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MHF US Northeast => Hunting New Hampshire => Topic started by: bassranger on Dec 28, 2011, 10:25:12 AM
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Hey guy's looking for some reviews. I for some reason have never owned a game camera, well I got some gift cards this year and am looking to purchase one. I'm looking at camera's in the 100 dollar range wondering if any of you guy's could point me in the right direction. I understand I can't get a top of the line cuddeback for this price but there must be some decent camera's out there that fit my budget.
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For that price point the Moultrie ir-55 or the primos truth cams will be great for ya. both under 100 at walmart at least Somersworth and Rochester anyway but worth more. I am not much of a camera guy but that is what I would do. I am a get in get out undetected kind of hunter.
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i have two stelthcam good but battery hog haven't tried ex-batterey yet :Bushnell trophy cam love it small 8AA batt's last all year little more money but well worth it
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My old Moultrie is going on 6 years and is still good...
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in the past i used stealth cam's, but they proved to be horrible with battery life and noisy. then i switched to moultrie I40's. i've had them for three years now. they are 4MP IR cams. they are great on battery life, but they are big and they make a noise when a pic is snapped. a lot of the pics i see from them have the deer staring at them!
i bought a moultrie M80 about a month ago. this TINY cam is great! it does not make a peep when it snaps a pic. the battery life, so far, has been great. had it out for about a month and when i checked it today there was 95% battery left. it also takes panoramic pics. sometimes the pics come out a bit blurry if the deer is moving somewhat fast, but i'll take that over a camera that will spook the deer.
i'll be selling my two I40's this winter and hopefully buying two more M80's.
you can find them for a bit over $100 online.
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=moultrie+m80&hl=en&prmd=imvns&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1680&bih=903&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=3956821414253800969&sa=X&ei=XVf7TryqGoOgtweO54zQBg&ved=0CHIQ8wIwBTgK (http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=moultrie+m80&hl=en&prmd=imvns&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1680&bih=903&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=3956821414253800969&sa=X&ei=XVf7TryqGoOgtweO54zQBg&ved=0CHIQ8wIwBTgK)
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Check this website out, great unbiased reviews on almost all cameras.
http://www.trailcampro.com/ (http://www.trailcampro.com/)
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in the past i used stealth cam's, but they proved to be horrible with battery life and noisy. then i switched to moultrie I40's. i've had them for three years now. they are 4MP IR cams. they are great on battery life, but they are big and they make a noise when a pic is snapped. a lot of the pics i see from them have the deer staring at them!
i bought a moultrie M80 about a month ago. this TINY cam is great! it does not make a peep when it snaps a pic. the battery life, so far, has been great. had it out for about a month and when i checked it today there was 95% battery left. it also takes panoramic pics. sometimes the pics come out a bit blurry if the deer is moving somewhat fast, but i'll take that over a camera that will spook the deer.
i'll be selling my two I40's this winter and hopefully buying two more M80's.
you can find them for a bit over $100 online.
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=moultrie+m80&hl=en&prmd=imvns&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1680&bih=903&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=3956821414253800969&sa=X&ei=XVf7TryqGoOgtweO54zQBg&ved=0CHIQ8wIwBTgK (http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=moultrie+m80&hl=en&prmd=imvns&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1680&bih=903&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=3956821414253800969&sa=X&ei=XVf7TryqGoOgtweO54zQBg&ved=0CHIQ8wIwBTgK)
Ive had My M80 for about the same time and really like it. My others are Moultrie IR55 there ok but the M80 blows them away.
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check on price amizon.com has for 117.80 don't sound bad price for the M-80
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great camera for that kind of Money
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I'm considering the M80 but I did read some reviews of guy's having trouble viewing there pictures on there digital camera's.
Any problems with that deerme?
The other one's I see that have good reviews are the Primos Truth 46 and the Wildgame IR4C anyone have either of these?
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I'm considering the M80 but I did read some reviews of guy's having trouble viewing there pictures on there digital camera's.
Any problems with that deerme?
no, i've never encountered any issues while reviewing the pics in the woods. for what it's worth, i have a 6 year old pentax 5 MP digital camera.
