2006HighSierra

I've been tryin to research what i can but i honestly don't know much at all about trail cams. I have a small riverfront property in some heavy timber and brush and I want to scout for bow season. however i don't have alot of time to go and scout myself. i'm needing to keep around $150 for the cam and i've been looking at some at walmart. there is one for around 168 bucks and said it had infrared. what are your thoughts/reccomendations.

patchholder

Don't know what cam that was but maybe give the moutlrie 4.0 a try for $100 it has a fast trigger time and is supposed to be a realy good camera.

2006HighSierra

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5871129here's the link to the bushnell w/ the infrared sensor and night vision. they have this one in at my local walmart along with the moultrie. i haven't got to really look at them yet though.

RackLuster

Just within the last few days I've been turned on to the stealth i450. It's 139 at cabelas and bass pro witha $20 rebate. I bought one today, I'm going to return the wildview 4.0 that I bought last week. Initially, I'm very impressed with it. The flash is outstanding, the pictures are clear, and trigger time is around 2 seconds.

Last week I would have told you to get the wildview. Mine crapped out after only a week (it doesn't turn on anymore, the lcd just flickers) and the pictures were really blurry on one side anyway.

The i450 has really impressed me. The flash is a lot better then the moultdrie d40 (I know, I had one but returned it for the wildview 4.0 ) and takes better pictures. If you do get the stealth you'll eventually probably want to get the 12 volt battery kit $37. It's not the best on batteries, frankly I think it drains batteries faster thent the d40 because it's a much better performing camera. It seems to be all about tradeoffs with these low end cameras. Maybe one day there will be a low priced cam that doesn't have any serious downsides - the i450 is as close as I've seen.
Keep in mind that the moultrie d40 has a 'sleep mode' after there is no activity for 2 mintues. After 2 minutes it will take 'a few' seconds to take the pic. So, please don't buy the d40 for their 1 second trigger time claims - it's bogus!

Make sure to check out www.chasingame.com and read there reviews. Although, personally I think they are hesitant over there to write a bad review for some reason.

good luck

2006HighSierra

well for an update a got a moultrie gamewatcher 2.1. walmart had them marked down on sale to $79 and I had a $32 on a gift card. I'm gonna test it out sometime early next month on my hunting property, anyone have one of these cams?