IR vs Flash
 

Is the IR that much better than flash? I understand that it has the obvious advantage, but it seems like the flash trail cams are alot cheaper. The reason Im asking is I want to buy a few of them, and cost is definately a factor.

RE: IR vs Flash
 

I have one of each an as for as pictures there is really no difference. They both will spook deer. The IR hasblack an white pic at night. The flash camera has color pics at night. That is the biggest difference.

RE: IR vs Flash
 

bow huntert, I have had deer spook with my flash cams but so far with my IR I've seen them look at it but don't seem to be to spooked by any means maybe a little curious or cautios and maybe even try to stay back from it a little but not spooked like my flash cams have done.

RE: IR vs Flash
 

I agree, IR cams may be noticable...a millisecond blink of red...but all of my night pics w/ my old stealthcam 35mm's w/ flash were spooked deer...every series of photos i ever had developed lead to spooked game running away

RE: IR vs Flash
 

They spook from both, just not as much I don't think as the regular flash. I have the No Flash Cuddeback and I've got a few pics of them heading out from the picture when it was getting taken. Its more the noise that scares them on my No Flash then anything I think. When it takes a picture it makes the slightest little noise. I can't hear it but my brother has heard it before when checking the camera.

Here's a picture of one spooking from my No Flash Cuddeback.

RE: IR vs Flash
 

i prefer flash cams because i don't like the black and whites. as far as falsh spooking them, i've never seen it. sometimes they see the camera and get spooked but the flash itself doesn't scare them in my opinion. my camera spends a good portion of the year hanging just outside my fence in my backyard, and i've watched deer get their picture taken hundereds of times and i've never seen them spook from the flash. does this guy look scared?

RE: IR vs Flash
 

I have pictures of the deer almost putting their nose on the camera.. And mine is a moultrie with the flash. I have not seen the camera spook any game . Deer, bear, coyote, fox, vultures, possum, coons none of them have bolted when i got pics of them.

RE: IR vs Flash
 

Schultzy, it almost looks like the deer was running by the camera and it took a pic of it.

RE: IR vs Flash
 

Nope. I got video of it too showing it spooking. This camera or any camera don't have a quick enough trigger speed to catch a deer running by the camera. Nice buck in your avatar patch!;)

RE: IR vs Flash
 

Heavy hitter,

Your deer are use to it I'm sure after seeing it there forever like you said. A new comer will act totally different. Your camera takes kick ass pictures and I love cuddebacks but deer have spooked from the flash camera's as well. My friends have the same camera as you and its happened a number of times in there 1000+ pictures this last year. I don't see why people can't believe someone when they say this. Geesh!! Get off your high horse already, I've seen many of your post.;)

RE: IR vs Flash
 

i'm not on a horse shultzy. i just tell it like i see it, and it's probably true that the deer behind the house get used to it, but the deer in the pic wasn't taken behind my house. it was taken about 300 miles from my house in wisconsin where i gun hunt. that buck had never seen my camera before. so there.

RE: IR vs Flash
 

behind my house in illinois...

RE: IR vs Flash
 

in the woods of wisconsin...

RE: IR vs Flash
 

ohhh yeah, i got about 10 pictures of that buck in wisconsin that morning and he didn't look spooked in any of them. so as i said before. i don't think deer spook from the flash, as i have never seen it happen. when you get a picutre of a deer running from your camera, it's because it smelled you on your camera, saw the camera itself and spooked, or something else scared it.schultzy, do your really think that picture you put up is the deer spooking from the flash? deer are fast, but they aren't that fast. explain to me how a deer can be turning and running from the flash as it goes off. impossible.

RE: IR vs Flash
 

Mine is not a flash camera, its a No Flash Cudde!! That deer in my picture is spooking from the noise that these camera's make when taking a pic I think, you can hear it if your ear is close to the camera. The trigger time on these Cudde's is quick enough to catch a deer spooking from the camera in most cases as I've had hardly any blank photo's. I've heard this same thing from others who have these No Flash Cudde's. Believe me when I say this. Why am I going to BS you? I guess my friends who have the flash camera's are all full of BS too then when they say the've had a few spook from there camera's. What happens in your woods doesn't happen every where else. I don't care what camera you got flash or no flash, some deer are going to spook in some way or another at times.

RE: IR vs Flash
 

i still use a flash camera but when i do, i never get more than 1 pic of each deer. this leads me to believe they haul but after the flash. this year i went out and bought a IR camera to try out. my cousin was using a IR camera last year and would consistantly get multiple pictures of the same deer.

RE: IR vs Flash
 

How do you know that deer is spooking from the flash and not another deer or critter.

RE: IR vs Flash
 

Because they standing there in the next pics looking around like what just happen.