I mainly use mine for inventory purposes.
Summer - salt/mineral sites.
Fall - active scrapes and food plots.
Winter - food plots and a pile of corn.
I often have wanted to try and use trail cameras more for patterning deer but I am fearful I will bump deer by moving them around so much so I never have done it....
However this year I am going to try to do some patterning with trail cameras. Time will tell how it works.