I'm mad :mad: as he// my son's xmas present Failed agen (seems to fail every :knothead: :banghead:
What's the worst trail camera you have used?
That's an easy question - Widlgame ANYTHING! Poorest quality out there.
Cameras, feeders, etc. etc. etc. take your pick. Horrible company, and I'm from Louisiana
I had one that I set up facing to the east and when the sun came up and warmed the camera, flies would land on it and walk on it and set it off. I had lots of pictures of sunrises. Don't remember the make but it was $40.00 if that tells you anything.
x2 on WildGame.....
Well On the way to Bearquest I stopped at cabelas and bought a Moultrie. We set it up under my tree stand I had lots of activity from bears left it there a full day and over night. Pulled it the next afternoon and couldn't wait to see the pictures. There were 5! 2 of them were us setting up the camera one of absolutely nothing and another 2 of me getting into and out of the stand. We tried it all week with poor (no) results.
When I got home I tried it in my house for another week. We got a couple pics of our pets in a very high traffic area. Bottom line. I returned it and will Not buy another.
Well, you asked the question, and you already own the answer! I won't buy anything WGI!
From my personal experiences, Cuddyback is a close 2nd!
My Coverts have been the best ones I have ever had.
Bisch
QuoteOriginally posted by awbowman:
That's an easy question - Wildgame ANYTHING! Poorest quality out there.
Cameras, feeders, etc. etc. etc. take your pick. Horrible company, and I'm from Louisiana
wildgame innovations are garbage. Bought 2, got less than 60 days service
QuoteOriginally posted by Matty:
Well On the way to Bearquest I stopped at cabelas and bought a Moultrie. We set it up under my tree stand I had lots of activity from bears left it there a full day and over night. Pulled it the next afternoon and couldn't wait to see the pictures. There were 5! 2 of them were us setting up the camera one of absolutely nothing and another 2 of me getting into and out of the stand. We tried it all week with poor (no) results.
When I got home I tried it in my house for another week. We got a couple pics of our pets in a very high traffic area. Bottom line. I returned it and will Not buy another.
I have had several Moltries and have taken thousands of pics with them, only problem I had was one that would white out, I called Moultrie and they took it back and fixed it, shipped it back free. It is now 5 years old and going strong.
What about the stealth cameras?
I have used many different brands of cameras from cheap $50 cams to $500 cams, wildgame innovations have given me the most problems overall but almost every camera I have has given me some sort of problem and had to be sent back for repair. I really enjoy using the cameras and looking at the pics but anymore with the issues I have been having with my cameras I'm almost at the point of saying the heck with them.
Rodney
Wildgame anything just flat out suck. I really don't know how they can still be in business.
Don't know about the worst, haven't tried them all, but I really like my two Brownings.
Odd i have nothing but good luck with my wg 2nd season with it and works like a charm
Wildgame Innovations are the WORST camera I have ever used. The longest that I had one last was just under one month! I only use Stealth Cams now for 2 years with no complaints. One has been out for the entire 2 years and still going strong.
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Never owned a wildgame innovation but i have owned moultrie and primos. I have had no trouble with the moultrie and I've owned it for about five years the primos on the other hand never worked out of the box so i sent it back and they repaired it and that time it lasted about a month.
My best camera is a Reconyx followed by a Covert black OPs ,then stealth. I do own two wild games that are junk. They take a bunch of white out pics ( when they take pics ).They same guys that own wildgame innovations also own Barnett crossbows. Which are also know to be garbage in the xgun world.
Hmm, I've been using wildgame cameras for years! Maybe I should switch? I have noticed that they don't catch all the pictures well
I'm with the Wildgame Innovations gang. Pure garbage. I'm sure there are a few who have them without any problems but for the most part they suck. I've decided that when my remaining two bite the dust, which shouldn't be that far off, I'm done with cameras. Just not worth the money.
I found a deal on WI cams. Bought 10 of them for a little over $30/each and thought of them as disposable at that price. Only had problems with one of them. The rest are going strong after two years.
QuoteOriginally posted by Burly:
My best camera is a Reconyx
I too am a Reconyx fan. I have had one out pretty much continuously for four years (it is now six years on still going strong) when it had a readout display problem. I sent it in, they repaired it and updated the software for just the price of shipping one way. They are manufactured and serviced in Wisconsin. They will literally take thousands of pictures on one battery charge and never miss capturing a photo. They are kind of pricey but you do get what you pay for.
I like the IR feature too. It helps keep dirt bags from stealing a camera that uses a flash in low light.
I sure hated to read this thread. I recently bought a WG model i8b. So far, so good, but I haven't used it much. Maybe I'll get lucky.
I'll throw some more hate towards Wildgame. Terrible products, pushed by annoying, obnoxious owners.
I personally like the Moultries the best. Had good luck with them.
I have 2 wg blade 6. Both are in its 2nd season. One is dependable and the other not so much. Sometimes it takes pictures and sometimes it doesn't. The reason I know it doesn't is because I set out a big&j block out in one week it was half way gone. The camera is pointing straight at it with no pictures and it was on.
One thing with the WGI cameras. If you check your data card with any device other than your computer, the camera will not work until you reformat the card. Says all that somewhere in the directions on my cameras.
Stealth cams are good for about 6 months then everything falls apart including plastic housing and clasps. Dicks just had a trade in sale where they gave you $30 for your old cams if you purchased 12mpg Bushnell thank God I did not throw them out years ago when they fell apart and stopped working!
They also reduced the Bushnell Trophy cam by $30 so I think I made out great 2 Trophy Cams for $70 apiece . Incredible resolution hope they last or worst yet get stolen.
I have a primos now and won't speak to good or bad, not enough time.
Had a covert for ages and it was a great cam. It would miss pics or have blank pics but I don't know many cams that won't.
J
I'm a Covert fan. Work great and easy on batteries.
You can look at the pictures on any device. It's when you delete the pictures you need to use the trail camera to delete them and not the computer or digital camera. The trail camera automatically reformats the card to the trail camera.
QuoteOriginally posted by shed hunter:
What about the stealth cameras?
I've never owned Wildgame cameras because I've seen enough comments like the ones here to avoid them like the plague. That said, my experience with Stealth Cam's was about like the Wildgame comments here. The ones I had (six in all) were absolute battery hogs, if they worked at all, which usually wasn't for long. Never ever will have a Stealth Cam again.
Just took my last WGI camera out of the woods today. It didn't even take my picture as I approached it head-on to shut it off. It still works but probably won't even put it out again. My buddy has a brand new Browning and even though he hasn't used it a lot, I'm very impressed with the picture quality and shutter speed. Hopefully its dependability will be just as good. If so, I'll be getting one.
I have been using two for the last 3 yrs. Long battery life & lots of pics,- guess I just got lucky with these. :dunno: