Trail camera takes guess work out of hunting : Outdoors : Memphis Commercial Appeal

By Bryan Brasher (Contact), Memphis Commercial Appeal

If you’ve paid much attention to the outdoors page lately, you’ve probably figured out that I’m a big fan of infrared trail-camera technology.

To me, checking new photos on a trail camera is like opening presents on Christmas morning.

You find something different every time you open a file — and if you use them properly, the cameras can be almost as much fun as hunting itself.

Besides high-powered rifles and self-climbing tree stands, trail cameras are the greatest tool we have as hunters today.

You strap one to a tree in a carefully chosen area, and it snaps photos continuously, leaving no doubt about what’s roaming around the nearby woods.

Cameras take a lot of the guess work out of your hunt and enhance the overall experience.

Still, some people refuse to use them — and I wonder if they truly realize what they’re missing.

Many old-school hunters buck the new trends in hunting technology because they feel like they’re cheating.

The way they see it, their great grandfathers didn’t use trail cameras, so they shouldn’t either.

But that seems like a lot of backwoods grandstanding to me — and I wonder if their great-grandfathers might agree with me if they were still around to ask.

Sticking to “old-school principles” is one of the oldest ways for one human to feel superior to another.  Click Link Below For Full Story!

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