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Precautionary measures for checking cams

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MObowhunter10

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How many of you all spray down in scent free spray, and walk over 100 yards to your trail cams with a special entry/exit route to get to it? Or do you just drive up to the camera, with the clothes you've worn all day on, without worrying about scenting up the area?
 
MObowhunter10 said:
How many of you all spray down in scent free spray, and walk over 100 yards to your trail cams with a special entry/exit route to get to it? Or do you just drive up to the camera, with the clothes you've worn all day on, without worrying about scenting up the area?
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I do nothing go straight in and out, I also don't use anything when hunting and have success I don't know if the deer just get used to the smell year round or what
 
Roll up to it on the ranger, 4 wheeler or my truck. Swap cards and keep rolling. Don't even shut the machines off. The deer in the area are use to the vehicles from checking cattle and checking crops and pastures.
 
I only put my cams in areas I drive past on normal farm usage paths or put up only when doing something to a path. Most of my cams right now are near the roads so I can literally go 30-50 yards in and check em. It's only getting deer at night but works fine for inventory. My cameras are rarely, if ever, placed where I am bumping deer because I placed a cam in XYZ location and creates more intrusion. That's me though. Keep pressure to minimum year round (yes, even in summer), don't get hooked on constantly going in spooking things to check and place them in easily accesible areas. Like above, (I like it!!) I have a lot of "drive thru" cams... Stuff right off of path or 2 track I can drive past, roll the window down and swap the cards.
 
All of our cameras are vehicle accessible, unless its real wet or they are located near a tree stand. The ones near a stand only get checked if we are hunting that particular stand.
99 percent of cameras are checked with a vehicle that the deer are used to. Anything from a fourwheeler to a Tutu
During the very late winter we know exactly where the deer are bedding so we usually haul corn in with a tractor if there is a lot of snow or just with a truck or fourwheeler.
 
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