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Can someone HELP ME. I want to get a trail camera but i don't know which are good. they need to be cheap under $100

For that pricepoint, I would suggest Wildview 2. I have had pretty good luck with that one. I also have several Wildgame Innovations IR-2's....been hit or miss with them. Got a Stealthcam IR 5 mp that take nice pics if the deer are standing still...seems the shutter speed is a bit slower at night. And I have a cpl of the older Moultrie flash cams that have been pretty dang productive. I will have to say that the Stealthcam has the best battery life and the most sensitive motion sensor of the ones I've got. I guess, the moral of this story is, at this pricepoint, it's a gamble.

I've had 2 Moultrie 4.0 flash cams as well as 2 Wildgame inovations IR's. For the money I'd go for the Wildgame IR's.

My flash Moultries take 6 D-cell batteries, and they eat them up pretty fast. The Wildgames take 4 C-cells, and run for a long time on them. You can find the Wildgames at Wally World for $60.00 to $70.00

I believe that you'll get better battery life out of any IR over a flash.

Neither of them have an impressive trigger speed, but for that price as far as I know you won't find anything that does.

I've had real good luck with the Primos truth cam 35. Good batt life,good picture quality. I have several more expensive cams that don't do anything better. You can pick on up for about $70 on sale.

I use 3 of the Wildgame Innovations IRs, and for the price they are pretty good cams. I also have a Moultrie IR, but the best results and the clearest pics come from my cuddyback capture that is a flash cam. I like color pics, which is why it's my favorite.

Like rt4 said, I would go with a Cuddeback Capture. They work pretty well and the ones with the flash I believe are $100. We also use a couple of Moultries, but they seem like they take more "wind" pictures than deer pictures.

I have to Moultrie 55-IR cameras. they work great, they use 6 c batteries and having them over a food source , the batteries have lasted over 7 month's at both spots before i had to replace batteries.

Posted By KGHUNTER on 15 Feb 2012 11:20 AM
I have to Moultrie 55-IR cameras. they work great, they use 6 c batteries and having them over a food source , the batteries have lasted over 7 month's at both spots before i had to replace batteries.

I also have a Moultrie IR-55. My batteries have lasted about 8 months now and I still have not changed them. It take pretty solid pictures for the price. I'm really happy with it.

if you can find the Cuddeback Capture's still, some are still out ther and for about a 100 bucks, they are night and day better than the rst of the 100 buck cams out ther and then some

but there not easy to find sine the new models cam out!

An older post but interesting.
I've concluded that cameras more than other hunting items demonstrate the truth of the addage "you get what you pay for". I've experienced a fair bit of frustration with the cheaper models of Wildgame, and my Moultrie sensor stopped working unless something moved with in 5 feet.
I may get a more expensive cam this year, depending on tax returns etc...
But I'll give the Cuddeback capture some of my attention.
THX

Remember that the Capture models were priced at around $179-$200, prior to the introduction of the new models. If you can find them the Captures are great buys at around $99.00 these days.

Well as I said in another post I have 3 stealth cams and they are on their second yr. If I remember they cost about 65 dollars each. For some reason I don't like leaving too much money laying around in the woods because people seem to borrow them and don't return them.

I have a moultrie IR-55, you can see some of my photos in the members photo albums forum under the new cam trail post posting. I have cropped them them down to get the most of the deer i could when uploading on here, but the picture quality is great, trigger speed is great, and my battery life is pretty good. I had it set up to take 3 pictures with a 5 second delay between pictures and a 15 sec reset delay. Between the begninng of August last year through the end of November I had got well over 10,000 pictures off that single camera. I had to check it once a week with a 4GB card because of the deer movement where I set it at. The only time I ever got the butt of the deer was on pictures 2 and 3 of my 3 picture sets, the first picture always had them centered. For the money ($79 on sale at Dicks Sporting Goods) I plan on getting another as soon as I have the money!

I have moultrie ir-55 . pictures are clear with animals moving or standing still . Battery life is great . I also have Wild game Innovation but had to send 2 IR 6s back before getting a good one.I will by more moultries,They cost about 125.00 to 140.00

For the budget conscious spender...wal-marts tasco for around 60 bucks...can't be beat for the price and reliability.