30 Dollar Trail Cam Again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hunter399]

Sorry guys ......
I do realize cheap cams are not for everybody.
And there is only a handful of cams made in the USA.
There about like rifles scopes,even assembled here ,most parts are from China.


I'm not gonna say these are junk before trying it out.
But will say next time I'll keep my link to myself next time.
Good day all.

[Dan-o]

Sorry guys ......
I do realize cheap cams are not for everybody.
And there is only a handful of cams made in the USA.
There about like rifles scopes,even assembled here ,most parts are from China.


I'm not gonna say these are junk before trying it out.
But will say next time I'll keep my link to myself next time.
Good day all.

No need to keep it to yourself. 

I ordered a couple more, thanks to your link.

 

[hunter399]

Sorry guys ......
I do realize cheap cams are not for everybody.
And there is only a handful of cams made in the USA.
There about like rifles scopes,even assembled here ,most parts are from China.


I'm not gonna say these are junk before trying it out.
But will say next time I'll keep my link to myself next time.
Good day all.

No need to keep it to yourself. 

I ordered a couple more, thanks to your link.

 

Thanks
Ya I mean I know some people love the higher end stuff.
But for a guy just starting out with trail cams.
It's a pretty good deal to get started.
Showed a guy last week about it.
Here he has got feeder ,tree stand,all this stuff,and no trail cam. So I showed him,sent him a link by text.
He always talks I got this buck or that buck ,I'm like man you got to put a cam out . How do you know you don't have a few giants in there that show at nite when your not watching it.
He said he was gonna get one.

Hope the link helps somebody get started or maybe replace a stolen one,or whatever the case may be.

[D-Rock425]

I appreciate the link. 

[huntnnw]

There’s nothing more expensive then a cheap cam.

-they rarely last more than a year
-battery life sucks
-they corrupted SD cards
-take horrible pictures
-terrible sensitivity

I bought three cheapies a couple of years ago. They all don’t work anymore and two corrupted SD cards. I’m in the hole (+batteries) $150. Not to mention marginal performance. At the same time I bought a high end Browning at the same cost of three discount cams. It takes great pictures, batteries last almost a year, 32mb card fills up before batteries are dead, and it still works. The way I see it it cost me $300. Buy once cry once. But I do have three decoy cams now?

Everything you wrote couldn’t be more opposite. I’ll never buy expensive cams again. I’ve been running cams since the 35mm cam days. One thing I’ve learned electronics in the elements have a life and it doesn’t matter how much you spend. I have some $35-$50 cams that have never done what you wrote above, left some out a year snd still taking pics when I retrieve them. What I don’t worry about is if they break , bear eats them or someone steals them cause they were cheap. One of the worst cold weather cams I ever owned was a “high end” at the time $250 cam. Pos. Most don’t even test to see how they perform in sub 30 deg weather on deer size animals.  You might be surprised at results

[duckmen1]

I haven't bought any cheap ones yet. But I buy higher end cameras and have had results all over the board.
1. Moultrie. Batteries only lasted 2 weeks a shot
2. Stealth cam pretty expensive one. Camera would detect on setup. After leaving sensor would not detect any animals or even you upon returning. Kept reseting and trying again. Same results
3. Multiple bushnell trophies had fire issues and melted wiring. Few that did last worked great for many years.
4. Browning. 2nd time putting one out camera malfunctioned and wouldn't turn back on. 2nd camera had issues within first year of not wanting to turn back on too. Both no good anymore. 3rd camera functions great.
5. Cuddybacks. For the most part bulletproof. Only one out of 4 had shutter issues causing pink daytime pics but to this day works great. All have functioned flawless for years. Although one got stolen not this season but last season in pierce county during a late muzzly/archery season. So big loss on cost.

But due to price, theft, reliability issues, etc I think I am ready to try my chances on some of the cheaper ones. The specs on some of the cameras on amazon are more less the same of all the name brand.

[Emptyhanded]

I’ve had a couple of the muddy cams out since October. I typically run the cheap stealth cams. The controls on the muddy and the stealth cam are almost identical. I would not be surprised if the same Chinese kids are building both brands. The trigger is a little slow on them but they get the job done. Battery life seems on par with the stealth cams. Definitely worth the $30.


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[huntnnw]

got 4 of the wildview 12mp for $35 15 months ago. all have worked great some have over 100k pics.

[hunter399]

I'm over it.
I'm surprised these have stayed in stock this long.
I've told a lot people about them.
There gonna run out soon I'm sure.

[hunter399]

BOOM!!!!!
Ordered these right before I shared link.
BAM!!!!!
Just showed up ,gonna be trying these bad boys out.

[luvmystang67]

There's a 3 pack of StealthCam BT14's on sale at North 40 for $100.  Not bad either.

[salt n sage90]

I've been running cams for 5 years now on both sides of the mountains. If I have learned anything its that every individual camera is different. I've run primos, stealth, bushnell, (30$ - 75$).

Problems:
-moisture
-corrupt SDs
-bears

Its just part of the game. I wont take the plunge on expensive cameras because I like to shotgun them out there. Ill have 3 cameras all within a football field size spot just to see whats around. If one malfunctions I take it down and replace it with one I have tested at home. Its a miracle when they last through the winter. Havent had a problem with battery life yet unless wind is involved. Little thing im trying is putting one of those moisture absorbing packets inside the camera to draw moisture away from the batteries, and also taping around the seals.

I ordered my father in law 2 of these muddy cams. If they dont work out Ill try another brand. the more cams out there the better, I like seeing the pictures, especially those backcountry ones.

[hunter399]

Like said ,buy if you like cheap cams.
If you don't like cheap cams ,or already have enough that's great too.
I got mine ,so I'm not worried .Got a few friends that said there's are gonna show up soon.

Everybody Have a
Merry Christmas.

[millerwheeler]

Most of mine are Tasco 10mp on sale all the time at Walmart for 19.99 and 5 years and  I have about 26 currently out and leave them all year long I have lost 2 to weather and 2 to theft in 5 years there good enough my wife bought me some steath cams last Xmas I have yet to use but there going up in February

[bornhunter]

Do any of these have the built in viewer or do they have to be plugged into a computer?