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.

[bullmoose38]

I think each deer varies. Most i dont think it bothers but sometimes you get that one deer that it does. A few years ago I kept putting a camera over a certain bucks scrape. I would get his pic one time and then wouldnt return. It happend to me over 3 different scrapes with him. For the most part i dont worry about it.

[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!