Patterning Deer

That’s literally a million dollar question. If there’s a way besides spending a lot of time in the stand and running tons of cameras then I’m all ears.

you may as well sit out there with a gun in hand rather than waiting on getting pics

if it shows up in daylight and you shoot him you can take bunches of pics of him dead

Mostly nightime pictures. I was thinking about walking into some areas that we don’t spend much time in and looking for possible bedding grounds and just getting in there with a climber and do some all day sits. I hunt in Hazlehurst east of 55, mostly planted pines with a few stand of oak

Pre rut and post rut are times to pattern deer. Early rut and rut you simply need to find funnels and doe bedding areas and hunt trails and bottlenecks around them.

Get on google earth or something similar and look at your place. Deer are edge animals. Look for spots where three edges meet.
Deer hunting is like bass fishing. The bass are in heavy cover, but you’ll get hung up in there. Same with deer. If the cover is too heavy, you won’t be able to get a shot off. Where you’re hunting, it’s pre-rut. Get tight to heavy cover and catch the bucks on the edge. Look for big rubs on the edge of this cover (cutover, pine thicket, cane thicket, etc). Watch your wind. Put a camera up on a big rub or scrape on the edge of cover.
Around Christmas, start hunting doe groups and places with visibility (power lines, woods roads, new cut overs, oak flats)
If you are going to walk the woods, do it during a big rain. You can move quietly and your scent will get washed out.