This is the most impressive deer I caught on my cameras, and I had nine of them out across four locations throughout New York state. The really weird thing is, this picture was caught on what I would consider my best property of all the four. The property receives very little to no hunting pressure at all. I think I'm the only one who hunts it, and I hunt in there twice, maybe three times per year. And I don't go tromping around the bedding areas, or the old main logging road that runs along the edge of the beaver meadow / marsh that is littered with rubs and scrapes every 15 yards. The property is basically 250-300 acres; a small stream running through a beaver meadow, flanked by high hardwood ridges on the East and West sides. The property is bordered to the North by power lines, and to the South by several agg fields.
It is completely impossible that this is the biggest deer on the property, given all the favorable conditions and lack of pressure. Isn't it? Not to mention, I put that camera out in late March and didn't retrieve it until the beginning of August, and that's still the biggest deer I saw on the camera. And where is he going in complete daylight? Aren't bucks supposed to bedded in daylight, or at least headed toward a bed? He's headed up the crest of a ridge in this picture; it's a well-traveled corridor with multiple paths leading down the ridge to a doe bedding area 200 yards down past where all the trails converge and the ridge ends. Up top their travel routes head out of the property, across the road to agg fields. But I have another camera up there, and I didn't see him on that camera ever, let alone on the same day and time. If you go the other way at the top of the ridge that does lead into a large bedding area. But why wouldn't he be there already? That picture was snapped at 0620 two weeks from the solstice, which means it had already been fully light for over an hour.
I was happy when I retrieved the card, because there were a lot of pictures. I started hunting for naturally sourced food, and that camera has revealed a location I can get into and out of without being detected. So I basically get a "fill your freezer free" card here. But still it begs the question... why no big deer?
Is it possible that only does and young bucks use this travel route? Or should I consider the possibility that despite the ideal circumstances there are no big deer on that property?
I let myself buy 2 cameras a year in the $100 range and expect them to last at least 3-4 seasons so that adds up after a few years. If I was using $30 cameras I would probably hang two of them side by side with the hope that between the two they would get most stuff. I would be shocked if they lasted 2 full seasons though. Every single super cheap camera I have tried was basically a disaster and I am thrifty so if I could make them work, I would! 
. Not all properties hold good bucks. I have spots that I have abandoned. They look awesome. Very little pressure...but no bucks. I scout 1000s and 1000s of acres over the years looking for those select spots where I can find the bucks I am looking for. But in that same pieces where I am chasing good bucks, some cams have hardly had a deer on them this season. I will leave them throughout the whole season and after a couple seasons of doing this, I know WHEN and IF this area is good. I also run VERY few cameras on trails. They are either on ground scrapes or on food.