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Cellular Trail Cameras

Who is using them?

Just purchased my retirement home on 24 acres back in PA, mostly wooded except 3 food plots the seller added the past few years, I am flying back to close the deal in two weeks then need to come back to CA to finish up a project before I retire. It has 3 food plots and 2 elevated platform deer blinds. Want to put several Cellular Trail Cameras around see what goes on in the plots. Plan to officially retire Sept 1 and want to be ready for archery season.

I have no ideal on what brand to get but at looking at Spypoint they seem to have reasonable monthly plans that have no activation fee so I can start or stop the plans.

So what are you using?

Next step is to clean up the food plots. Never worked with food plots so will need help..

I have a couple of Tactacam Reveals and a new Reveal X on order. Great pictures, easy pay plans and they are relatively low cost at $120 for the Reveal X and $99 for the Reveal.

+1 for Tactacam if/when you can find them.

I use an ARLO home security camera with a solar charger. Does night vision and makes great videos. Seems to connect well to the internet even in ultra remote areas where cell phone reception is iffy. The cool thing is you can review past videos anytime on any device, or jump in real-time and see what's going on. You can even speak through it if you have a reason to.

Another vote for tactacam. Much better than my moultrie.

Boys on the East Texas lease have tactacam. They like them.

I've heard good things about the tactacam.

I have a moultrie, hard on batteries but the new Moultrie Deltas are supposed to be 50% better on battery life I am going to get one on order.

A buddy has a spypoint he's has been using it for years. He likes it. The pics can be a little grainy. But when he pulls the card the pics are great. Plus side is I can sign up for his plan and see the pics as well.

What area of PA is your place? I'm in Warren County

Tactacam Reveal

Take a look at the cuddle link system. It won’t send images to your cell phone, but it will send them to a single location so you can check all your cameras without disturbing each one. No monthly fee.

I have three Bushnell Trophy Cam cameras, of different age vintages. Use all three, on my farm, and around the house when not needed at the farm. They have become an indispensable tool for keeping track of movement, both 2 and 4 legged.
Colorado now says you can't have a wireless trail cam in your hunt area active the day before, or the day of, your hunt. So, I just take them down the day before I intend to hunt at the farm, put them back up when I leave.

I have two Spypoint cellular cameras, a Link Dark and a Link Micro. They work but I can't say they're not without issues. The dark was replaced under warranty once but has been trouble free since (2yrs). The Micro has gone down a couple times and has been resolved by downloading a firmware update and installing in the camera. Not a huge deal when it's in your backyard, but a PIA when it's 400 miles away at the cabin. On the plus side, battery life is great and the plans are flexible and not that expensive.

I use a Creative XP. My thoughts on it are here: https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbt...lar-trail-camera-with-solar#Post16112853

Love those Tactacams. Have a bunch up on my place and very helpful. Was just out there working and all was good. Today I get pics of cattle in front of my east side camera. Call my neighbor, he apologized and hustled his cows off my place. Without the emails coming in, they would have been munching away for days on there.

It is just off route 6 about 10 minutes East of Coudersport. Grew up in Wyoming county but started going to Potter to my Uncles camp since I was 8. Had several small camps over the years this will be my retirement home/camp.

Tacticams have ran flawless for me. Lithium batteries in them and i had 2 cams run a full calender year on one set. You cannot go wrong for $100

I was trying to find a Tacicams Revel X but they are sold out except if you want to pay 3x the normal cost for one on Amazon.

Next I called Moultrie to find out about the Delta's looks like it would work BUT when I called they were closing and

THEY ARE CLOSED TOMORROW FOR JUNETEENTH? WTF

Moultrie is a "woke" business?

Well good and bad on the Tactacam. My first generation version has stopped taking night pics. Get pics but they are totally blacked out. Buddy thought it had to do with an IR shield malfunction. Don't know and its not close enough to grab for a bit. Upside, Tactacam has been very responsive on emails today.

