thinking of buying some trail cams for the land but my buddy keeps putting the bug in my ear that when the flash goes of at night time the deer get scared and will not return. also if i decide to go with the trail cams what do u suggest. any feed back be great.



Good Hunting

I have several Cuddebacks and love them, I never noticed that the flash has scared the deer, I have seen multiple pics of the same deer at the same location in one night.

They can definitely startle a deer, though I don't think bad enough for him to not come back. Deer are scared of everything anyway. The flash really shoudn't be any different to them than a flash of lightening or headlights from a passing car in the distance. The sound of the camera going off shouldn't be any different than a squirrel jumping up a tree right beside the deer or a lizard scurrying under the leaves. I use trail cameras alot. Personally, I usually will remove them froman area, a week or two before I start hunting there, just to keep any extra commotion down before I hunt. I've been fortunate enough to take four bucks in the last two years over the age of 4 1/2. Three of them, I found with my Cuddebacks.

I have been using trail cams for several years and currently have a Camtrakker branddigitalwith the "strobe" flash. This has got to be one of the brightest flashes on the trail cam market, and in several thousand photos, I have never had a picture of anything, hog, deer, coon, fox, stray dog, crow, etc, show any sign of fear from the camera or flash. This has been proven to me because I set my photo trigger at the fastest rate for follow up pictures and have literally gotten 50 pictures of a deer or group of deer eating at a corn pile or inmy food plots in a matter of minutes. I am sure thatthere have beensome circumstances of trail cams "scaring" deer, but I would bet the sound of the camera has more to do with the problem than the flash. I believe this is a bigger problem with film cameras than digitals. My 2 cents.

Some people told me the same thing before I bought my cam and was like you worried about it, but realized that it was coming from peole that did't have one and they were just spreading hear say. Here is three pics for ya with three does in it, the one doe walks up and checks it out the returns with the others, I have bucks do the same thing but thought this was a good one cause it had three deer in it and they all stayed, The one gets behind the other in a pic but you can see the legs to know its still their.

I've wondered if my Cuddebacks make a noise that we can't hear, but deer can. In my videos I have noticed that deer will look in the direction of the camera, they are not alarmed, but something gets their attention. I've never seen one spoke and run off.

flash really doesnt affect they deer

We've killed a buck that we had no less than 5 pictures of. I think it can scare them, but not much and only for a short time.

The deer I have got pics of do not seem spooked at all I have mine set up to take 3 pics in a row with every trigger and not one is spooked by the third shot. one even moved into the shot after the first pic was taken. I will include that 3 pic series for you.







And just one of a fawn no sgins of fear here either.