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TheLBLman said:
Any evidence the deer are seeing the flash?
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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.
 
Ski said:
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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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.
 

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BSK said:
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.
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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 it
 

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BSK said:
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.
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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.
 
Think this guy noticed the camera?! At first, he was just keeping an eye on a little spike that walked under the camera, then he notices the camera. Eventually, he quit worrying about it and moved on. But he certainly noticed it.
 

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Been running my x60 cell cameras now for a few weeks. I really like them. They take good pictures and videos. Great night time pictures. I have the side ir turned on. They have a ton of settings on them I also like that. I have one in a not great service area and it does good. But will notify you of a picture but the picture takes a few seconds to load on the app the videos take longer. It's in a spot to take a lot of pictures a crossing with a scrape so far so good. Battery life so far is good as well. They will get out and get a deer to I have pictures 60 to 70 ft away from the camera. And as of now only 3 false picture from wind.

One thing I don't like and I may have a setting wrong is unlike the other cameras I have that are set up on video/picture you have to request videos from them. These automatically send them. I like but also dislike that in a high traffic area so I cut the video off on that camera.

It came with a 300 I think that's the number picture/ video free trial the service is about the same price as all the others I've ran 15ish dollars a month unlimited.

The app is good not great imo I really like tactacams app it's great to me.

Curious to see how they hold up. For the price as of now they will replace all my junky Moultries.
 

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