I have three and I just ordered the new no flash that they came out with. I get about 3 months worth of pics on a set of batteries. I have mine attached to the tree with the screw and I feel secure with that. I tested my Cuddebacks against a Bushnell and Stealth cam that my buddies owned, we placed them in the same tree over looking a mineral lick, left them for a week and when we checked the pics, the cuddeback had double the pics of the bushnell, and the Stealth had only taken 3 pics compared to the 22 that the Cuddeback took[:-]