Spray down your trail cameras?

[Bowhunting Brian]

I would think that your scent from being there and the scent on the camera would dispearse at the same time, so no need to spray down the camera.

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[Stanley]

I would think that your scent from being there and the scent on the camera would dispearse at the same time, so no need to spray down the camera.

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Great point. The wind is a great scent washer. The cameras probably get wind cleaned faster than the ground scent in some cases.

[Rubline]

I will clean the camera up after its been inside over the winter/spring, but let the rain keep it clean after that. As far as position I'll set cameras at waist level for photographing rubs/scrapes, otherwise I angle the camera high off to the side of trails and other spots. Depends on the situation. At least high up there are no doe nose shots of 15 in a row.
From my experience I think deer and especially bucks hear the camera go off and are not necessarily smelling the camera.

[Brett]

no. but i do put mine ~10' or more. have never had a video of a deer attempting to smell cams that high, but did encounter it when i used to put cams at deer eye level.

[Stanley]

no. but i do put mine ~10' or more. have never had a video of a deer attempting to smell cams that high, but did encounter it when i used to put cams at deer eye level.

Great point that may be one advantage less deer snot on the cameras. I have had a few licked by deer.

[muddy]

Man I have cams that make noise and covered in my scent and have multiple mature bucks coming in repeatedly. They stop, stare, stay on the corn and flick their ears. Same thing on mock scrapes during late October and November. Maybe I'm just lucky on private land.

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