The barely audible "click"

[megalomaniac]

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.

Oh, and I caught him multiple times on other true black flash cams last season. He just HATED the red glow cams.

 

[BSK]

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.

UNQUESTIONABLY, deer see the cameras. They don't need a flash to draw their attention to them. However, I guess I'm lucky that the deer in my area don't care about the funny little box on the tree once it proves harmless. In fact, I often have deer come up and press their noses against the cam. Yet they still don't spook and keep coming back.

 

[rem270]

UNQUESTIONABLY, deer see the cameras. They don't need a flash to draw their attention to them. However, I guess I'm lucky that the deer in my area don't care about the funny little box on the tree once it proves harmless. In fact, I often have deer come up and press their noses against the cam. Yet they still don't spook and keep coming back.

I Always get a kick out of the ones that come up and take a look at the cams. The spike in the pic actually moved the cam after this pic and opened the front part. Not sure if he was trying to delete his pics or what but if so he was unsuccessful

 

[BSK]

I Always get a kick out of the ones that come up and take a look at the cams. The spike in the pic actually moved the cam after this pic and opened the front part. Not sure if he was trying to delete his pics or what but if so he was unsuccessful

That's funny!

 

[WTNBowHunter]

When a camera snaps a pic; is that enough to discourage deer from frequenting a particular location?

Not in my opinion. What will make deer avoid that area is humans frequenting an area too much. Grant Woods got me to where I will try and hang cameras close to a road where I don't have to hardly walk off that road during summer/late fall. When not close to a road, I will hang a camera when I hang that stand and not check it unless I'm going to hunt said stand (assuming it's not a cell cam)

 

[DoubleRidge]

And sometimes I believe the click can just make an old gal really mad

 

[DoubleRidge]

Then you have those that you know heard the click.....but they don't care....they just wanna tease viewer's.

 

[BSK]

I get these kind of videos all the time, usually the first week a camera is in a new location. They are very curious animals.