I love the shots when they're all muddy from walkin thru the swamp
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they all look tastey don't they?
OK..A good deer hunter I am not..Does that flash have any affect on the deer?? Looking at Bird Dog's pics I see the same ones coming back to the corn pile again and again..
what's the perferred camera to purchase??
No one really knows if the flash affects them or not. I've seen pics of them jumping from the flash, but I don't think they're that smart.
Here are pics taken with two $100 dollar cameras. The B&W one is taken with an infrared flash that has trouble when it is dusk or dawn it should be in color, but for $100 it works.
The pair of bucks stuck around for 5+ min and had quite a few pics taken.
The downside of the flash is when a neighbor sees it and decides they want to take it home with them. The infrared's use LED's that shine red on the target.
SD card slots are a plus. You can pull the cards instead of removing the cameras. I checked my pics this morning and didn't have to mess with the camera placement or stink the area up too bad.
I have a Moultrie cheapo that's 3 years old. and a Stealth Cam cheapo IR
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In my opinion, I think it just depends on the deer. I think the does could care less about the flash. I've got 100's of pictures of the does just standing there forever and not giving a damn about the flash. I only got that 10 pointer on camera 2 nights (3 times 1 night, and once a second night where he's jumping from the flash). I have a buddy that swears that the flash will spook them. He does have that same deer on camera in a different location, but only once. I think I've got the Moultrie 3.1 but I'm not positive, got it off eBay for pretty cheap compared to new. I don't think you need one with a lot of megapixels unless you plan on getting them developed, even mine is probably too many, they're just scouting cameras.
as far as flash, I have seen the camera take many flash photo's as I have one set up within site of my house. I have yet to see one spook from the flash. We set ours to only take 1 pic every five minutes.