Here are some tips that I can give you from personal experience.
1. Keep the scent down! You will get more pics, and I have noticed that if the camera is left out for lets say 5 days, without anybody going to it, you will get more buck pics.
2. Trim all the areas where deer could possibly be. I have a bunch of pictures of bucks where they have had there head behind a branch. They just seem to have a nack for hiding those antlers
3. The best film I have used so far is Kodak Max 400 speed. The 800 speed gets the exact same quality pics from the Stealth cam, but, it is more expensive, so, that is why I say the 400 speed is the best.
4. Keep trying. If you get a roll of film of nothing but does in one area that you thought bucks used, keep the camera in that area. I set my one camera up and the first roll had ONE buck picture in it, the rest were doe. I knew bucks used that trail, so I kept it there. My second roll was about half buck and half doe. The last roll was pretty much all bucks. I can' t wait till Friday to go see what I got on it now.
5. Keep the camera facing ACROSS A TRAIL!!! If it is facing up or down the trail, you will get too many pics from too far away. I have made this mistake and got pics of deer that were 60-65 feet away. All you can see are eyes.
6. Don' t over-spend on the things you need. I have some cheap batteries in both my cameras, and, they have been going for around 3 weeks and the low battery light still hasn' t come on. I am using some Rayovak batteries that I got from Wal-Mart. It was 20 batteries for $6.88 or something like that. The Kodak film I got at Wal-Mart also, and I picked up 4 roll of the Kodak Max Versatillity 400 for $8.95!
7. The Stealth cams have a wide angle infra-red sensor and will snap a picture as soon as the deer crosses it. This means that the deer will more than likely be at the edge of a picture. I have gotten lots of pics of deer in the center, but, I have just as many of them right at the edge of the pics. It still gets most of the body in it!
8. On a trail, set the camera at one picture every one minute. At a feeding source, set it for one picture every four minutes. These have been the best settings for me.
9. MAKE SURE YOU POST PICS WHEN YOU GET THEM!