I'm planning on buying a few more trail cams this winter. At this point I have one Moultrie (I think it's an A25 or 30) that I set up near a scrape on my son's property. It takes decent pics and I'm leaning towards buying a few more of them since they are simple to set-up, seem reliable and are relatively inexpensive. I'm just trying to keep it simple at this point.

I have Brownings and Moultries... I like both.

Best I had were Bushnell HD. I had those fail too, and other brand seemed to have a higher failure rate. My SD cards also don't like the moisture. PNY seem to crap out pretty quick. I agree that ease of programming is a huge plus.

Is there a reasonably priced trailcam with a totally invisible flash?

Reviews on trail cameras are all over the place, with none that I have seen getting strong reviews across the board. I think you have to ask yourself what you want the camera to do. I don't need quality photos. I just want to know what's there. I want decent range and low to no glow flash. Being somewhat technologically challenged, I like simplicity.

I have been using several variants of these for 3 years. https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1019416363 I am happy enough with them. They have been very reliable. Range is okay. Image quality can go from good with little movement daylight shots to poor with moving night time shots. On balance I am happy with them as they do what I want them to do. At the price you could treat them as disposable.

Check camofire.com they run specials on cameras from time to time.

I bought one of the Browning trail cams this year and quickly switched the setting from individual pictures with the IR flash to the video setting which I didn't think that I needed when I bought it, but I'm sure glad it is there. Local dogs in the neighborhood keep all the deer activity until after dark and individual pictures blur because of the longer exposure for night time shots. The 20 second videos are great and if I want a still shot, I just freeze frame the video on my computer and take a shot of that with my cell phone.

Pretty much my experience. 10 second videos are pretty cool. First Browning I've had and am impressed after about 10 months of use. Fashioned a little sheet metal shed to go over it to divert the worst downpours and ice. Had a Primos top end before that puked. Didn't use it for a few months after I got it then it slowly went bad. Sucked batteries bad. Wouldn't hold settings. Finally just died. Barely out of warranty but no help from Primos on replacement. Offered one for half of list price but that's doable a lot of places. Also had a set of their electronic ear muffs that puked just our of warranty too. Needless to say no more Primos electronics for me.

Thanks for the feedback. The Stealth cams are similar to the Moultrie I have. Maybe a little cheaper. I'm not inclined to spend a bunch of money on cameras I'm leaving on someone else's property as they may get stolen. Just about everyone I know that has a few cameras out has had that happen.

Funny thing about the Primos story. The first camera I bought was a Primos Truth 64. Hard to set up. Settings changed inadvertently. Would take bursts of 10-15 pics of the same thing. Sucked batteries. Tossed it after one season out of frustration.

I like 20 second video on my three Browning trail cams........This buck I killed 10 days later:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH_mYJ3GWUw

Checked our cheap Muddy cameras.
Seem to work OK, nothing super great.
Never saw this buck all last yr, showed up daylight this morning LOL
I'd like to zip him in October w my recurve

Beautiful frame on that buck, hookeye. Put another year on him and 30 more inches of antler mass and there would be another shoulder mount in your future. Really dark tarsal glands for this late in the season, so you must be having a secondary rut in your neighborhood. The doe fawns of the year have their first estrus period a month or so later than the more mature does.

I really like browning as I only run video on my cameras and have been pleased this season with it.This camera has lasted on one set of batteries and uses 32gb that I switch out every trip to my lease. I would recommend getting one of the browning cameras that uses larger sd cards as videos take a fair amount of space.

Buck and raccoons

https://youtu.be/d3-vsMNZdYI

Hog city

https://youtu.be/ZRdQ13obuho

Razorbacks

https://youtu.be/FYmGqum8ScI

Big buck

https://youtu.be/yC00LkV648I

These are the best cameras I've ever used.

https://www.wildgameinnovations.com...shadow-micro-cam-lightsout/category/559/

I get absolutely zero false pictures on them as well.

Got 3 of them now, and will probably get more.

They sell them at Tractor Supply cheaper than the $129 list price.

They will light up, and detect 75 feet away from the camera.



What a game camera SHOULD be!