Exactly why I bought them. I have $30 each in mine, and they live on public land. If they grow legs I'm not out of a Radix/Reconyx, Covert, etc.
It's also extremely nice to have something cheap and dependable laying around in case you discover one of the good cams shat itself since the last card run.
I have a stealth cam i bought in December for $50. Has worked pretty well for me. I go to move it couple weeks ago and i find that I had tightened the strap so hard that the case bowed and water got in one side with the batteries and corroded them badly. Took me 10 min to work all 4 batteries out of that side. Popped new ones in and to my disbelief it fired right up. Hoping it's been taking pics ever since.
I've gotten to where I have a carry along pack with me in the Ranger with batteries and spare cams. A few trips back and forth across the ranch taught me to be prepared. Takes me a couple of days a week to run all the cameras and the feeders and I can be three miles from headquarters so it gets irritating discovering I have to make a 20 minute round trip to get a camera set fixed. If I don't have time to get it fixed and have to come back to it, seems like I always put it off, first thing I know it's been a week and no pics being taken there. You know how deer are, you can run cameras 24/7/365 and the one day a camera is down is the very day that beast sonofa B will decide to walk in front of that spot, lol.
WGI cameras that come with cards and batteries at ****s have been working great for me for years. Have several of them and haven't had an issue with them. Many say they're hit or miss but luckily all hits for me. Primos I have used in the past and have had decent quality out of them. Ill have to stick with WGI for my "inexpensive" cameras.
Cheapy off brand cameras arrived today. I'll review them in the camera thread I started the other day.
I must have gotten all the misses. I have owned 4 Wildgame cams. Every one was junk. 2 got water inside within a month, one just stopped working all together after 6 months, one had terrible washout issues with night pics. I won't own another one if someone gave it to me.
Has to be the MPe6 and MPe5 by Covert. I got 2 of the MPe5's for $100 during a promotion... For the money you cannot beat them.
The Covert mp8 cameras are almost always under 100.00 on wing supply or amazon. Really bright daytime pictures are a bit grainy and the video bites but they're my favorite cheap camera. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Tapatalk
Video from the mp8. Pretty bad if it's bright out. Lower light is okay. Night video is actually decent. This is obviously bright daylight. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Tapatalk
That's information I'm glad to hear about, and something I don't want to support! Yeah I have 12 WGI and never had an issue with any of them. All 12mp but i do hear a lot of failures with the product. I like cuddybacks but regarding this post I mentioned my WGI
I got a bushnell essential e2 for 75 I'm really happy with. Can't speak to durability yet as it's my first year but it takes great pics for the price. Sent from my iPhone using Bowhunting.com Forums
Just did the trade in at ****s and for the E2, like you said for the price it's does a decent job. The audio on the videos is a nice addition as well
WildGame Innovations Cloak Pro 10 Lights Out $79.99. I have used this camera and other versions of it for a couple years. Good day and night pics or video. Good flash range. Very few ghost pics. Trigger speed is acceptable though there are faster cameras. Just shoot parallel pics vs perpendicular pics. Leave it out year round without weather issues, that's saying a lot in central VT. 2 sets of AA batteries a year on pics. 3 sets on video. I like them and will continue to buy them.
