Trail cam advice?

[Dave2old]

[T Nichols]

homebrew !!!!!!!

[George D. Stout]

Dave....you're scaring me!    

[Dave2old]

[George D. Stout]

I'll keep the fire going Dave 8^).

[KentuckyTJ]

Dave, I've had them all and I've settled on these little dudes. Great battery life. Very fast trigger speed and infrared operation. Easy to download photos. Easy to hide so no one can see them and take great picts. They will even take short videos.

Don't kid yourself. You will end up putting it on a trail.

 http://www.covertscoutingcamera.com/

[Missing Impossible]

X2 for homebrews!

[Dave2old]

[KentuckyTJ]

Dave a homebrew camera is one you gather the pieces for and make it yourself. Without a doubt they take the best quality photos because they have a high mega pixel digital camera inside but for what you want to do you're better off with the Covert II.

[KentuckyTJ]

Dave here are a few photos off the little Covert.

 

 

 

 

[Lechwe]

Dave,

I have built all of mine but have to agree with Kentucky on this one. For the cost of the Cover II I can't build one for that. I would get that one for sure. Great pictures, small, long battery life. Perfect setup.

[Lwood]

Last summer I bought the Moultrie Game Spy I60 for the very same reason. Infra red, shoots video and stills... been very pleased. So far it's captured all of our mountain neighbors including a lion.

[Tater John]

Just for setting up, to catch what critters wander around my place and not spend alot of money, I bought a Moultrie D40 from basspro for $99 and a 2 GB card from office depot for another $15 bucks.

The trigger time is pretty slow and as you can see, the time stamp is in the picture. Hate that!

Its not by any stretch a pro game camera but it gave me an affordable way to capture the rascal that raked one of my pine trees to death.

 

Rusty

[Andy Diggs]

Anybody got any links to info on building your own? I could put my son to work on this  

[Lone archer]

Dave,
Go to this sight and check out all the research on different cams.  http://www.chasingame.com/

Rob

[Bjorn]

And for those not wanting anything complicated the Cudde-Back Capture is the real deal. I am no camera guy and hate instructions. I got 2 of these working great and never opened the manual!

[Dave2old]

[Missing Impossible]

You'll have less than a covert with many homebrews including the D380 camera or even the Sony P32.  Buy the camera from E--y then buy a kit that has everything you'll need including a  pre-drilled pelican case.  One HUGE benefit of a homebrew is that if something breaks, you just replace that component.  This is not possible with propriatary components of store bought cams.  Also, no cam comercially available is quicker on the trigger than a homebrew with an Olympus D380.  This cam goes for 20 bucks on E--y.

[J-dog]

Got a scoutguard, just got it out - never used one before so will let ya know (if I get anything!)

Neat little cam though, bout as big as a coke can - I could set it up so it has to be easy.

J

[Don Stokes]

The Covert looks like a ripoff of the Scoutguard SG550. I've had several different kinds, and the Scoutguard is by far the best I've tried. In my back yard I've "shot" foxes, coons, squirrels, deer, a woodchuck, neighbor's dogs, and a bobcat. I didn't know I had a bobcat!

Batteries last about a month, which is very good, and there's no lights on the camera to alert game. With other models, I kept getting shots of deer looking at the little red light. It's all infrared, so no flash to spook anything, including trespassers who will steal the camera if they know they've been photographed. Excellent movies, too.

The Chasingame site mentioned by Lone archer is excellent for comparing kinds. They like the Scoutguard, too.