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Stix wrote:[quote="Yes the animals can smell them. I have gotten many photos and videos off the cams of deer, bears, squirrels and other creatures licking and trying to eat the camera..
Thats fantasic...mate you should post some of those pics...im sure there are more folk on here, (apart from myself), that would love to see them...especially pics of the bears...!!
I just cant imagine what it would be like to have a bear rummaging through your garbage at 3am in the morning...lol[/quote]
I usually delete the photos of the bears, deer and squirrel messing with the camera because all you usually end up seeing is a tongue and whiskers.
I have a different approach to the scent thing. Animals I find are creatures of habit and rather than thinking I can fool them or trick them I just let them get used to me being around and smelling my scent including on the trail cams. If anything it attracts them to the camera for a picture. A lot of times the deer come out and watch me shoot on my range.
You can't leave trash outside here, bears will get in it and human trash is like cocaine to them. Once they find a source you can't break them from it and they will go as far as breaking into cabins and houses to get it. The main problem time is spring when they wake from hibernation and the plants and berries have not started yet so they are hungry and tend to look around human habitation for food. Once into the summer they tend to move more into the forests, although I do see them in summer. Then in autumn you really have to watch again. The plants are dying off in autumn, cover is disappearing, cold is coming and they know the hunters are coming for them so they spazz out racing around looking for a place to hide and hibernate. Most of the time bears will leave you alone but if you run into them at the wrong time it's game on fight time. I had one bad run in a few years ago where two seconds of timing allowed my escape and had it not, I would have had to resort to my Glock 17 on me.
Below is a sampling of the animals I get on the cams behind my house. Turkeys, bears, coyotes, foxes, deer, etc.