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I am hunting in East Texas and need to get some trail cameras, what is the best for the least amount of money? Or the best bang for the buck? Tracy
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I have had great luck with the Browning Strike Force. They take great photos and videos with good battery life.
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Lots of good cameras out there on the market to choose from. Moultrie, Browning, Stealth, Cuddeback, Bushnell, Primos, wildgame, and the list goes on. I personally have used Moultrie for years with no issues and am currently running the M40-I and I have no complaints. I don't use the video feature much at all but the few times I have it was very good. The day and night pictures are great as well as battery life. I caught them on sale on black Friday for $89.99 and picked up two. Ebay is a great place to find game cameras at good prices. I've seen nothing but positive reviews on the Browning cameras and if I didn't use Moultrie i'd probably give Browning a try.
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I’ve had good luck with the browning cameras. Bushnell is hard to beat for the money. Both take good pictures. The cuddiebacks we have are also good but not sure they are worth the extra money.
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Lots of good cameras out there on the market to choose from. Moultrie, Browning, Stealth, Cuddeback, Bushnell, Primos, wildgame, and the list goes on. I personally have used Moultrie for years with no issues and am currently running the M40-I and I have no complaints. I don't use the video feature much at all but the few times I have it was very good. The day and night pictures are great as well as battery life. I caught them on sale on black Friday for $89.99 and picked up two. Ebay is a great place to find game cameras at good prices. I've seen nothing but positive reviews on the Browning cameras and if I didn't use Moultrie i'd probably give Browning a try. I just saw the Moultrie M40 for $69.99 at Academy
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I've had pretty good luck with Wildgame cams. They take OK pics. not great. I keep saying I'm going to try the browning but haven't yet. I bought a Primos Truth 2 I believe it's called. Love the pics and easy set up.
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I've had good luck with a couple of Coverts that I have. The battery life on them is outstanding.
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Lots of good cameras out there on the market to choose from. Moultrie, Browning, Stealth, Cuddeback, Bushnell, Primos, wildgame, and the list goes on. I personally have used Moultrie for years with no issues and am currently running the M40-I and I have no complaints. I don't use the video feature much at all but the few times I have it was very good. The day and night pictures are great as well as battery life. I caught them on sale on black Friday for $89.99 and picked up two. Ebay is a great place to find game cameras at good prices. I've seen nothing but positive reviews on the Browning cameras and if I didn't use Moultrie i'd probably give Browning a try. I just saw the Moultrie M40 for $69.99 at Academy The A30i Moultrie is a decent trail cam( I have 3 ) and appears to be undetectable to what it is photographing. The red flash cameras I own always have the animal looking at the camera on the 2nd and subsequent photos, if that is important to you. Maybe they make a M40i which would indicate non detectable flash as well.
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This dude was on my Covert last time I swapped out the cards...........
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I've had good luck with a couple of Coverts that I have. The battery life on them is outstanding. That's mostly what I use. The model (extreme black 60) which I've used is now discontinued. I have a dozen. In 5 years, 2 have failed. Given temps below 0 and above 100, rain, wind, and being buried under snow part of the winter, I figure that's actually pretty good. As you say, battery life is excellent. Generally I set them up with a 32G SD card and Lithium batteries. Many have spend a full year unattended and are still taking pictures when I return to them. I also have 3 Plotwatcher Pro cams. So far no issues. I only started with them 3 summers ago. If I set them up to take pix only in daylight hours, 5 seconds apart, then a 128G SD card and a set of lithium batteries lasts about 3 months. If I use alkaline instead, battery life is 3-4 weeks and a 32G SD card is marginally adequate. I'm sure cameras will continue to fail, maybe more often, so I'll need to research replacements. Tom
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Where in east Texas do you hunt. The lease I have is next to the Indian Reservation. It’s between Livingston and Woodville.
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I have some buddies that are running Browning at our lease near jasper and they swear by them. I used moultrie, promos, cuddies,wild game,cabelas outfitter(boly). Cabelas are my favorites, moultrie are close second. The 1 promos I has didn't last a year, cuddles are ok-ish but when they do break you can send them in to be fixed or exchanged (not for free, but less than the cost of a new one.) My next ones will probable be browning
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I've got a couple of the Brownings and they are very good. Long flash range. Picked up several of the Stealth cams when Simmons had them for $40. Not as good as the Brownings but allows me to cover a lot more spots for way less $$.
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have used for several years, no problems
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I used to use the Cuddeback but they have changed them and made them more expensive. We have been slowly switching to Browning as they wear out. We will run 12-15 cameras leading up to the season.
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I like cameras, and I never thought I would say that, but as I get older, they save me some boot leather time. I have had good success with Moultrie, Stealth Cam, and Primos ........................ only one that is a pia, is the Wild game, which was a gift. However they were all bought after season, for 50.00 or under,,,,,, too bad I have to be concerned about theft, but it is a reality
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YEP - Wildgame is the Tasco of cameras
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