Do Trail Cam's Spook The Deer?

[OhioCooner]

The Flash part mainly?
It seems that when I set my cam up on a trail, the deer may come and go for a week, maybe two, then poof! Nothing what so ever. They totally avoid it or make a mad dash past it, as their tracks tell me any way.
Do you think a cam could spook the big guys out of the area or just alter their travel routes?

[bowing4bulls]

I was worried about this as well, but so far it dose not seem to bother the elk or mule deer, if you take a look at the pic's I posted earlier you will see a bull elk bedded right in front of the cam, that bull stayed there for 2 hours with the cam taking pic's every 2min's!

[Colorado Rick]

man that'll fill up and SD card!

He should get an agent if he's gonna want that much camera time!

[bowing4bulls]

Tell me about it, sure killed the batteries!

[timba]

I don't think the flash bothers them,I get lots of pics of the same deer last year and this year.

timba

[firediver]

What bothered game in the past with the 35mm cameras is the film advance. The new digital cameras are awesome....especially the IR models.

[YorkArcher]

Originally Posted by bowing4bulls

I was worried about this as well, but so far it dose not seem to bother the elk or mule deer, if you take a look at the pic's I posted earlier you will see a bull elk bedded right in front of the cam, that bull stayed there for 2 hours with the cam taking pic's every 2min's!

Better check the laws in your area....

I think they are passing new laws to keep paparazzi in control...

Did you start calling that bull Brittany????

[bowing4bulls]

HHmmm.. I wounder if the paparazzi have ever thought about trail cams????

[Colorado Rick]

HA!!


I can see about 7500 cam mounted to every phone pole/light pole/sign post/parking meter!

Man that's funny!

[MJewell]

I personally think it depends on the deer itself have beening using trail cameras for the last three years now and have never notice any problem with the flash spooking the deer. If any thing they seem to come closer to check it out. All five of my Moulties are the older Flash models.

Matt