The best gear, used the wrong way, doesn’t deliver the performance we want or expect. These days that typically means some posts on social media about how a product is junk, or a waste of money. The reality, more often than not, is that we are the reason that product didn’t perform like it should have.
That gap between our expected performance and the actual performance we end up with can often be traced back to a failure to understand or leverage the product features in the best way possible. As hunters, we love gear. We have different camo for different times of year or locations. We have different rifles or bows depending on what we are hunting. Different calls for different times of the year.
Then we find one trail camera model we like and only use that camera.
Every product has some ability to be misunderstood, but technology has a special level of intrigue that leads to product use that leaves us wanting more.
Let’s look at a few misunderstood or misused features from trail cameras that can