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Best Trail Cam for winter months??
« on: November 23, 2018, 02:19:22 PM »
Looking for which cameras work the best for cold weather??  NE corner of the state with 100% of snow. 

Thanks in advance. 

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Re: Best Trail Cam for winter months??
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2018, 10:16:39 PM »
I use cuddeback in the winter up high in the snow and they work flawlessly but they do go through batteries every 6-8 weeks

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Re: Best Trail Cam for winter months??
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2018, 10:25:50 PM »
lithium batts in the winter



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Re: Best Trail Cam for winter months??
« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2018, 12:08:03 PM »
lithium batts in the winter
any brand better than the rest?
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Re: Best Trail Cam for winter months??
« Reply #4 on: November 24, 2018, 12:20:55 PM »
I just use energizer lithium like these

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Re: Best Trail Cam for winter months??
« Reply #5 on: November 24, 2018, 01:26:53 PM »
I had a bushnell agresser trail cam I set up at the end of deer season last year at 4500’. Could not get to it till this year at during deer season. To my surprise it had over 1000 pictures and took pictures of me going to pick it up and had 1 bar of battery left. I used rayovac high energy alkaline batteries. They are pretty inexpensive

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Re: Best Trail Cam for winter months??
« Reply #6 on: November 24, 2018, 04:19:51 PM »
He's in the NE corner, it gets cold at times.  It's the below zero temps that kill alkalines. 

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Re: Best Trail Cam for winter months??
« Reply #7 on: November 24, 2018, 04:33:04 PM »
I would definitely run lithiums.
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Re: Best Trail Cam for winter months??
« Reply #8 on: November 24, 2018, 04:46:30 PM »
Another vote for lithiums. They are all I use in my trail cams. Last way longer.

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Re: Best Trail Cam for winter months??
« Reply #9 on: November 24, 2018, 05:22:23 PM »
I leave my cams out year round.  Use energizer ultimate lithiums.  I get easy 12-14 month battery life, even leaving them out over winter.  I use bushnells.

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Re: Best Trail Cam for winter months??
« Reply #10 on: November 24, 2018, 06:12:52 PM »
Here on the wet side of the state, I like to "challenge" my cams to see what they're made of  :chuckle:.  I use a hodge-podge of cams, not really any high end ones, and do my best to abuse them to see how they do.  This one was put out this morning, on the edge of a walk in road CC, on a Blacktail trail, leading out of the most heinous patch of bedding jack fir  you've ever seen.  This one is an older Stealth cam.... We'll see how it does in the open, in the rain, for a few months  8)

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Re: Best Trail Cam for winter months??
« Reply #11 on: November 24, 2018, 06:13:17 PM »
Couldnt agree more with using lithium batteries. As far as camera, I think any half decent camera would work fine in the winter months.

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Re: Best Trail Cam for winter months??
« Reply #12 on: November 24, 2018, 06:34:56 PM »
Here on the wet side of the state, I like to "challenge" my cams to see what they're made of  :chuckle:.  I use a hodge-podge of cams, not really any high end ones, and do my best to abuse them to see how they do.  This one was put out this morning, on the edge of a walk in road CC, on a Blacktail trail, leading out of the most heinous patch of bedding jack fir  you've ever seen.  This one is an older Stealth cam.... We'll see how it does in the open, in the rain, for a few months  8).

Couple things.  Putting the cam up on a slender trunked tree like that...  a little wind is going to blow it around, giving you lots of b.s. pics.  And swing the arm of that mount in so the cam is up against the tree, that will make it less noticeable.

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Re: Best Trail Cam for winter months??
« Reply #13 on: November 24, 2018, 06:39:39 PM »
Here on the wet side of the state, I like to "challenge" my cams to see what they're made of  :chuckle:.  I use a hodge-podge of cams, not really any high end ones, and do my best to abuse them to see how they do.  This one was put out this morning, on the edge of a walk in road CC, on a Blacktail trail, leading out of the most heinous patch of bedding jack fir  you've ever seen.  This one is an older Stealth cam.... We'll see how it does in the open, in the rain, for a few months  8).

Couple things.  Putting the cam up on a slender trunked tree like that...  a little wind is going to blow it around, giving you lots of b.s. pics.  And swing the arm of that mount in so the cam is up against the tree, that will make it less noticeable.

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Re: Best Trail Cam for winter months??
« Reply #14 on: November 24, 2018, 07:43:04 PM »
I had a bushnell agresser trail cam I set up at the end of deer season last year at 4500’. Could not get to it till this year at during deer season. To my surprise it had over 1000 pictures and took pictures of me going to pick it up and had 1 bar of battery left. I used rayovac high energy alkaline batteries. They are pretty inexpensive



He's in the NE corner, it gets cold at times.  It's the below zero temps that kill alkalines. 


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