cellular trail cams?

[oteps]

Anyone have one? What kind? like it or hate it?

[Blue_Runner]

Oteps,

I have regular trail cams. I kinda like the anticipation of checking a few weeks or months worth of pics all at once. Also I'm not a big fan of text messages and constant dings of squirrel pics might drive me crazy. My 8 double A batteries last close to a whole year if not more. I doubt batteries would last that long in a cellular trail cam. Not to mention - batteries are EXPENSIVE these days.

Looking forward to see if anyone else chimes in.

[oteps]

I have 2 wild game innovations regular cams, one just died. Cant get it to turn on, just red light blinks. Once the screen came on then fadded out.
But the cell cam would be for home security on the other side of my yard. I have some crappy neighbors up the road that are trying to buy the house next door.

[Blue_Runner]

Gotcha, seems like the cellular cam would be great for that purpose although I have no experience with them myself.

I did some googling about battery life on cellular trail cams. In general it seems alkaline batteries do not last very long, while lithium batteries last a little bit longer. I saw where some were getting around the issue using an external 6v lithium battery OR using recharcheable batteries with a small solar panel.

[Pipe_Dream]

Not thrilled with the Tactacam we purchased last year. It eats batteries and recently stopped working. They do want us to ship it back to them so that they can have a look at it.

[oteps]

Bought a 2 pack of muddy mitigator cams. Not hard to set up for a guy that hates technology. Takes hood pics but is an later that I get the pic. Might call them and ask why. I figured a couple min. So far got pics of leaves blowing, deer and my dad stopped to feed my chickens while we were away. He knew I put up cams so he was walking around looking for them.

[oteps]

Had the time zone set wrong at 1st so when pics came in there were an hour off. Now its working good. Less than 4 min and pic is on my phone.

[oteps]

So far still haven't changed the cheap dollar store batteries. But its not cold yet.

[Blue_Runner]

That is still encouraging tho. One of my cams just started acting up. What it is doing is basically taking 4 pics per second until the batteries die. Last time I took it down since it isn't working but it had around 11k pics on it LOL. My other one still works fine.

[oteps]

I'm finding the old style ones with a chip for $30 now. Just picked up another muddy cam.