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Denali
I use trail cams every day, and I have formed some opinions on them based upon real field performance. First off, I'm not looking at deer over a pile of corn, we have camera traps running all throughout the blue hills, and Chequemagon national forest, the targeted species are wolves, and bear.
The Bushnell trophy cams "2012 model" have been extremely disappointing, in fact, we have just pulled them all from the field entirely, because they are virtually useless for capturing night time imaging. Some of the daylight stuff can be quite nice, however we have discovered that any motion results in significant distortion, and streaking, even in broad daylight!
The night time imaging is so consistently inferior, even cheap Moultrie cameras costing half their price, easily outperform them, if the images aren't streaked, they are so utterly lacking in contrast that the animals virtually merge with the landscape...There are good cameras available, however you must be prepared to dig deep for them, Reconyx leads the pack in performance, but you'll need $500.00 for one...IMO there are only just a small handfull of units worth the cost, and none under $200.00 for anything other than snapping images of static subjects, such as deer at a feeder. For deployment on a game trail, where predators are to found, you need a camera trap that can snap images in bursts, trigger in under a second, reset virtually instantly, and deliver solid, contrasty images, both day and night...
These four captures illustrate the problems with Bushnell's trophy cams very nicely...
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, so I was going to get him out, but carefully
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