For sure. They leave nothing to guess about. Everything gets lit up!
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Ski - GardePro cameras
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For sure. They leave nothing to guess about. Everything gets lit up!
TheLBLman
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Any evidence the deer are seeing the flash?For sure. They leave nothing to guess about. Everything gets lit up!
Any evidence the deer are seeing the flash?
Too early to tell yet. They never did see the flash on the A5 and as far as I know these new A60s have same flash.
So far I've had two bucks look at the cameras but the cams are down low and not hidden, so not really sure. The cams that are up and concealed have not been looked at. I'll have a better idea pretty soon but for now I can't say for sure.
I do have one cam that's nearly on the ground inside a downed treetop. It has captured several bucks at night on video and none noticed it even though it's only about 8ft from the scrape. If they saw it I suspect they would have put their nose down to investigate it, but they didn't so I'm thinking for now no they don't see it.
BSK
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The GardePros are going to become my dedicated food plot cams, and I'll move the Brownings I currently have on food plots back into the woods on scrapes/trails.The difference in night time illumination is amazing. I need to move mine out of the woods and into the food plots!!
BSK
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Nope. Deer never turned their heads.Any evidence the deer are seeing the flash?
BSK
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Never ceases to maze me how quickly deer see anything different in their environment. Invariably, when I move a cam to a new location, the first time each deer walks by they see the camera - day or night. They stare at it for a moment, and then move on. Many times they will approach, sniff, and even lick the camera. But as long as it does them no harm, they ignore it from then on out. First video below is where I was monitoring a scrape, but no nearby trees existed, so I had to mount the camera on the trunk of the tree with the overhanging branch. Camera is VERY close to the scrape, and this yearling just had to investigate. Second video is that buck's first visit to this particular scrape. He had to check out the camera.I do have one cam that's nearly on the ground inside a downed treetop. It has captured several bucks at night on video and none noticed it even though it's only about 8ft from the scrape. If they saw it I suspect they would have put their nose down to investigate it, but they didn't so I'm thinking for now no they don't see it.
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JCDEERMAN
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I was going to do the sameThe difference in night time illumination is amazing. I need to move mine out of the woods and into the food plots!!
JCDEERMAN
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We have a couple Browning's that are so old, the sun has bleached them out. I just put this one here and boy, did she notice itNever ceases to maze me how quickly deer see anything different in their environment. Invariably, when I move a cam to a new location, the first time each deer walks by they see the camera - day or night. They stare at it for a moment, and then move on. Many times they will approach, sniff, and even lick the camera. But as long as it does them no harm, they ignore it from then on out. First video below is where I was monitoring a scrape, but no nearby trees existed, so I had to mount the camera on the trunk of the tree with the overhanging branch. Camera is VERY close to the scrape, and this yearling just had to investigate. Second video is that buck's first visit to this particular scrape. He had to check out the camera.
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Never ceases to maze me how quickly deer see anything different in their environment. Invariably, when I move a cam to a new location, the first time each deer walks by they see the camera - day or night. They stare at it for a moment, and then move on. Many times they will approach, sniff, and even lick the camera. But as long as it does them no harm, they ignore it from then on out. First video below is where I was monitoring a scrape, but no nearby trees existed, so I had to mount the camera on the trunk of the tree with the overhanging branch. Camera is VERY close to the scrape, and this yearling just had to investigate. Second video is that buck's first visit to this particular scrape. He had to check out the camera.
Yeah that's about the only time deer see my cams. I'm usually pretty cautious about putting them up high and concealing them some way but that comes at the cost of sometimes not getting real good pics/kids. So this season I've set several up right in the open for good imaging, albeit the risk of camera being noticed. So far it's like you say, they check it out then ignore it.
BSK
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That's exactly how I've been seeing them act.
