I have a couple of $100 gift cards from Bass Pro and would like to buy 1 or 2 deer cameras would I be wasting my time buying the cameras on sale in the $100 price range? Anybody have any luck with the cheaper cameras? I won't buy a high dollar camera to use at our lease pasture because trespassers would steal it if they found it. I would like to get some pictures of bucks but also pictures of the trespassers!
I had some gift cards from there too and bought this Browning, it's been great in day/night pics and battery life is still good after 4k pics. The other Browning model I bought at Atwoods takes blurry night pics.
Here's the bass pro one.
http://www.basspro.com/Browning-Strike-Force-HD-Game-Camera/product/15022708321225/
Here's the bass pro one.
http://www.basspro.com/Browning-Strike-Force-HD-Game-Camera/product/15022708321225/
I have a Primos TRUTH CAM 02 and couple older Moultrie's M80's. The Primos is equal during the day but blurry on the night time pictures. I haven't used the newer ones, but read that GEN 2 Moultrie are much better then the current Gen 1's. Bass pro carries both. Personally the Browning above will be the next one I try as I replace my older ones.
Here's another vote for the browning. Good range, both daytime and night pics are very good and one set of batteries lasts a very long time. We had a woodpecker attack our Browning last year. He tore off the smoked cover of the light receiver so I took the one out of an old Tasco and replaced it. It's been working perfect all year.
I try to pick up one good camera a year and have my eye on another browning.
Here's my other cams and my thoughts;
Tasco cheapies are great close to feeders, but the "real" flash is annoying and will scare some critters off. Eventually the flash dies and takes the board inside out with it.
Wildgame Innovations Cameras: quality has been getting much better recently. we have one short range (25 feet I think) that has been taking great photos of critters at a remote feeder. We use the camera there because batteries last forever and you can fit a TON of the lower MP pics on one card. the "IR" flash works great but the range is about 1/2 of what the daytime range is.
Bushnell Cameras: Battery life is hit-or-miss. Lots of "wind" pics (like waving grass or leaves), the LCD interface is old-school and hard to navigate. some features may have changed, but the one we are using that we bought in 2013 is just "okay" when it dies it will not be replaced.
Moultre: Want a camera that will fill up a card with photos of nothing? This is the camera for you! We have three of them (Thanks to a Christmas gift). We've tried every configuration we can: shade, sun, all different angles, even strait down under a hog feeder, and we still got 4-5K pictures of pretty much nothing. So many bad pics, it's hard to find photos with content you want to view. SUCKS! Apparently, they're known for this. We have yet to find a way to use these cameras effectively. On the up-side, the pictures are pretty clear and a lot of them can be stored on one SD card. but they took so many photos we could string them together and watch the shadows move across the ground.
Just this mans opinion. I can't recommend any of them except the Browning. The Truth cams seem to be getting good reviews but I've not used one.
I try to pick up one good camera a year and have my eye on another browning.
Here's my other cams and my thoughts;
Tasco cheapies are great close to feeders, but the "real" flash is annoying and will scare some critters off. Eventually the flash dies and takes the board inside out with it.
Wildgame Innovations Cameras: quality has been getting much better recently. we have one short range (25 feet I think) that has been taking great photos of critters at a remote feeder. We use the camera there because batteries last forever and you can fit a TON of the lower MP pics on one card. the "IR" flash works great but the range is about 1/2 of what the daytime range is.
Bushnell Cameras: Battery life is hit-or-miss. Lots of "wind" pics (like waving grass or leaves), the LCD interface is old-school and hard to navigate. some features may have changed, but the one we are using that we bought in 2013 is just "okay" when it dies it will not be replaced.
Moultre: Want a camera that will fill up a card with photos of nothing? This is the camera for you! We have three of them (Thanks to a Christmas gift). We've tried every configuration we can: shade, sun, all different angles, even strait down under a hog feeder, and we still got 4-5K pictures of pretty much nothing. So many bad pics, it's hard to find photos with content you want to view. SUCKS! Apparently, they're known for this. We have yet to find a way to use these cameras effectively. On the up-side, the pictures are pretty clear and a lot of them can be stored on one SD card. but they took so many photos we could string them together and watch the shadows move across the ground.
Just this mans opinion. I can't recommend any of them except the Browning. The Truth cams seem to be getting good reviews but I've not used one.
I've got six of these Strike Force cameras and love them. For me, battery life is best I've ever gotten out of any other camera, and the picture quality is very good (day and night).
I highly recommend them, and I originally bought mine because they got such high praise on Trailcampro.com.
It doesn't matter what camera you have. Be sure to turn it on when you leave.......Don't ask me how I know this.....
Ha I still believe somebody turn mine off instead of me for getting to turn it on. Makes more since
I bought a Wildgame Innovations 6x or 6 blade, something like that, got it from Academy for $59.99 about a month ago. It's been excellent the 3 weeks it's been in service this year. My buddy has the same one and it's been doing fine since last year.
Brownings are great cameras. Just make sure its the newer 10mp ones. I have 4 of the 6 and 8mp ones. They are great in every area except picture quality. The newer 10mp cameras have great pictures.
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