Deer seeing the camera?

BSK · Oct 19, 2022

Normally I don't post any of my clients' trail-camera pictures, but this one was too good to pass up. Do you think this buck saw the camera?

JCDEERMAN · Oct 19, 2022

TheLBLman · Oct 19, 2022

He was definitely checking out that non-natural shape.

Hillbilly Hunter · Oct 19, 2022

They are curious!

megalomaniac · Oct 19, 2022

Lol to all those pics

volboy · Oct 19, 2022

I have had a few like this

Big Pop · Oct 19, 2022

I put most of mine about 7-8 ft high and angle them to my point of aim. Most of the time they don't even look at them. Like this guy. Btw this is where I'll be hunting the week around 11/11 this year.

BSK · Oct 20, 2022

Big Pop said:
I put most of mine about 7-8 ft high and angle them to my point of aim. Most of the time they don't even look at them. Like this guy. Btw this is where I'll be hunting the week around 11/11 this year.View attachment 153020

I do the same when monitoring a spot on the ground, like a scrape. But sometimes I want a wide panoramic view of the entire area hence mount them lower. The deer definitely notice those!

Big Pop · Oct 20, 2022

BSK said:
I do the same when monitoring a spot on the ground, like a scrape. But sometimes I want a wide panoramic view of the entire area hence mount them lower. The deer definitely notice those!

Very true.

UT-longbeard · Oct 20, 2022

I get them like this or sniffing the cam lol.

PossumSlayer · Oct 20, 2022

Maybe we should put peanut butter on the cameras

backyardtndeer · Oct 21, 2022

Probably smell it. If you don't use nitrile or latex gloves checking your cams, then you are leaving scent on them. Depending on the cam they may also possibly hear them. Have had moultrie cams that I could hear when they took pics.

BSK · Oct 21, 2022

I've noticed deer almost always see a new camera, unless it is mounted high. However, once they give it a long stare-down, and maybe even sniff it, they never care about it again.

Shed Hunter · Oct 23, 2022

I move cameras a lot so I get quite a few sniffers

BSK · Oct 24, 2022

Same Shed Hunter. I move cams a lot and they almost always get sniffed.

rem270 · Oct 24, 2022

I've had several up close pics in the past. The spike in the pic actually turned my camera and opened the part where you turn it on and off and change the batteries. Like others have said sometimes I hang them higher, mostly do they over scrapes. Lots of times I don't tho over salt licks or food plots.

Hymie3 · Nov 3, 2022

This camera has been up since Turkey season. No way they're smelling it. This was yesterday. Either the shape or led. Who knows

Hillbilly Hunter · Nov 3, 2022

Hymie3 said:
This camera has been up since Turkey season. No way they're smelling it. This was yesterday. Either the shape or led. Who knows

She could just be standing in front of it

Cherokee · Nov 5, 2022

He knows the camera is there, and worked hard to get the lighting and composition just right. He was needing a new profile pic.

Smo · Nov 8, 2022

I had one stand in front of the camera one night for over 5 minutes…,taking his pic 3,times every 30 seconds.::

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