Outdoors: Trail cameras are useful tools to scout the land where you hunt

Trail cameras have been a useful tool to scout the land you hunt for a good while, but the thrill of checking out the pictures from those units is always an exciting moment.

If you have never utilized this method, it can be a fairly inexpensive way to figure out what size deer you have on your property and which areas they routinely use. As a result, you will have a better chance to pattern the deer and then position your stand where you have a greater chance of success.

In the offseason, you can photograph nearly every deer in your area as they come to mineral licks and feeders. Once the season begins, change the cameras to places in close proximity to rubs, scrapes, food plots and game trails. As a bonus, you will probably also get pictures of other animals like bobcats, raccoons or coyotes - and you might even get an up-close look at a trespasser.

Trail cameras do not guarantee success, but they make your hunting more enjoyable - especially when you know that there is a quality deer using the area you hunt.

It is a good bet that if you get regular pictures of a particular deer, that animal is going to continue to hang around the same area; assuming that the food and water supplies stay the same and that the area has a good population of does (especially during the rut).

In talking to expert hunters and preserve managers, they seem to believe that mature bucks don't visit the same scrapes every night, but will continue to come back to those areas once or twice a week. A lot of big deer will be harvested within 200-300 yards of a scrape that is being used regularly and within about 10 days of a trail camera picture being taken of the deer.

In order to have the best scouting report possible, it is a good idea to run your cameras all year long.

The wintertime after the season is over is a good time to get a picture of mature animals, because they will probably s

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