Trail Cams

BowHuntr

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I have a question for the guys that use trail cams. I've been thinking about purchasing one. In your experiences in using them, do you find that you spook the deer and or elk that you are hoping to get photos of? I see some of these photos that are taken during night hours, which would require a flash. It seems to me that something like that would deter the animal from coming back to that specific area. Anyway...I was just hoping for some of your experiences in using these trail cams.

Thanks, and good luck to everyone who is or will be hitting the hills this fall.
 
I think I definitely spooked some animals with mine. Not so sure it was the flash as much as the noise of the camera. Those animals can hear anything. The big downfall is you will take a zillion pictures of birds of all sizes, shapes, and colors. But you will get some cool pics of the stuff you want. Good luck.
 
I also think that is scares some of the animals, but it also creates the curiosity in some of the others. When we had cameras set up on our bear bait, it didn't seem to scare them, and we had quite a few "bear nose" photos, and some close up eye ball shots. I've also had elk come and check it out close up. I had it up about 6-7 foot high in a tree once, and they came over to it and beat it around until it had slid down into the grass at the bottom of the tree. All we had was a full roll of close-up nostrils.... Pretty funny when you open your photos and nothing but noses and eyeballs..
I think a guy is wise to spend the extra money on a digital instead of a film camera also. You get a lot of wasted pic's from film, and the cost and time to develop them suck also!!
Good huntin!!!
 
its hard to say. i bought a moutrie digital camera and i got pictures of a buck 7 times with a flash. i aslo have doe and fawns that stood around forever.
 
Like any other sound, deer generaly will spook and then go investigate. Lots of times you will have a close up of an eyeball because they are trying to figure out what it is because it doesn't smell like anything they should be worried about. Just like when your sneakin up on them and if they see you they stop what they're doing and watch and do the leg stomp, but usually don't run off until they wind you. I've been chasing a hell of buck this year with my bow and started wonder if the buck had moved out of the area because I hadn't seen him for over a week so I set up my camera and sure enough he was on it and the very next day he came through again, but to no avail did he offer a shot. Moral of my story is, a 200"+ buck that's probably 7-8 years old that doesn't allow the sun to shine on his back isn't too spooked of the trail camera. That being said I'm not going to push my luck and leave it there any longer either..... My suggestion would be to use the camera wisely, once you've found what you're looking for get it out of there. Good luck!
 
i had my trail cam set up this year and got a doe and a fawn. everything else was stupid weeds blowing in the wind. Killed a big weed though out of my treestand.
 
My experience is that they do not scare deer or any other animal for that matter. I use a leaf river digital camera and it is so quite you'd be hard pressed to hear anything. I would never waste my money on a 35mm trail cam as about only 1/3 of the pictures are of deer. I have a couple of 128 MB cf cards that I swap out. They will hold hundreds of pics. Good Luck and have fun with that cam.

Mike
 

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