Originally Posted by
pnut
What's your source on this?
I haven't heard anything bad about new Scoutguards.
I have an 08' model that I love and a buddy got one right before fall and it works the same as mine.
A friend of mine has one of the original ScoutGuards and loves it. I have 5 trailcams now and was thinking of adding to my collection w/ a ScoutGuard since he loves his. I was telling him i was going to get one and he said to hold up. He did some research because he, he too, was going to get another one. I guess the word got out that these were great cameras and the company started outsourcing their production and parts to some Chinese company and they started using cheaper parts and cameras in their new models to make a larger profit. Whenever this happened, Bushnell starting using the same cameras in the Trophy Cam that ScoutGuard had in their original cameras. so basically, the Bushnell Trophy Cam is a ScoutGuard550, original model, in a Bushnell case.
http://www.chasingame.com/index.php?id=29
http://www.trailcampro.com/bushnellt...uardsg550.aspx
Check these websites out. These 2 cameras are not that much different. But overall, sounds like the internal parts in the ScoutGuard got downgraded w/ their new models. Not that big of a change though.