Boll Weevil
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When a camera snaps a pic; is that enough to discourage deer from frequenting a particular location?
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CliffordN
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If you mean from a trail cam, probably not. But, the scent you leave behind if you check it a lot, and a flash most definitely will.
megalomaniac
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Absolutely the click on some cams will cause some deer to avoid them. Others it doesn't bother. Just like red glow cameras. Can't stand a camera with an audible shutter click.
backyardtndeer
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Yes, it can. As faint as it is, deer have seemed to key in on my cams. Some do not seem to mind them, and some do.
BSK
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These two responses. Some deer are freaked out by any audible lens click, others couldn't care less. Just like white-flash cams in their day. Some deer would stand there while bright flash after bright flash went off. Other deer ABSOLUTELY learned to avoid them. I watched them do it.
Swampster
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I seem to get several pictures a year of the deer so close that you can't hardly make anything out except an eye or part of an ear or something like that.
tree_ghost
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Totally dependent on the personality of the deer but yes it certainly can influence the movement of them.
How big of an area you talking? I interpreted it as avoiding a stand site altogether, so chose no. Then saw all the 'yes' answers. Yeah, a deer may avoid that camera from a click, but I really do not believe they are going to vacate the area altogether. They will just take a wider berth around the camera. Have had dozens and dozens of pics of mature bucks over the years just barely visible in the back of a photo while younger deer were all up in it. Those older bucks knew the camera was there and did not want to get close to it. But they didn't completely vacate the area.
So really, the size of the area leaves the question open to interpretation.
So really, the size of the area leaves the question open to interpretation.
Winchester
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Think about how often we used to get ONE or TWO pics MAX of mature bucks!
holstonangler
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I seen them walk in and look at the camera and then slowly back out.
BSK
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I agree with this. I've watched deer avoid white-flash cameras - by simply walking behind them. But vacate the area? No.
I'm primarily targeting older deer. If they're anything like me, they can't hear the click anymore. I guess that makes it a "mute" point?
BSK
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Groan...
themanpcl
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I have a Fusion and a Manifest (basically the same cam.) On several occasions when walking in the dark on a silent morning, i have heard the click. I have many pics of the deer stopped and facing the cam. Not sure if it has a lasting effect but they do notice.
If it did the trail cam industry would be bankrupt
BSK
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High-quality cams make no sound at all.
TheLBLman
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I hung a camera up over a scrape mid October some years back and was hunting about 75-100 yards from it the same day I hung it up. Had a 10 point come out and made his way to the scrape. He looked up directly at the cam and bolted out of there. I don't think it was scent he spooked from it was the gadget on the tree that wasn't there before. Other than that I can't say I've ever had any negative effects from the cams spooking deer.
megalomaniac
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Agree completely. Last year all I had in my bag was a low glow cam I hung on a 10y old salt lick. I got a single pic of a 4.5yo 9pt over 3 months, with him staring at the camera in the only pic. That hunting season, while I was on stand, he came out behind the camera, worked all around it, but never stepped in front of the camera. He did that a couple or times that season. He refused to get in front of the camera, even though he stayed right in the core area.
