I’m with Germ on this one. I feel like a trail cam taking pics while I’m not around would be synthetic (for lack of a better term) to the hunting experience. I’d rather walk through the forest as a beast, who uses skills instead of gadgets. Problem is, all the stuff I bring are gadgets too, we just all have our own feelings and lines to be or not to be crossed. Some with trail cams might not use a compound bow (like I do), and wouldn’t, because it would take something away from their hunt.

My neighbor uses trail cams all the time. He lives two properties over from me. He would say “I’m not hunting in the back yard, there’s no good bucks back there” and then “man I saw a monster”! He was looking at that thing so much, it dictated his actions and hunts. I told him not to ever tell me about what he saw on the camera. To me, it takes some of the magic away from it. Turns it into more of a procedure or something. I’d like to be wondering what may be on the way, rather than expecting a certain deer. Not knowing is cool I guess, to me. I’d rather look for rubs and scrapes and other sign. But hey, that’s just me; and I’m sick…