There are thousands and thousands of these cameras sold every year and if there was a big problem hunters wouldn't buy them. I have one and it is set up to shoot three shots at a time and then after a couple minutes it shoots three shots again. It is not uncommon at all for me to get shots of the same deer standing in range of the camera for several minutes or longer. The only concern I have had is someone seeing the flash and locating your camera. I used to have mine set up on a trail that was only about 50 feet from roadway. I worried about somebody driving down the road and seeing it flash three times in a row and stealing my camera. I know the odds of somebody driving down the road at the same time a deer passes in front of my camera, and then being able to narrow down were the flash came from is rare but it could happen.