pintail_drake2004 Posted April 12, 2010 Report Share Posted April 12, 2010 (edited) Hello gents, my brother and I have been in the market for some good trail cameras. We have used several different kinds over the years and have had mixed results. In December 09, we graduated with our Masters Degrees, and both of our projects and thesis were over using camera traps to monitor different species (mine was predators and prey, his was cervids species). During the study we used moultrie, cuddeback, and stealthcam cameras. Recently, we have had major issues with stealthcam and will never purchase another one of their products again. cuddeback cameras did not preform well in the enviroment in which our study was held-and seems as of lately their overall ratings have been going down. Moultrie cameras were kind of "iffy" on battery life. We had 30 cameras for our study and not one of them preformed like they should. Now, we are in the market for a few more trail cameras-this time for personal/client use. Bushnell Trophy Cameras have been recieving some good reviews-have any of you had much luck with them? what is their customer service like? any other camera suggestion? Thanks pintail Edited April 12, 2010 by pintail_drake2004 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted April 12, 2010 Report Share Posted April 12, 2010 Homebrews here, few issues with them from time to time, usually minor though and able to fix them myself and have them right back out within a reasonable amount of time. Have had some board issues from my pixcontroller uniboard setups, shame they don't repair them anymore. Only downside to homebrews is that you can buy cams cheaper than you can build them these days, however I would still rank the quality of pics and performance of the homebrew trail cams I have built ahead of any cams you can buy for equivalent value. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkeygirl Posted April 12, 2010 Report Share Posted April 12, 2010 Take a look at HCO Scoutguards...There's also a new one coming out, Uway Nighttracker...I have a SG...does decent for me. Though I would like to have a 2nd camera at some point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddyboman Posted April 13, 2010 Report Share Posted April 13, 2010 cuddeback Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddyboman Posted April 13, 2010 Report Share Posted April 13, 2010 I have owned several different brands and my favorite is cuddeback! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redwing Posted April 14, 2010 Report Share Posted April 14, 2010 Camera I just bought an HCO Scoutgard SG550 and so far am very happy with it. I read lots of reviews on trigger time, image quality etc. plus it has a very nice video feature also. It is a little bigger than a pop can and the nice thing is it can be securely locked up inside a steel box and lag bolted to a tree, while using your python lock to put around the tree. I didn't want to buy a camera only to have it ripped off the first week! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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