you be the judge....

[deerkiller300wsm]

Do trail cams spook deer?

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[deerkiller300wsm]

lets try it again.....

http://youtu.be/Ta8oJCnSsqo

 

[Andy S.]

Some do, some don't. The odds are very likely deer will spook if the cam is placed inches off the deer's walking path as the case here. This doe's behavior reminded me of a "human scent reaction" moreso than a visual miscue, although it could have been either, or something else for that matter (white flash, nylon strap moving with wind, etc). Good quality video, thanks for sharing.

 

[BowGuy84]

Not black flash...which is all I use now.

 

[JCDEERMAN]

Not black flash...which is all I use now.

YUP!

 

[Winchester]

That one sure seemed to!

 

[BSK]

You'll have to catch the first few frames of this video to see the deer's reaction to this a red-glow unit:

 

[mathews338]

some do and some don't. i'm gonna put cams out no matter what. it hasn't seemed to hurt my success or many others. it's helped alot more than hurt IMO.

 

[BSK]

some do and some don't. i'm gonna put cams out no matter what. it hasn't seemed to hurt my success or many others. it's helped alot more than hurt IMO.

If you use visible light cams (white-flash or red-glow), try the trick of setting them up a little higher and pointing them down. Not only will this keep the camera illumination from potentially being right in the deer's face, the deer tend not to see the camera box itself when it is higher up in a tree.

While testing FIREMANJIM's black-flash video unit, I noticed that deer weren't seeing the camera box (and staring at it even in daylight) when I had it at least 6 feet high in a tree and angled down. On the other hand, deer constantly stare at my black-flash cams day and night when they are attached only 2 1/2 to 3 feet up a tree.

 

[REM7]

DEPENDS WHERE YOU ARE. MOST PART I SAY NO. THATS WHY ALL THESE PICS ARE UP.

 

[Truedouble]

The 3 biggest bucks I've ever gotten on camera came back day after day after day. I think two were from an IR and the other was a flash camera. I can also say that after thousands of pics over 8 years I've only seen a deer run 2 or 3 times. It's possible that my cams have scared more deer and the camera just didn't detect it, but when you have 3 mature bucks stand around for 10 minutes at a time in front of a camera, at times not more than 2-3 feet away and they come back over and over my opinion is under normal circumstances they very rarely scare deer.

 

[Good time Charlie]

No they do not spook from white flash...Them deer acted as though they caught your scent,I did not see any flash,it was daytime ...why would it flash?