Phil,

I scout about 25 square mile in Pa and have 8 trail cameras out. (Mostly Mountains) Almost all of the nice buck ( 8 points or better) I've scouted over the last couple of years have not been consistant in their patterns. I'll get most large buck on camera every 5 to 10 days if that. When I first purchased these trail cameras my thought was I could pattern a buck to help decide when and where I wanted to hunt. What I've learned it is very difficult to pattern large bucks if not impossible. If you could pattern every buck they wouldnt last long enough to get big. Its a great tool to determine what area to hunt but trying to pattern them is a different story. My advice would be find a big one, hunt the best trails try to figure out their travel direction (trail cameras), and never hunt when the wind is bad for that stand. This has been my experience in the mountains it may be different in farm country.