The Tactacam Reveal X is in stock at Scheels for $119 and free shipping. Ordered another today.

The Scheels website says they are out of the Camera they only had the security box

I may have got one of the last ones then.

Kind of enjoying the instant gratification of seeing critters on the cams. This guy best keep his head down later this year.

I had excellent service with Browning wireless cameras last year . I had to call customer service twice with questions because I’m not very good with electronic devices and both times I was pleasantly surprised when I spoke a very friendly and helpful lady in Alabama. It means a lot to me to call CS and not have to try to communicate with someone in India that can barely speak English

@ tacti cams, want 2 more, they work great, get the pics right now , night time needs to be close to the deer, don't use delay and I use 3 timed.
Batteries last a long time.

Thought the tactacam was discontinued? I need 2 for this year also.

I just received 4 more from a 1 month back order from Gander. Out of stock now everywhere it looks like.

SPYPOINT sucks. I’ve had nothing but problems with them. Avoid at all costs.

This X 1000

I’ve got some Cuddeback Cuddelink cellular cameras I’ve had really good luck out of. Sends all pics across a wireless network through each camera and then to the main hub. Then the main hub sends them over cellular to your phone/email.

I'm sorry to hear this. I just bought a Spypoint. It is working for now.

I have some cell cameras.

Best ones are my Stealth Cams. Long battery life. Work the settings from the app.

Have one at a supplemental feeding area at the back of the ranch, and one at the front gate.

What model?

Fusion.

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Tactacam reveal x.




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Anybody using the Bushnell line up of cellular trail cams?

Tactacam RevealX

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Potter County East of Coudersport



I ended buying 2 Moultrie Delta's, been 6 weeks on the batteries and they are 60% power level.

I have the SPYPOINT link micros (4), two of the SPYPOINT cell links to turn old cams into cell cams and two of the tactacams (one original and one X). All of them work, the SPYPOINTs can be a little grainy compared to the tactacam, but I can pull an hd pic if I see something I want more detail on. The tactacam has the HD request as well but the pics haven’t been as clear. I had one of the SPYPOINTs stop taking pics but a quick firmware update got it working again.

Nice thing about the SPYPOINTs is I don’t have to buy a plan if it takes less than 100 pics a month. Unfortunately at my place that is the case 90% of the time. The times I go over I just wait until the next month starts, usually in a few days.

I switched from Spypoint to the Cuddeback connect wireless system. I’ve only got one spot on my place I can get signal so that’s where the hub goes, and then I run the other cameras in other spots. I’ve got 2 cameras set at about 500-600 yard intervals and they transmit to the hub fine through thick brush.

I would waste the gas to set my spypoints on fire. I disliked them so much that I refuse to sell them to someone else. They work fine for a regular trail camera, but the signal sucked, their system sucked worse, and the customer service is less than worthless. Eff you see kay - Spypoint.

what I used before I had to hang it up.

We have WYSE cameras that are on WIFI. The camera is a few feet from the back of my house. There is a base station in the house [WIFI to network]

The cameras are so cheap it is not worth mentioning. The software comes with the cameras.

I will make a 2,000 mile round trip in October to go deer hunting.
It is illegal to hunt in the city where I am now. I am backed up to a park, full of hikers.

I am taking videos of the deer, rabbits, and raccoons, to make sure they are not getting inside the garden fence.
I have bird screens built around the fruit trees.

I use Spartan gocams. Great camera but a little pricey. Just ordered 2 tactacams to try.

I've had several different brands, but have had better luck with Moultrie than any other. I have some old Moultries that are still cranking out pics.

If you get SPYPOINT micro links, the trigger speed is very slow and nighttime picture quality is often grainy or blurry especially when animals are moving briskly. Picture quality on the cards is surprisingly good compared to the phone picture quality. I found that my cams did not send a lot of the pics so I will pull the cards regularly versus leaving out all season. The plan price seems to be very reasonable.