How many trail cameras are needed to pattern whitetails?
Filed under: Ask Grant, Trail Cameras
Question
After watching your video about using cameras to pattern deer (GDTV 66), I am interested in how many acres your facility is and how many cameras you use to track the deer. I really liked your example of deer movement patterns. Can I, with a limited budget for cameras, produce the same results with one or two cameras? Or did you have cameras at all the locations at the same time?
Keep up the good work!
Jeff
Jeff,
I like to use as many Reconyx trail cameras as practical given time and budget constraints. The Proving Grounds (my place) is 1,500 acres and I try to use one camera per 100 acres when doing an official camera survey and I continue using them to scout with throughout the season. Using rechargeable batteries has greatly reduced my operating costs! I have other projects where we “leap frog” cameras as we don’t have a camera per 100 acres. We get usable data, but not as good as using a camera per 100 acres simultaneously.
Growing Deer together,
Grant