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I see they have a downloadable update for the M80 did you have to do that to yours or was that more for the older models. also I see the recovery time is slow which is no big deal just wondering how you set it up for a second picture as far as time. I read that with the update it has a 15-20 second recovery time does that mean you set it for say 30 second delay for the next picture. Hope you don't mind me firing all these questions at ya.
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I see they have a downloadable update for the M80 did you have to do that to yours or was that more for the older models. also I see the recovery time is slow which is no big deal just wondering how you set it up for a second picture as far as time. I read that with the update it has a 15-20 second recovery time does that mean you set it for say 30 second delay for the next picture. Hope you don't mind me firing all these questions at ya.
that's interesting about the update. i didn't update mine, but i will as soon as i get it out of the woods. i was planning on taking it out yesterday, but it's been taking pics of deer every day, and some bucks still have racks, so i decided to leave it.
i think i set it to 30 second delay between pics and one pic at a time? i'm not positive on that though. i believe there's also a hybrid mode where it will record video during the day and take pics at night. i haven't tried that yet either...
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Bassranger - I had a truthcam 46 and returned it to cabelas. It was absolute garbage and I will never buy a primos camera again. 70% the pictures were either black outs or white outs. The pictures it did take weren't great especially in low light bc the infared lights aren't strong enough. It just makes you really mad when you leave a camera out for a couple weeks, get excited to see 300 pictures, then most can't be viewed.
I've had Moultrie cams and would go that route. I'm buying an M80 or M100 within the next week or so. A lot of times people try to view pics on old digital cameras that don't accept the newer/bigger SD cards, hence the complaints. Same thing happened with me. My older Sony can't view them but my new Nikon has never had an issue.
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What model Sony camera do you have Halfrack?
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my stealth cam is great for pics and not terrible for batteries but make sure you do the download for the cam on the web otherwize OUCH batteries dead in two days...now I get a month or so.......even in the cold.........stealth cam is archers choice....I really like it but I dont know any better anyways
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Bassranger - I had a truthcam 46 and returned it to cabelas. It was absolute garbage and I will never buy a primos camera again. 70% the pictures were either black outs or white outs. The pictures it did take weren't great especially in low light bc the infared lights aren't strong enough. It just makes you really mad when you leave a camera out for a couple weeks, get excited to see 300 pictures, then most can't be viewed.
I've had Moultrie cams and would go that route. I'm buying an M80 or M100 within the next week or so. A lot of times people try to view pics on old digital cameras that don't accept the newer/bigger SD cards, hence the complaints. Same thing happened with me. My older Sony can't view them but my new Nikon has never had an issue.
Thanks halfrack. I also heard that the Truth 46 camera is very loud when it takes a picture and like deerme said I really don't want the deer to know the camera is there. so I will not be getting that one.
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my stealth cam is great for pics and not terrible for batteries but make sure you do the download for the cam on the web otherwize OUCH batteries dead in two days...now I get a month or so.......even in the cold.........stealth cam is archers choice....I really like it but I dont know any better anyways
hey never herd that could i get info on that my batteries dead in 2 weeks
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hey never herd that could i get info on that my batteries dead in 2 weeks
Not sure but I think this is what Loonyone is refering too.
http://www.stealthcam.net/sc_downloads.html (http://www.stealthcam.net/sc_downloads.html)
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going to down load on computer ? then plug in cam to computer? i hope: gets expensive way it is know
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going to down load on computer ? then plug in cam to computer? i hope: gets expensive way it is know
i called stealth cam : no soft where for mine 540IR it is what is
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Not sure but I think this is what Loonyone is refering too.
http://www.stealthcam.net/sc_downloads.html (http://www.stealthcam.net/sc_downloads.html)
yep thats what I said.......Doodrobs says it just fine........it works too but you have to have the right camera to be able to do it.......mine was cheap and runs fine for a little over a month on batteries......thanks doodrobs
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going to down load on computer ? then plug in cam to computer? i hope: gets expensive way it is know
yes mine did too...for 10 pics batteries dead.......now I can get 300 plus for at least a month...full color and black and white.......sure is much better
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hey never herd that could i get info on that my batteries dead in 2 weeks
that sucks....they do sell a battery pack for these and it is cheaper in the long run....70.00 buck retail on sale less than 50.00....thats what I am waiting for.....the sale
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I have Wildgame ir5 & my son has the ir7 we like them.
