I am Kenny Wood from califonia , 5 years hunter, love bowhunting ,fishing .
The trail camera is a very useful tool in my hunting, I owed 7 trail camera in the past few years, I owned 2 no brand trail cams, 1 bushnell , 1 spypoint ,and 3 acorn cameras 5310, most of them were purchased from the local store. One was purchased from ebay , and the acorn camera was purchase from a website www.acorncamera.com.
But the bushnell and 1 no brand trail camera broken last month,I need to buy two more trail camera for the farm security and wildlife scouting.Could you guys give me some advice?
I never buy other brands and I have no idea what models are come with good quality and low price...
I don't need MMS module ,just only think about basic trail cams.
Your kindly advice would be highly appreciate!

Kenny Wood

cheap camera's can be very hit and miss, some will have great luck, others will get JUNK

the problem lays with the price difference between TOP shelf HIGH quality and OK cam's is a BIG difference
BUT that's the game in cam's

the top shelf one's WORK

everything else can be hit and miss

I think alot has to do with how they get shipped, there electronic's
if they get abused in the box/packing, I think you can end up with a lemon
if you get one that seen a easy ride to the store from maker, you end up with a decent camera's?

then come use, moisture is your enemy I think on cam's

then come battery's and even more so SD cards
NOT all camera's will work with JUST a ANY name brand SD card
some are very picky

I have been using trail cam's since the late 90's
35 mm film jobs and even still have some that still work, again they were far from cheap back then, 500+ bucks, and only got MAYBE 36 pic's out of a roll of film! HAHA!

I personally have had over 80+ cam's over the yrs, have tried the cheap models, the high end stuff and things in between
top shelf cam's just plain work, but they are costly when they get stolen(my biggest issue with cam's, rotten crooks/trespassers)

as for the middle of the road cam's
I think I have had my BEST luck with Cuddy Back cam's, if I had to pick a brand here
second would be Wild-game innovation, BUT they have been very HIT and miss,m to be honest, some models have been flawless and others terrible, and they keep changing modes, so hard to say BUY this model??
some of my Moltrie's have been long life'd cam's have a few that ran 24/7 for 6+ yrs now, on solar packs
BUT they miss so many pictures they SUCK to me, very slow wake up time, and trigger speeds
so I won't recommend them unless your placing them over a feeder or bait station?
haven't tried a NEW model off them in 4 yrs, so maybe they got better??

Bushnells > I have had a a bunch, last batch we got at my hunting camp, we ordered 8 of them, of the 8, 3 worked flawless, others all got sent back at least 2 times?
some work today, then don't tomorrow and then work again , we stopped using them due to not reliable
I find this with MANY camera's
which brings me back to moisture, I think some days condensation, and humidity plays heck on the circuit boards and causes brain Farts of sorts
then when they dry out right, back to good again??

I have gotten a few cam's to work better buy taking apart and cleaning all soldering points with Alcohol and a Q tip, or spraying down on with good contact cleaner
BUT then cam's STICK for a while LOL

there is NO perfect camera that is CHEAP, bottom line

there all kinda of a gamble, when your buying by price tag alone!
just be prepared to possibly get a cam that is SO SO< NOT perfect

there still great tools and most all NEW one's work decent for a while
cheap, things are made to be throw away and to be replaced! when they fail
we live in a throw away world, where stores and companys think we are endless sources of spending to BUY more when they fail!
reputation and pride in a product has LONG left the game!
rather sell you more, than make something that lasts!

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