What are your experiences with trail cams? I am thinking of purchasing atleast one maybe two. I have heard good things about the bushnell trophy cams and primos. I figured some of you would know which ones are the best.

Thanks

jimbobcooter

I have had good luck with Primos Truth Cam 35 and would recommend it.  It is a reliable camera that takes good pictures and you can buy 2 for the price of 1 Cuddeback.  It is $85.xx on Amazon.  I also have a Spypoint IR6 and a Wildgame Innovations 6.0MP.  The Spypoint works great and takes good pictures, but it was relatively expensive.  The Wildgame Innovations was a battery hog before it quit working, but it did take good pictures.  The Moultrie Game Spy D55-IRXT is worth looking at.  It has good reviews on Amazon and it is not much more than the Truth cam.  

I have had 5 cameras.  Managed to kill one a Tasco 3 mp white flash,  that I have had for 4 years. Worked very well till I fried it. i was trying to convert it over to  using 6 volt batteries and hooked it up incorrectly.  Paid $80

White Flash Cameras
wildgame 1.3 mp cheap and does not work well with C batteries.  Eats them up.  However it has a port for plugging in a 6 volt battery and that works much better.  However I still get and occasional night picture with no flash. Paid $40

Tasco 5 mp (I Think) have had this for 2 years, converted it over to 6 volt batteries and it works very well. Paid $50

Infrared Flash Cameras
Wildgame 3 mp (I think) Takes good pictures and is set up for the 6 volt and c batteries. My complaint with it is lens gets foggy way to easily and often I will get blurred pictures because of it.  It also has a Red LED flash set up that the deer tend to look at.  Sometimes it scares them off sometimes not. Paid $70

Tasco 3mp Does very well and takes  good day and night pictures. truly infrared, there is no red LED for the night flash. Paid $50  Will convert it to 6 volt after the warranty is up.

I've had good luck with Moultrie and Bushnell.  Have pretty much stopped using the Moultrie due to it using 6V batteries and not lasting more than about 3 weeks.  The Bushnell I have now (TrophyCam 5MP about two years old) takes either 4 or 8 AA's and takes great photos.







I've had it out for as long as six months, batteries still had juice when I pulled them.

Bought a Wildgame Innovations N4E a couple of months ago, haven't had it out much.  Bought it mainly for the plot watcher feature (takes a photo every so often all day).  The photos I got during short time I had it out were OK, not quite as good as the Bushnell.  Actually need to get it back in the woods.

I had an old moultrie cam with the flash that took the 6 volt batteries.  That sucker was the best camera I had ever owned.  Always had something on it when it triggered.  I had a solar charger setup and could leave it out for well over 6 months at a time with no problems.  Just needed to change the card.  The camera finally died after about 6 years use.  In the 6 years I had it I would say it spent 4 in the woods.  

After that one died I bought a Bushnell Trophy Cam.  First year it worked fine, 2nd year towards the middle of the season the camera developed the runaway trigger.  Runaway trigger is a known problem with the Bushnell cameras that they reference on their website. which is basically where a photo is taken every minute or so until the cameras full.  I did the software update which is suppose to be the fix that winter and gave it another go this year.  For the first month or so when the weather was warm the camera performed great.  Then once the temperatures cooled it started the same runaway trigger.  It seems cooler temps has something to do with this since I can leave it set up in my house and it will work fine but once I put it outside in the cold it goes nuts.  You talk about frustration....leave a camera out for 3 weeks and come back to find 2000 pictures in 3 days.  I have since retired that camera. Camera was $230 purchased new.

Since the Bushnell crapped out this year I bought a N4E wildgame innovations camera from walmart for $90.  Used it for a few weeks starting around Novermber 30th and it performed well.  Went back to walmart and they were on clearance and I picked up another for $70 and so far that one has performed great as well.  Always has something in the picture.  Night pictures can be a little blurry if the animal is moving but that was the same with my bushnell as well.  When I bought the Wildgames I also purchased the 2 year replacement which was $1 for every $10 so a $9 and $7 dollar investment with the piece of mine that if I have problems within the next 2 years I am covered.  My Bushnell was not.  From a pricing standpoint I can not justify spending the $230 again for the Bushnell which ended up having problems just outside of the 1 year warranty when I can spend roughly $180 and have 2 functioning cameras for less than the price of one that includes 2 years of replacement warranty.

Just my experiences.

I have 2 moultrie cams. Not sure what model, but they were $140ea @academy and take 8 AA batteries each.

Ive been extremely impressed with them.