes off) is much more fantasy than fact. I won't say never, but I would say EXTREMELY RARE.
I filter through thousands...read that again...thousands...of trail cam photos on a WEEKLY basis during the summer months...when mature bucks are most patternable. Over the course of an entire summer, I might get a couple dozen shots of mature bucks...with many of those being one offs. The vast majority of mature buck photos, just like the photos over scrapes during the rut...are taken at night.
If you would actually get out and try patterning a mature buck using a trail camera...during hunting season...it would not take long for you to understand how laughable your assumptions/accusations really are. [/b]
I can appreciate the placement of your last sentence....but it doesn't really address the overall use of game cameras by hunters and the point I'm trying to make.
Regardless...I was reading Indiana Outdoor news yesterday and came across this. It's a quote from professional hunter Ralph Cianciarulo.
"Opening day is always a hunter's best chance for success and our game cameras are the single most helpful scouting tool we have for patterning mature bucks and breeding-age does during the critical days and weeks before hunting begins."
Also...I notice you didn't use the second "scenario" I posted in your reply, which addresses not only camera use, but "real time" camera use during the season.
"Or if you had a real time camera and you are either headed to, or already sitting in a stand and your phone rang with a image of a buck headed to a spot you thought you could get to before he might. You wouldn't use that info to try and move on that deer?"
A situation very similar to this was posted on this forum last year by a member and I believe he killed the buck.
Finally, it's obvious we've reached an impasse, and perhaps it better to just agree to disagree and move on.
