Your take on game cameras?
03-31-2008, 07:28 AM
#13
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Central Minnesota
Posts: 9,445
RE: Your take on game cameras?
ORIGINAL: DropTine249
I have to strongly disagree, 125. If you have a permenantly mounted camera over a plot, feeder or so on, the deer could care less about it being there. As long as you take care of your scent when you pull the memory card or plug into the camera, you shouldnt have any problems, especially with an IR camera(alot less intrusive).
Think about it like this: if there is something infront of the camera that the deer not only want, but instinctivly seek out, like food or minerals, they will come. If you put a camera over it for a few days, its a new and unusual thing to the deer. Once the camera has been there for some time, deer get used to it and deem it a non-threat. Same thing as a ladder stand, feeder, farm equipment..etc....
Deer will tolerate human scent to a certain degree. The deer on my main piece, I can drive right up to and talk to them...They dont care, they see a human in the field, they move down the field a bit, including mature bucks. You walk into the woods, they just walk away from you. So, having a camera set up in an area that deer are used to seeing combines, harrows, discs, trucks, feeders, people...its not going to spook them off.
if you leave them in one location for too long, then yes
Think about it like this: if there is something infront of the camera that the deer not only want, but instinctivly seek out, like food or minerals, they will come. If you put a camera over it for a few days, its a new and unusual thing to the deer. Once the camera has been there for some time, deer get used to it and deem it a non-threat. Same thing as a ladder stand, feeder, farm equipment..etc....
Deer will tolerate human scent to a certain degree. The deer on my main piece, I can drive right up to and talk to them...They dont care, they see a human in the field, they move down the field a bit, including mature bucks. You walk into the woods, they just walk away from you. So, having a camera set up in an area that deer are used to seeing combines, harrows, discs, trucks, feeders, people...its not going to spook them off.
03-31-2008, 07:50 AM
#15
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Oct 2005
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RE: Your take on game cameras?
However..if you place a camera on a trail, a deer can just use another trail.
I guess in TRUE farm country, or wilderness, deer are alot less likely to tolerate human intrusion. I still think it boils down to leaving scent and being detected while one checks his/her camera.
03-31-2008, 10:18 AM
#20
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: ELK GROVE CA USA
Posts: 1,251
RE: Your take on game cameras?
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
That's why I never understood something.....If you think this is true....then why place your camera onthat trail?
Again....why put a camera on that trail, then? I don't get it.
However..if you place a camera on a trail, a deer can just use another trail.
I guess in TRUE farm country, or wilderness, deer are alot less likely to tolerate human intrusion. I still think it boils down to leaving scent and being detected while one checks his/her camera.
the KEY imo...is scent control....don't go in early, but go in when the deer will not be in that area...get in and get out quiet and SCENT FREE as possible....if the deer don't know you have been there besides something on a tree making a noise and flashing at them then it should be ok