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I set up a camera in my backyard 2 weeks ago over a fresh scrape trying to get pics of a piebald buck I'd seen. The first day he was in the scrape and I got several pics of him but you could tell he was suspicious of the camera. Since then I've had 100's of pics of the does and fawns visiting the scrape and working the overhead branches but not once has the buck been on the scrape. I've had several more pics of him passing by (upwind and downwind) within 30 feet of the scrape but he will not check the scrape. He won't even look at it in passing.
 
Recoynx...no flash at all. He just didn't like seeing it hanging on a nearby tree. Some of the does get antsy looking at it but keep returning. It's actually kind of amusing because he won't even look in that direction. As he passes by he won't even look at the does standing in the scrape and waits for them to leave it before acknowledging them. It's as if he doesn't see it it's not there.
 
Do you have that Reconyx on a very small tree? Seems the larger the tree, generally the less the deer are likely to be bothered by it. And the smaller the cam's "footprint", the better.

I'm glad to see the cam sizes trending smaller each year. Some of the older models were relatively huge.
 
I have never spooked a deer with my IRs. Cannot understand why so many think they do. I have a ton of point blank doe and buck pics and they never run off. The last pic is them standing next to the camera. May be noise but my deer just don't seem to mind the cameras at all. Are yall 'descenting' these cams? Cannot understand why I do not seem to have that problem but others do.
 
weatherby man":1pejzmyl said:
I have never spooked a deer with my IRs. Cannot understand why so many think they do. I have a ton of point blank doe and buck pics and they never run off. The last pic is them standing next to the camera. May be noise but my deer just don't seem to mind the cameras at all. Are yall 'descenting' these cams? Cannot understand why I do not seem to have that problem but others do.
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I'm sure we'd all love to see pics of these mature bucks that keep returning to get photographed by your red IR cams.
 
Vermin93":2a3d5zjx said:
weatherby man":2a3d5zjx said:
I have never spooked a deer with my IRs. Cannot understand why so many think they do. I have a ton of point blank doe and buck pics and they never run off. The last pic is them standing next to the camera. May be noise but my deer just don't seem to mind the cameras at all. Are yall 'descenting' these cams? Cannot understand why I do not seem to have that problem but others do.
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I'm sure we'd all love to see pics of these mature bucks that keep returning to get photographed by your red IR cams.
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I spray down my cameras after I strap them to the tree and turn on.I used to not spray them down and it seems to make a difference
 
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Big or small, kill em all
 
The first deer is not the deer I meant to post. But the second deer I had tons of pictures of over several months. All on an ir camera. The last buck is the only picture I had of him. Would have like to have seen him during the season


Big or small, kill em all
 
Generally the problem is not the deer scenting the cameras; it's visual. Yes, they stick out on smaller trees as opposed to hanging them on bigger trees but once they see the camera it doesn't matter how big the tree is. I have the same deer returning again and again but no matter how many times they do or how long the camera has been there they are obviously concerned with it's presence. They may not spook away but they still do a lot of head bobbing and repositioning themselves while constantly staring at the camera. You get some comical pics that way.
 
Mike,

Normally, I get deer of all sexes and ages staring at a black-flash camera box the first week it's in place. But once it doesn't "do anything threatening" they learn to ignore it, often by just the second week.
 
Classic example of a deer reacting to an IR cam (scroll down to the bottom of the page to see it, and be sure to catch the first second of the video, when the flash first turns on):

 
BSK...No doubt. Still, after 1+months of a camera in place and without over due human intrusion, my consistent deer still stare at the camera every trip in front of it like I just hung it there. They aren't spooking off of it but they still consider it highly suspicious.
 
Mike,

I don't doubt that at some point in time, so many trail-cameras will be in areas that are hunted that deer are going to start recognizing them for what they are--an indicator of threatening human behavior.
 
I think it's more of a sound thing with them than it is a light thing.


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PillsburyDoughboy":3lrzz0op said:
I think it's more of a sound thing with them than it is a light thing.
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If a camera of ANY flash type makes noise, you're toast. Deer are highly attuned to mechanical noises.
 
BSK":20n5x3uy said:
PillsburyDoughboy":20n5x3uy said:
I think it's more of a sound thing with them than it is a light thing.
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If a camera of ANY flash type makes noise, you're toast. Deer are highly attuned to mechanical noises.
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Exactly. Most cameras I have handled have some sort of noise factor that is mechanical in nature. Some are quiter than others but none are totally silent.

Amp that up x a deers ears and you got some thing.


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