When creating food plots to enhance the wildlife habitat of a property, the first few things you need to do is come up with an initial strategy, select your sites based on this strategy, and perform soil tests on those sites.

StakeOut's Trail Camera Mounting System comes in three main models -- Screw-it, Stick-it and Strap-it.  Each has its pros and cons, but there is no doubt that this product has made it much easier to set up and move trail cameras around on a property.

Beginning with version 1.7, a “Suggest a Stand” feature was added to W.I.S.E.  This feature retrieves the weather forecast for your entered zips and suggests which stand you should hunt based on the trail camera images and observation data you have imported into W.I.S.E.  Download W.I.S.E. Version 1.7 Now

Trail cameras are easily one of the greatest technological innovations in the last couple of decades within the hunting industry. Unfortunately very few hunters realize how much information these tools gather, especially when it comes to patterning deer activity.

Most hunters who use game cameras only use them for one thing—seeing how big the bucks are on their property. They will set a game camera over bait, check the camera every week or so, and if a big buck shows up on the camera, they will probably end up putting a stand nearby.

Turkey season doesn’t start for a few months, shed hunting hasn’t started yet and next year’s archery opener seems like a lifetime away.

What can you do now?

If you’re anything like me, you think about being in the whitetail woods year-round. There is one tool that you can use throughout the year that can help you be more successful when hunting season rolls back around: That tool is the trail camera.

Hunting whitetails during the late season brings a unique set of challenges that we don’t normally encounter through the rest of the year. During the early season, shot opportunities were abundant and I passed on lots of deer. All those forgone opportunities now seem imaginary as I sit watching empty deer trails while scrambling squirrels tap dance on my last good nerve.

Scent control is a big topic of conversation amongst hunters around the world. This is a specific part of hunting where “common knowledge” has really changed in the past few decades.

As a bow hunter, I have to pay a great deal of attention to the details regarding my scent in the woods given my required close proximity to the deer. But all hunters stand to benefit from a persistent scent control strategy.

Many deer hunters say that they have too many does on their property, but do they really know?  And if they do have too many, do they have an idea of what the excess is?  Most likely not.

Most hunters rely on what they see in the field as an indicator of the population density and buck to doe ratios.  While this is better than nothing, it isn’t much better (than nothing).