Trail Camera Flash; OK or not OK

[shaner72]

Alot of trail cameras are going to infared technology these days, but there are are still a few cheaper models with "FLASH". In your opinion, is FLASH- OK or a BAD IDEA?

[AR Bowhunter]

There is nothing wrong with flashor IR. That is nothing but companies pushing products.

[Mottz]

Don't see anything wrong with the flash. Thats what lightning is. Except without the thunder afterwards.

[CamoCop]

i use both types of cams and get the same amount of pic's

[Bee Busy Outdoors]

On occassion they will get spooked with the flash, but not often. Its rare in my opinion. For anti theft, IR is less noticeable...................

[shaner72]

I have a moultrie i40, on my last set of pics a decent 6 came throught a bottleneck 6 days in a row, about the same time each morning, give or take 45min. Would the same deer come through the same bottleneck if there was a flash going off everytime he came through? Or would he have started avoiding that spot knowing there would be a flash go off when he walked through? I'm thinking flash is probably not OK, but that is just me!
Shaner

[Vermont_hunter]

i have both kinds of cams and never had a prob with my flash spooking deer, i have seen so deer shy at firts then they get used to it, also if you have bears in you area its better to go with ir i have seen deer that seem to notice the ir too so it depends more on the person then the deer

[BDOWebmaster]

I'll second what Vermont hunter said about bears. They seemed to either get very curious or very annoyed by a flash. That said, we've had one bear take down an IR camera three times this year, but that's the only one. Everything else seems to ignore the flash after a few times.