*EVIDENCE* IR spooks some deer (Pics)
02-10-2008, 01:51 PM
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RE: PROOF IR spooks some deer (Pics)
Unless deer can see lightwaves that are out of the visible light range, there is no way the IR itself could spook them, because they cant see it. That's the whole point of it lol so they don't see it. I'm guessing it was noise the camera made or something else that spooked him.
02-10-2008, 01:52 PM
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RE: PROOF IR spooks some deer (Pics)
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From one picture I guess we could determine that they were afraid of feeders, too. Remember.......Kelly/KY had a picture of a buck by a feeder that was kicking up a storm.
'Course.....the rest of that story is.....he had an arrow zipping through his body at about the same time the camera went off.
I don't think individual instances can tell us anything substantially towards "proof", though.
From one picture I guess we could determine that they were afraid of feeders, too. Remember.......Kelly/KY had a picture of a buck by a feeder that was kicking up a storm.
'Course.....the rest of that story is.....he had an arrow zipping through his body at about the same time the camera went off.
I don't think individual instances can tell us anything substantially towards "proof", though.
02-10-2008, 01:54 PM
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RE: PROOF IR spooks some deer (Pics)
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Unless deer can see lightwaves that are out of the visible light range, there is no way the IR itself could spook them, because they cant see it. That's the whole point of it lol so they don't see it. I'm guessing it was noise the camera made or something else that spooked him.
Unless deer can see lightwaves that are out of the visible light range, there is no way the IR itself could spook them, because they cant see it. That's the whole point of it lol so they don't see it. I'm guessing it was noise the camera made or something else that spooked him.
02-10-2008, 02:26 PM
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RE: PROOF IR spooks some deer (Pics)
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I don't doubt you, I just wonder why they call it infared if in fact it isn't.
I don't doubt you, I just wonder why they call it infared if in fact it isn't.
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02-10-2008, 03:07 PM
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RE: PROOF IR spooks some deer (Pics)
I firmly believe that IR spooks mature bucks. It doesn't spook them as bad as regular flash, but they stilldon't like it. Not only that, but they don't like the looks of a camera just hanging on a tree either. I've been using cameras for three years now and this year I added 3 IR Cuddebacks to my collection. Now I have these along with 1 Cuddeback Expert regular flash. With the regular flash, after about a week to 10 days, the deer start skirting my camera. I have to keep moving it if I want to get them on film. I cannot bait where I use them so I can't force them to pose for pictures. The mature bucks are the first ones to avoid the cameras. On regular flash cameras, I will only get a mature bucks pic 1 time at the same spot. If I want to try to get him again, I have to move the camera. Basically the same for the IR cameras, they're just not as spooked. I got a mature buck twice in the same spot but once was in daylight when there was no flash (IR). When I got him at night, he spotted the IR and would not come any closer, He finally turned and walked away. I have a 30 sec video of him doing this. You may not be able to see his rack because the batteries were getting very low, but on my PC at home I can see the size of his rack, he's about 140. You can definately see his eyes.
BTW, the other pic of him is right at dusk and is still very hard to see.
Bottom line: Mature bucks are very camera shy! [:-]
http://s166.photobucket.com/albums/u85/GregBKH/?action=view&current=40.flv
BTW, the other pic of him is right at dusk and is still very hard to see.
Bottom line: Mature bucks are very camera shy! [:-]
http://s166.photobucket.com/albums/u85/GregBKH/?action=view&current=40.flv
02-10-2008, 03:15 PM
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RE: PROOF IR spooks some deer (Pics)
I think it all depends on the area where the deer live. If the deer are used to seeing people and wierd people objects. This is my first year using my stealth cam prowler adn i havnt had one deer run from my infared camera. i am in a very people populated area though they may be used to seeing different obnject and not be scared of them. even my mature bucks dont have a problem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0_lzH9sKrI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0_lzH9sKrI
02-10-2008, 03:16 PM
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RE: PROOF IR spooks some deer (Pics)
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I firmly believe that IR spooks mature bucks. It doesn't spook them as bad as regular flash, but they stilldon't like it. Not only that, but they don't like the looks of a camera just hanging on a tree either. I've been using cameras for three years now and this year I added 3 IR Cuddebacks to my collection. Now I have these along with 1 Cuddeback Expert regular flash. With the regular flash, after about a week to 10 days, the deer start skirting my camera. I have to keep moving it if I want to get them on film. I cannot bait where I use them so I can't force them to pose for pictures. The mature bucks are the first ones to avoid the cameras. On regular flash cameras, I will only get a mature bucks pic 1 time at the same spot. If I want to try to get him again, I have to move the camera. Basically the same for the IR cameras, they're just not as spooked. I got a mature buck twice in the same spot but once was in daylight when there was no flash (IR). When I got him at night, he spotted the IR and would not come any closer, He finally turned and walked away. I have a 30 sec video of him doing this. You may not be able to see his rack because the batteries were getting very low, but on my PC at home I can see the size of his rack, he's about 140. You can definately see his eyes.
BTW, the other pic of him is right at dusk and is still very hard to see.
Bottom line: Mature bucks are very camera shy! [:-]
http://s166.photobucket.com/albums/u85/GregBKH/?action=view&current=40.flv
I firmly believe that IR spooks mature bucks. It doesn't spook them as bad as regular flash, but they stilldon't like it. Not only that, but they don't like the looks of a camera just hanging on a tree either. I've been using cameras for three years now and this year I added 3 IR Cuddebacks to my collection. Now I have these along with 1 Cuddeback Expert regular flash. With the regular flash, after about a week to 10 days, the deer start skirting my camera. I have to keep moving it if I want to get them on film. I cannot bait where I use them so I can't force them to pose for pictures. The mature bucks are the first ones to avoid the cameras. On regular flash cameras, I will only get a mature bucks pic 1 time at the same spot. If I want to try to get him again, I have to move the camera. Basically the same for the IR cameras, they're just not as spooked. I got a mature buck twice in the same spot but once was in daylight when there was no flash (IR). When I got him at night, he spotted the IR and would not come any closer, He finally turned and walked away. I have a 30 sec video of him doing this. You may not be able to see his rack because the batteries were getting very low, but on my PC at home I can see the size of his rack, he's about 140. You can definately see his eyes.
BTW, the other pic of him is right at dusk and is still very hard to see.
Bottom line: Mature bucks are very camera shy! [:-]
http://s166.photobucket.com/albums/u85/GregBKH/?action=view&current=40.flv
02-10-2008, 04:17 PM
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RE: PROOF IR spooks some deer (Pics)
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I think it all depends on the area where the deer live. If the deer are used to seeing people and wierd people objects. This is my first year using my stealth cam prowler adn i havnt had one deer run from my infared camera. i am in a very people populated area though they may be used to seeing different obnject and not be scared of them. even my mature bucks dont have a problem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0_lzH9sKrI
I think it all depends on the area where the deer live. If the deer are used to seeing people and wierd people objects. This is my first year using my stealth cam prowler adn i havnt had one deer run from my infared camera. i am in a very people populated area though they may be used to seeing different obnject and not be scared of them. even my mature bucks dont have a problem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0_lzH9sKrI
I cannot bait where I use them (cameras)so I can't force them to pose for pictures.
Without bait, mature bucks are camera shy.