I'm getting ready to set some of mine out too. I'm trying to locate an area where I can get a shot from my trail-cam from above, looking down at the monster,at a lick.

I think that would be an interesting angle,one I haven't seen before.

I wonder what had that big 'ol boys curiosity aroused. He was lookin'at something of interest!

bought my first 2 cameras 2 months ago, put them out right away. checked after 1 month. got alot of deer pics at 1 location and a bunch of turkeys at another. my lease is 3 hrs away, which i guess is a good thing cuz i'd be checking them all the time. very addicting.

I'm always amazed at what hides in back yards and small wood lots. We pass up some great opportunities just under our nose. Take a look at the photo of my neighbor's daughter and her first buck on my profile. She took the deer 200 yards from my back deck. Not a world beater, but a nice mature buck that I'd never seen before!

Antlers should be about as large as they are going to get by early August. I have gotten some nice pics from early August forward. Velvet comes off around the first week of Sept. I have seen a few small bucks still in velvet in mid September during Kansas' ML season.
Place a block of cattle mineral in a shady thicket in an out of the way place. Aim the camera about a foot above the lick and about 15 ft or so away. You don't want the rising or setting sun to hit your lens. Avoid trails, roads and footpaths or your camera will likely be stolen.
Do not hunt over the lick. Deer pretty much quit using mineral by early Sep anyway.

Great Pic! We have about 8 cameras out on our 1100 acres at present and have gotten some interesting pics thus far. The most interesting is a series taken over 30 minutes of two young racoons playing with what appears to be a frisbee. We have searched the area and they evidently took it with them!
Our true camera survey will take place in the last 2 weeks of August as the bucks are preparing to shed velvet. We use 1 camera per 100 acres and place the camera based on habitat type.I.E. if 20% of the habitat is forest then 20% of the cameras should be in forested areas. Not only does this allow for an accurate census, we are able to get a reasonable sex ratio once we weed out the corn hogs and other duplicate photos. This works well for scouting as well as my father was able to capitalize on the pictures and arrowed a nice 157 inch 10 pt the first week of bow season last year.

thinking my self too put some camras out to see the new up incomers to the heard, & to see how big the older buck are getting. no matter what I just love the excite ment of whats going to be on the pics, fawns, does, bucks, turkeys, squirles, bird, ect. I can't wait!!!!