One more ? on trail cams...


Huntress

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Sorry for bugging y'all to death about cams...

I'll quit (eventually)...

I am looking at two different models...

I tried to link them but our school computers won't let us look at Bass Pro or Walmarts websites... mad.gif

The first is a Moultrie 2.1 Megapixel Digital with time and date stamps for 99.99 at Bass Pro.

I can't remember the brand of the other. It is at Walmart for about 100.00 as well. It is a digital with time and date as well. It is not the cheapo from Walmart.

If you have the time, maybe you could go to the websites and look at each and tell me what you think.

100.00 is about my price range...if I would help me considerably, I could probably go 120.

Thanks guys!

Marijane

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Re: One more ? on trail cams...

Huntress,

I use a wildview extreme 2.0mp digital cam. You can pick these up on ebay for under 100 and they will do the job for you. The ones at walmart are only the 0.3 mp and take blurry pics w/ no time or date stamp. Get the 2.0 and you will be plenty happy. One thing about the moultrie game spys your looking at is they are about twice the width(from front to back) of the wildview cams and they way they strap to the tree is different. My buddy at work got the moultrie game spy 2.0 at cabelas a few weeks ago for 79.99 on sale. You can prob get them for that price on ebay as well. It looked alot more confusing to set up then my wildview is. So just some things to take into consideration.

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Re: One more ? on trail cams...

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Me and my buddie have these and our are great. I love mine to death and thinking of buying another.

The pics are really good quality IMO and the battery life last a long while depending on how you set up your timers/flash/etc...

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Which ones are you referring to?

Thanks for all the help guys...this board has helped me and it's not even season yet.

Marijane

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Re: One more ? on trail cams...

Just remember this on those cams. You get what you pay for. With those cams, seems you might get lucky and get a good one the first time around, you might not. Even if you get a good one, how good on these moultrie cams are the trigger times, how effective is the pir detection range, how strong is the flash, and how reliable in general is the cam going to be.

Have read that some of those cams have to be placed so close to the trail due to poor detection range. If you couple that with a weak trigger time you will be missing what is triggering the cam.

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Re: One more ? on trail cams...

I have the Moultrie 2.1 and used it last year just once for a couple of days. (Got it for Christmas). It worked good, the pictures were pretty clear. The trigger is a little slow so corn(where legal) or salt will be needed to slow them down and keep them around for a minute or so. I was able to get a picture of the doe I shot in muzzleloader season minutes before I shot her! True, you get what you pay for but you still have to buy within your bedget! I'd recommend it!

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I orginally had the elcheapo Stealth cam that took 35mm film and cost around $59...worked great and really no complaints. Decided to upgrade to digital so I could keep what I wanted and delete what I didn't. Bought a Wildview extreme 3 at Bass Pro for around $120. Takes nice pics. and again (so far) no complaints!

I think you can get a lemon no matter how much you spend...I hear just as many complaints about expensive cams as I do about cheap ones!

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I own two of the moultries, and i have got no complaints. Yeah, they may not be quite as nice as others, but they do good enough for me.

I would recommend them also.

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