Happy Trails - Digital Article
One of the featured hunters is a biologist who gains subtle clues from his cameras that the rest of us would simply miss. Another hunter actually keeps charts and graphs based on the information he gets from his trail cams, and uses that to track buck activity on his land.
If you hunt deer, you probably use trail cameras, but certainly not like this. Or at least, not yet.
This hunter is fanatical about keeping records of the deer activity revealed to him by his game cameras. Follow his methods to put one on the wall this season.
Trail cameras are not just for taking whitetail snapshots for the deer camp family album. These handy camera devices originally designed for those “gotcha deer moments” have grown up, matured and advanced technologically to the point that they are now considered essential equipment for landowners, game managers, wildlife biologists and white-tailed deer researchers, as well as deer hunters.
Today, digital trail cameras are used to collect vital information on deer. These sophisticated cameras are now used effectively for conducting herd surveys, game population estimates, profiling specific bucks, deer movement trends throughout 24-hour periods and a myriad of other practical uses for deer hunters.
