I have ran both (moultrie M80). I did like the the motion freeze option on the M80 that helped with moving objects at night, but the Red40 takes better quality pics IMO and the Covert battery life kicks the snot out of the M80.
I have an m-80 and love it. I've had great battery life, and the night pictures are much brighter than I've seen from coverts on here. I do think the coverts might have a little better battery life than my m-80 and the red 40 takes some great daytime pics. I would stay away from wild game and cuddeback for sure though. Sent from my DROID RAZR HD using Tapatalk
Love my Moultrie m990i.. It takes awesome daytime pictures and its ir pictures are much brighter and clearer than covert. I also have a Covert black 60. It takes incredible daytime pictures. Some of the most clear daytime pictures I've seen. Battery life is better than the Moultrie too. The only bad thing about my Covert is the night pictures. The camera has weak ir range and takes very blurry night pictures, typically. I can't speak for the red 40 specifically, but you really can't go wrong with either of these cameras.
DLC Covert I would recommend the Covert. Great cameras and customer service. Here is you a link to catch a deal on the 2012 if you want for $120. Great price.
From personal experience the Moultrie takes better night pics than the Covert, but the Covert takes better day pics than the Moultrie. Trigger speed seems faster on the Covert and the temperature sensor seems more accurate than the Moultrie.
My next camera is the Moultrie M-880-C. It takes color day and night pictures. I currently run (6) Moultires with no problems. I have used several other trail camera brands that sucked.
I got both also (m80/m100) and Coverts. I say go with the Covert red40 from 2012 from Custom1 (deal posted) Or keep a eye on Wingsupply deals. ALL my friends locally I recommend the 2012 red40 for a first Covert. All of them have bought more Coverts. Not just saying this, but my m80 spooks alot of deer at night. Running my 2013red 40/ mpe5 in these same spots I ran my moultries since 2007 and I dont get the negative reaction to the red glow off the Coverts that I did with the M80. Keep us updated on what you end up doing either way.
I've seen you say this a few times. What do you consider negative reactions? The deer looking at the camera? I've had this also, but it didn't spook the deer at all, the deer just looked up and then back down. Sent from my DROID RAZR HD using Tapatalk
i have both and like the m880 or the 990i better imo. less blurry night time pics with them. ive had my 990i out since august on just regular batteries through that cold snap of -27 up here and it reads 53 percent still. so youd replace batteries at the end of a season anyways so i dont see much of a advantage of the longer battery life with the red 40 if they both make it through a season.
grizz- this applies to my farm here mainly, but I been around long enough(had a moultries since 2007) and notice most all of moultrie night time pictures people post and I get the deer notices the cam. to me negative reaction means they notice the cam, and next picture they are gone. either a blurred running picture or they just seemed spooked. next time they come around they got that camera pinned. If I run it on 3 picture mode, done deal they changed their pattern. I dont believe running a Moultrie up high solves the problem. I had a moultrie 15 feet up on two picture mode over my water hole rubbermaid bin in the backyard. Doe had that camera pinned after 6 shots. Not saying every moultrie is a spooking machine and redflash coverts dont get noticed, but from my year of redflash coverts vs 6 years of redflash moultrie, I am sold that the Covert is less of a spook machine then my Moultries. The flash blip is faster on a Covert that is why. Dont get me wrong, I still like the Moultrie M series. I got a M80 last fall to replace the stolen one, and a member gave me a m80/m100 (he didnt like the spooking deer). The thing I noticed with the moultries I owned is I dont trust their sensing. I am looking hard but cant find them, but last pull I had a 3 picture sequence. 1 picture every 15 seconds. Had a deer set it off acting normal, few minutes later from a different direction fresh tracks and no deer in the picture and 3rd picture is a deer bolting out of there. Other times I would get a first picture of 5 deer or like 10 turkeys feeding normally in front of the cam. Like the dropped out of the sky. No pictures since 6 hours before them and the first evening picture is 10 turkeys standing there. not bashing the m80, i do like their night time illumination alot. I just dont like their sensing and battery life is ok. but to me it comes at a price of the spooking deer and my circle of friends agree and notice it when I tell them to keep a eye with the deers reaction in their pictures.
OK, I wasn't sure what you meant by spooking exactly. Where mine is at, they notice but don't spook. I set mine farther away from the spots I put out corn though, do you think yours might have heard it too? Sent from my DROID RAZR HD using Tapatalk
grizz= I say set yours on 3 picture burst and watch them run. :D Not saying every picture is a bad reaction, but over time I took notice on the difference between my Coverts and Moultries and can make a honest answer on my moultries get noticed way more often then the coverts (red40/mpe5). i got the same reactions near and far with my m80s. Running mine on one picture mode every 15 or 30 seconds. I would see deer way in the back of the picture notice it and the deer up front not, next picture deer in the back is on the run. (not coming off as every picture my moultrie took it was like the deer was being shot at, just saying I had a fair share of negative reactions from a moultrie redflash cam vs my covert. Ideally blackflash if you are worried about spooking stuff. Just depends how deep we want to dig into the red flash scares deer discussion lol. )
as said like most started out with white flash 1 shot 1 min. later a nother take the film in and wait 1hr for pictures my first red flash cuddy 1 picture now down to 30 sec. for another on no pictures was there any sine of the deer bothered by any flash 2011 got a bushnell red flash now 3 pictures in a row then 10 sec till 3 more now first picture deer in front of cam sec. pic. deer turning 3rd pic deer running 2012 black flash 3 pictures all the same deer dinot see flash did 15 sec. videos deer walking ridht by the cam 3 to 4 ft no problem this year 8 black flash no deer running from flash you give up picture quality with black flash put deer stay on your property 3 coverts 2 moultrie moultrie better night pic. covert better flash colvert great CS they stand behind there cams
