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Post by Woody Williams on Nov 4, 2012 15:55:47 GMT -5
I've got a trail camera down the way on the food plot I am hunting some evenings. Yesterday evening about 20 minutes to quitting time a spike entered the field and fed his way down to the camera. He got flashed three times and never lifted his head once... I know this is a you g deer and maybe a mature deer would have acted differently - maybe, maybe not..
Your thoughts?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2012 15:59:26 GMT -5
I do not think it bothers them.
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Post by GS1 on Nov 4, 2012 17:08:15 GMT -5
I think you run less of a risk when you have it set to take a single picture rather than multiples. I have one white flash camera that I put out sometimes and set it on two pictures, the deer seem less bothered than they do by multiple pictures on my IR cameras. I think the flash bothers them less than the IR filter sound.
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Post by MuzzleLoader on Nov 4, 2012 18:31:39 GMT -5
I had 2 white flash set up behind the house in the food plot several years ago. I could watch what their reaction was to the flash. After several days of getting flashed, they would go out of their way to avoid the cameras. If you have never set off a camera in the dark, give it a try. Not sure why any deer would stand there next to the bolt of lightning. My wife looked out the window one night and wonder if it was gonna storm because of all the "lightning". I said its just the trail cams over the hill going off. I run IR now.
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Post by megadadof3 on Nov 4, 2012 18:49:29 GMT -5
I personally feel have to agree with muzzleloader, they do learn where the flash is at and will avoid that exact area, now don't get me wrong, they will still move through the same area but just a little further away from the area of the previous flash
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Post by hunthard4 on Nov 4, 2012 18:58:11 GMT -5
I got trail cam pics of a 3.5 year old 10 pt 3 days straight in my front yard in the same place. I watched it flash from my living room over and over and no reaction. Older bucks may be more adaptive though.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2012 19:06:01 GMT -5
Deer are like people, they have unique personalities. It appears that some deer don't like a flash and some don't pay it much attention. Some deer apparently love persimmons and some don't touch them. Some dogs are terrified of thunderstorms and some aren't. Sometimes I think we read too much into the actions and reactions of the game we hunt. What one deer does or does not do may not hold true at all for another. The longer I hunt, the less I know!
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Post by hunthard4 on Nov 4, 2012 19:53:45 GMT -5
I agree. ^^^^ metamorahunter, i like reading your comments on various threads. very insightful.
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Post by zs84 on Nov 8, 2012 19:50:58 GMT -5
I believe that it tends to bother them more at night than any other time. I have experienced both having deer look surprised on camera and some that act like they have no idea anything is not normal. Do what works best for you.
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Post by pastorjim08 on Nov 21, 2012 19:30:33 GMT -5
Deer are like people, they have unique personalities. It appears that some deer don't like a flash and some don't pay it much attention. Some deer apparently love persimmons and some don't touch them. Some dogs are terrified of thunderstorms and some aren't. Sometimes I think we read too much into the actions and reactions of the game we hunt. What one deer does or does not do may not hold true at all for another. The longer I hunt, the less I know! This statement is very true. Some it will bother and others not. The only thing I might add to this is that I personally think it's different when using a camera in the video mode. In the video mode the flash is on for an extended period of time, giving the target animal a chance to notice it. Whereas with a flash it's over so quickly, they probably don't know what it was. I will also say that with a food or mineral source, they will almost always forget about everything else in their quest for the food. Blessings.......Pastorjim
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Post by rwtaxidermy on Jul 29, 2013 9:06:35 GMT -5
I think this should be a 2-part question......Who uses a flash and who uses IR ...How do the deer react to each? I will give my Two-cents here as i am a diehard bow-hunter and prepare for season 365 days a year. I myself find flash cameras hung at 3-4ft high will spook game, I am not nocking flash cameras because IR cameras will do the same. You dont think so? Hang a flash camera and an IR camera 4ft high and see how many deer notice the camera reguardless of the type of flash it fires...notice how the deer react to these cameras.....they dont hang around long...Keep track of the number of pictures taken in a 2 week or 4 week period, I prefer to change out my SD Cards every 4 weeks. Now take both cameras and hang them 6-7ft high at a slight angle over a trail, field edge, bedding area or mineral/feeding site and soon you will notice Four things. #1 being the deer DO NOT notice that first camera as they did when hung at eye level. #2 You will notice your SD Cards will have %50 more pictures on them than previously. #3 You will soon see an increase in buck activity in those areas. #4 You will notice more pics/video of deer and they are RELAXED. This is just my Two-cents worth, try it yourself and you will see..
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