Q IT’S TIME to deploy my trail cameras for deer season. What are your tips for trail-cam placement? — J. McClure, via email
A WHEN IT COMES to trail-camera placement, most folks think about the areas where they plan to place cameras — food plots, field corners, heavily used deer trails, scrapes, bedding areas, etc. Obviously, where you place your cameras is extremely important; after all, you can’t catch a great buck on camera if you don’t have a camera where he lives! But in this response, I want to focus on how you place your cameras in the field. This is almost as important as where you place them, and you can put this advice to good use no matter where your cameras are.
First, you need to think…