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Just purchased the Moultrie M-80 off amazon got it for $99. I thought that was a heck of a deal, if I had a extra hundred bucks at the moment I would of got two. Now I just have to wait for it to show up and I will flood this website with Pictures ;D ;D.
Thanks for the input guy's.
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Just purchased the Moultrie M-80 off amazon got it for $99. I thought that was a heck of a deal, if I had a extra hundred bucks at the moment I would of got two. Now I just have to wait for it to show up and I will flood this website with Pictures ;D ;D.
Thanks for the input guy's.
;) great job you made 18$ to boot in won day can't believe it were 117 yesterday your so lucky hope works fine let us know :) :)
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great find! my company gave me a $70 GC to amazon for xmas. i just bought another M80!!
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WoW Im getting another.
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WoW Im getting another.
for that price i ordered one also hope works like trophy cam kind of iffy about i will find out ::)
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i picked up an m80 at dicks this weekend. they had em marked down to $129. i had a $30 gift card and a $10 off coupon, got it for $89. i put it out yesterday overlooking the backyard food plot. lots of the oats are nipped off and some of the turnips have been chewed as well. the plot is getting some activity so we'll see what the camera picks up. tough to put it in a good spot though, there could be deer in the plot, but they could be on the other end. i got 2 cams over it now, the m80 and a bushnell trophy cam. one at each end. see what we get.
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I used an old wooden crutch to hang my trophy cam in my plot, worked real well. I moved the handle about 4-5" under the shoulder bar and put a long 1/4-20 bolt in the handle slot to use to push it into the ground. Took the rubber foot off the bottom and it went into the ground pretty well, of course it wasn't frozen yet though.
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I put one of the mini bungee cords around it to hold it from moving, just wrapped it around the cam and crutch.
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Received my camera in the mail today. Seemed easy to operate didn't take but 15 minutes to go from the package to the woods. I'll check it in a few day's.
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Received my camera in the mail today. Seemed easy to operate didn't take but 15 minutes to go from the package to the woods. I'll check it in a few day's.
can't wait to see pics & HOW BAT'S LAST
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Not a ton of action on my camera but I am very pleased with the picture quality. Here's a few to show you guy's how they come out.
(http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj170/bassranger420/trail%20cam%20pictures/PICT0020.jpg)
(http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj170/bassranger420/trail%20cam%20pictures/PICT0016.jpg)
(http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj170/bassranger420/trail%20cam%20pictures/PICT0006_1.jpg)
(http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj170/bassranger420/trail%20cam%20pictures/PICT0005_1.jpg)
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great they come out very nice ;)
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Nice pics. Kinda looks like the one coon in the first pic is missing an eye.
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Nice pics.
I like your style Mr. Roberts! The turtle man makes me laugh ;D and the cowgirl makes me.... :o
too funny. Yeeee yeeee yeee.... LIVVVVVVVE ACTIONNNN!
Camera Pics came out pretty good Josh! ;)
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Pictures came out nice and clear Bassranger...
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I like your style Mr. Roberts! The turtle man makes me laugh ;D and the cowgirl makes me.... :o
too funny. Yeeee yeeee yeee.... LIVVVVVVVE ACTIONNNN!
Thanks. Its a quality show. ;D ;D
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here's some night pics comparing the m80 and a bushnell trophy cam. both cams are over my backyard food plot, about 60 yards apart, and facing the same direction.
m80:
(http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d22/dt5150/PICT0016.jpg)
(http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d22/dt5150/PICT0015.jpg)
trophy cam:
(http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d22/dt5150/IM000023.jpg)
(http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d22/dt5150/IM000019.jpg)
as far as night pics go, i'd say the m80 wins hands down.
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Yep.... ;D
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backyard foodplot is right lol. Those m80's have some bright nighttime pics. Pretty impressive
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Those are the brightess IR pics I have seen from a commercial cam.
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backyard foodplot is right lol. Those m80's have some bright nighttime pics. Pretty impressive
it is.. literally. it's got oats, clover and turnips planted in it ;D
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yes they sure do look good