Is there a good entry level trail cam

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daver36

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So I'm looking to pick up another trail cam or two and I'm not at the point where the REALLY nice ones are an option yet. I have a stealth cam px18, but I'm not completely sold on it, I think the trigger is a little slow. Too many times I've had pics or video of the animal in the middle or end of the frame. Sometimes I had video of nothing, and there's no tall grass or branches moving around. Makes me wonder what I'm missing. Is there any other makes or models in that sorta price range that people recommend?

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Dave
 
I use wild game innovations. They hold up well and are reasonably priced. I even put a few drops of vanilla extract beside my buddies. The bear ripped it off the tree and chewed it up. Still works.
Ive had one of mine go completely under water during a flood. It still works
 
There are things you can do to help with cams that have slow triggers. Aim the camera down the trail, instead of across for one. Another thing I have started doing, is mounting the camera higher, and aiming it down. this is to help hide the red glow from deer and bear. Deer don't like it and may avoid your camera, but some will eventually ignore it regardless. Bears of course may eat it. If you don't understand "red glow" visit your camera at night and trigger it. Most have a glowing red dot, some are worse than others. Most of mine are god awful. I use cheap cams. Wild Game Innovations is a good one, I have one of theirs I did have to make a simple shelf above it to keep snow off the camera though. I also have a bunch of cams off ebay, most of them are fine. Just low resolution pics. I'm not looking for fancy pics, just seeing what's there.
 
I've got 15 Browning cams of various models all priced between 125 to 200 bucks. They have been excellent cams, they get great battery life and take good stills and videos. They are not the cheapest cams but they are not the most expensive neither. To me they are a good cam for the money.
 
Wild game inno has black out lights now theres no red glow. You are correct ive noticed larger bucks learn to avoid the cams. I think they can hear them. So far i havent noticed any bears that care in over several thousands of photos
 
Jack Robinson said:
I've got 15 Browning cams of various models all priced between 125 to 200 bucks. They have been excellent cams, they get great battery life and take good stills and videos. They are not the cheapest cams but they are not the most expensive neither. To me they are a good cam for the money.
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Agreed on the browning cams. I've been using the recon force fhd, and they have been excellent. I've had my eye on the sub micro to replace one of the fhd's which spent at least a week under water and ice this winter. Surprisingly it still powers up and takes pictures, they are just foggy and blurry now. Eventually I'll get around to tearing it apart to see if it can come back.
 
I had asked what brands/models people had success with in an older thread. A lot of people were happy with Stealthcam. I ended up getting some refurbished stealthcam cameras this winter and I have them out now to see how they work. Haven't had a chance to check them since I put them out, so I'm itching to see if I caught anything on them.

https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/for...t-Brands-of-Trail-Cameras-worked-best-for-you
 
Usually my wild game innovations are battery hogs but I left one out all winter and it was still working this spring. I have hit and miss results with almost every type I own. Bough some bushnells very hit and miss but the Bushnell Hd's have been very reliable. Had two Moultries one died in a few months one still running strong

If you are thinking of buying used you are probably buying some one elses head aches or stolen property
 
I went with a Bushnell with the blacked out light panel. It survived a Northern Ontario winter and worked with no hiccups on 1 set of batteries, isn’t a battery hog. Mine used AA batteries
 
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I had one camera with black flash from Huntten outdoors. It used C cells and was only good for about 60 days. The black flash was wonderful WRT game not noticing it, however it still made a click, and as a result they did see it now and then, as I still got nose shots. Then a moose decided to rack the tree it was in, smashed the black flash lens. The camera survived, I glued the lens back together. But night shots are so dark I don't use it for night anymore. I wired it to an external 6V battery to get longer life out of it.
 
razorbeck said:
Usually my wild game innovations are battery hogs but I left one out all winter and it was still working this spring. I have hit and miss results with almost every type I own. Bough some bushnells very hit and miss but the Bushnell Hd's have been very reliable. Had two Moultries one died in a few months one still running strong

If you are thinking of buying used you are probably buying some one elses head aches or stolen property
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Energizers lithium ion max. Theyre silver with light blue graphics. Theyll last all winter in my wild game inno cams. Any other batteries dont seem to last longer thsn 1500 photos
 
I have a dead Moultrie as well as a dead wildgame innovations.. I am on the hunt for both reliable and easy to use.. some of them are unnecessarily complicated..My spypoint seems ok but it sometimes doesn't take a single picture after a couple of weeks on a tree... not reliable
 
My 2pk of Simmons for $100 at Walmart have surprised me, I left both out all year and the one with the normal energizer AA’s was only down one bar. It was a cold and snowy winter again where we are, pic quality is middle of the road but I’m not looking for print quality shots, just a record of what’s frequenting the spot. For $50 each if one gets stolen or ####s the bed I’m not going to cry about it.

I bought a 2pk of Moultrie cams from crappy tire and they were utter garbage, I returned them.
 
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