What cellular game cameras? Recommendations?

[levers4life]

Curious to see what cellular cameras you guys are using. I've been using SD card cameras for years but may want to step up my game a little. Midway has a pretty good deal on the Moultrie Edge 4 Pack. Was wondering how their service plan was, etc.
Does anyone have some recommendations? Experiences?

 

[nwmnbowhunter]

Tactacam has been the best for me last few years. Ran spy point for years. Garbage compared to tactacam.

Scheels had 2 pack of tactacam 3.0 for 225 or something like that.

We have about ten of them. Had one die on the last 3 years

Setup took less than 5 minutes and was very easy. On the app.

 

[cajun]

The tactacams have a good rep. We just bought a couple of the moultries. 2 for 80 bucs at wally world. So far they are working good. You can get 1000 pics for $10 month or unlimited for $16. This is monthly if you do the annual plan it's a little cheaper. We still have some regular moultrie cams that have been very reliable. Set up was super easy.

 

[Dean2]

Used 4 models of Spypoint, plus tried a couple of the cell units for regular cameras. Their big attraction is the free plan for the first 100 pictures a month, and only $5 for 250, $10/1000, $15 unlimited. They are fussy about signal., cams break easy, glitchy to operate, and customer service SUCKS. Have no Spypoints now.

Was going to try a couple of Tactacam Reveal X 3.0 this year, to run along side the Reconecos as the newest Tactacams don't need and SD card and are about 50 bucks a camera cheaper, $70 with not needing an SD card.

The Reconecos are great cameras, reliable, easy to setup, easy to get signal on, very fast picture transmission and SMS notification, usually within a minute or 2 of the picture being taken. Unlimited plan is $16 a month, cheaper by the year, can cancel any time. Easy on batteries but takes 12 AA. Very good customer support. Only drawback is the cameras are $225 a pop, plus the $20 for the SD card.

Have tried Bushnell, and Browning, sold them all or returned them.

All prices are Canadian dollars.

 

[cajun]

Camera is set too close. Pic quality is not bad. This is the lower resolution. The higher res will use up 5 photos of storage if you are doing the cheaper plan.

 

[levers4life]

Used 4 models of Spypoint, plus tried a couple of the cell units for regular cameras. Their big attraction is the free plan for the first 100 pictures a month, and only $5 for 250, $10/1000, $15 unlimited. They are fussy about signal., cams break easy, glitchy to operate, and customer service SUCKS. Have no Spypoints now.

Was going to try a couple of Tactacam Reveal X 3.0 this year, to run along side the Reconecos as the newest Tactacams don't need and SD card and are about 50 bucks a camera cheaper, $70 with not needing an SD card.

The Reconecos are great cameras, reliable, easy to setup, easy to get signal on, very fast picture transmission and SMS notification, usually within a minute or 2 of the picture being taken. Unlimited plan is $16 a month, cheaper by the year, can cancel any time. Easy on batteries but takes 12 AA. Very good customer support. Only drawback is the cameras are $225 a pop, plus the $20 for the SD card.

Have tried Bushnell, and Browning, sold them all or returned them.

All prices are Canadian dollars.

I've tried the Bushnell cameras as well. They didn't seem to last. I've never heard of the Recoecos. I'll check them out. Thanks for the advice!

 

[levers4life]

Camera is set too close. Pic quality is not bad. This is the lower resolution. The higher res will use up 5 photos of storage if you are doing the cheaper plan.

Is that pic from the Moultrie or the Tactacam?
I like the idea of cloud storage and not keeping up with and swapping SD cards all the time.

 

[Dean2]

I've tried the Bushnell cameras as well. They didn't seem to last. I've never heard of the Recoecos. I'll check them out. Thanks for the advice!

Cellular Trail Camera | Reconeco Outdoors | Canada

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Good part for you is 230 Canadian is only about 170 U.S.

 

[cajun]

Is that pic from the Moultrie or the Tactacam?
I like the idea of cloud storage and not keeping up with and swapping SD cards all the time.

Thats a moultrie.

 

[cajun]

Thats a moultrie.

Same here gets to be a pain with swapping cards. Just gets pricey when you have 8-10 cams out.

 

[bfarms]

I like the Tactacam personally. No issues out of mine.

 

[RB II]

I am recently using the Muddy Mitigator. About $70 each with batteries and SD card. $5/month plan for 600 pics, IIRC. They sycn up well with the cellular signal in our area, which is fairly low. So far so good for me.

My place is in the river bottom and the spring I lost several cameras due to flooding even though I had them high up on trees, just not high enough. The flood this spring was the highest we have seen while owning the place since the early 1990s. But a few cameras and feeder motors now and again are fair trade for the deer we see.

 

[Huntnful]

Tactacam for me. They're excellent, fairly priced and great customer service if you need it.

 

[levers4life]

I am recently using the Muddy Mitigator. About $70 each with batteries and SD card. $5/month plan for 600 pics, IIRC. They sycn up well with the cellular signal in our area, which is fairly low. So far so good for me.

My place is in the river bottom and the spring I lost several cameras due to flooding even though I had them high up on trees, just not high enough. The flood this spring was the highest we have seen while owning the place since the early 1990s. But a few cameras and feeder motors now and again are fair trade for the deer we see.

I'll check out the Muddy. Haven't looked into those. We get decent signal here so I don't think that will be a problem. I like hunting the river bottom too, unfortunately it's been a long time since we had a flood. Could use a good gully washer here.