Who makes the best trail Camera? Easy to use and reliable.I know it's not a retriever question/ but hunting season is over and i am having post season depression so I am already thinking about what i am doing for deer hunting next season. I went to two local sporting good store and it is so bad all I bought was a two heeling sticks. That is sadd.
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Who makes the best trail Camera? Easy to use and reliable.I know it's not a retriever question/ but hunting season is over and i am having post season depression so I am already thinking about what i am doing for deer hunting next season. I went to two local sporting good store and it is so bad all I bought was a two heeling sticks. That is sadd.
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Bushnell Trophy Cam - hands down! The picture quality is as good as you will find (8mgpx) and they use AA batteries. You may have to put new batteries in it one time during the entire year - year, not season. I have 3 of them and it seems like someone on my ranch is putting new "D" batteries in their cameras every week.
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The Wildgame Innovations X6c, but I am partial since the company I work for Makes them. Seriously, they have been a really good unit for us.
For the price I think the Bushnell Trophy Cams are hard to beat and I have tried most of the brands that you will find at a Cabelas or Bass Pro. Trophy Cams are easy to set up, VERY small, reasonable sensitivity, reasonable trigger speed and good pics. But you asked for the "best". Of the ones that I have tried, the Reconyx are the best thing out there. More convenient set up, more sensitive and faster trigger speed ....and about the same size as the Trophy cam. I have set them up side by side with 4-5 of the major brands and they have come out on top every time .... more pics, animals more centered (fewer butt shots) and pic quality as good or better. I thihnk you would be hard pressed to find a negative review of a Reconyx trail cam ... either the camera or Reconyx customer service. Question is whether you need the best. If you are taking pics around a feeder where the deer are going to stand around for a while and where you can set the camera up perfectly, most any of the major brands will do the job. However, if you are shooting pics in a tight trail where you have to take whatever set up you can get and where the deer are moving through quickly, you will be much more satisfied with the Reconyx. I use the Trophy Cams on public land where cameras have a habit of growing wings and flying away. On private land with controlled access I use the Reconyx. REALLY hurts to walk up to a bare tree where you installed a $600 camera.
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I use the Smart Scouter camera. It will call you every day and send you the pics. I deer hunt about 50 miles from home and with high fule prices it seems the way to go. The extended battery will last three months. That means I never need to go into the woods except to hunt. The data packages run about $40 per month. That less than a tank of gas. I can change camera settings every time it calls in.
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Cuddeback makes great trailcams. I also like wildlife innovations for the price.
We just recently started an intensive management of deer on our property and trailcams have become invaluable. definitely a must.
We just recently started an intensive management of deer on our property and trailcams have become invaluable. definitely a must.
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I hunt public land but also have access to some private. Someone stealing it is a concern. We have no food plots and it is illegal to bait in my state. I would use them on trials for mule deer, Elk and scrapes and trails for whitetail. Who knows. My friend has been using them for the last few years and it has atleast let him know if their some big animals in the area. 600 bones might be a little much for me.
Fully understand ... that is why I use the Bushnell Trophy Cams on public land. I am so concerned about theft on some of the public land that I hunt that I pull my cameras of Friday afternoon and put them back on Sunday afternoon. The Trophy Cams are small enough that I can put a half dozen in a good sized day pack. I pack them in the lock box and use cable locks to attach them to tree. About all the lock box and cable lock accomplish is to keep honest people honest. The weak link is the cable lock which can easily be cut with bolt cutters. If possible set the cameras so they shoot down a trail rather than across it. This will give the camera as good of a look at the game as possible. You will get few pics worthy of hanging on your wall but they will be plenty good enough to tell you what kind of animals you have in the area
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We have used wildlife inovations, cuddlebacks, and recon X. They all are good cameras I would like to try the bushnells because we are putting those D batteries in every week. We run about 8 cameras on the ranch usually moving them every 2 weeks to a different feeder location. I would like to have the one that would sent me pics everyday but there is no cell coverage in MX where we are, I suppose I could setup a satelight phone but the cost would be high. We need to figure out a way to run those cameras on 6 or 12 volts so we could hook them up with the feeder batteries that are charged by a solar panel. Shayne are you guys turning up the protein now? We decided we are going to feed protein free choice Feb, March, April, Aug, 1/2 Sept. The thought was to get the body condition back faster and let the spring rains take care of natural protein in May June July then a little boost toward the end of antler growth. With the cost of Protein this works for our budget much better also.
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Primos makes a good one. I have seen some great pictures taken with one
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My old Moultrie was good for a few years then that and a new one I bought stopped taking night shots.They were in the shop for flash failures since sometime in December.Getting a hold of anybody there is hard either by phone or e-mails.I got an e-mail yesterday that a box is being shipped backed to me.There was no info about whether they were repaired or not.A third camera that I have from Moultrie is an infrared.It takes lousy night photos.Everything is blurred.
I think if I get a new camera ever,it won't be a Moultrie.
I think if I get a new camera ever,it won't be a Moultrie.
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