Just looking for some opinions. I have been running a couple of the moultrie D-55 flash cameras and was thinking about adding a few more trail cams. Do you think flash or IR spooks game more? I have read numerous articles and it seems like each one has their own take on how it affects game. I am curious about the IR but have heard the red glow is worse than a flash. Any truth to this or is IR the way to go. Thanks in advance.
hillrunner
PMA Member
I have not really had any trouble with cams spooking game ever since going to digital. Personally, I don't like IR pictures, color pictures are usually more clear, and always more enjoyable to look at. imo
nannyslayer
New Member
In my opinion, my IR cams spook more game from the sound of the shutter. Flash cams, I don't guess I have ever had an issue.
sethgade280
New Member
X2. I like the color night pics better too. I have never seen anything bad with either of them. The ir are nice because there isn't that flash going off in their face, but i have pics of big bucks staring at the cam pic after pic and it seems that they don't care. I did get screwed this year with the ir and having a blurring pic of acouple good bucks I wish I could have gotten clear to get a good look at them. each is own i guess.
Daver
PMA Member
I have one Bushnell and one Scout Guard. I don't have a concrete answer to provide, but after looking at a few thousand pics this year I do get the sense that some of the older deer are not comfortable in front of the camera. I will sometimes get 20+ pics in sequence from a doe or young buck, but rarely do we get more than one or two pics of a nice buck at a time and it seems like that they are more oftentimes looking right at the cam for at least one of the pics too.
My cams are silent, at least to my ears, and only have a blinking red light when they take their pic, no visible flash. For the most part we run those cams on mineral sites in the summer and up through the first part of October. I normally don't put cameras out much during the bow season and will put them back out in late December near food sources for a couple of months to see what the survivors are looking like.
My cams are silent, at least to my ears, and only have a blinking red light when they take their pic, no visible flash. For the most part we run those cams on mineral sites in the summer and up through the first part of October. I normally don't put cameras out much during the bow season and will put them back out in late December near food sources for a couple of months to see what the survivors are looking like.