Trail Cams

dev110

Looking to get a trial cam but have no idea of what ones are good/bad. What would you recommend?

ruger1894c

I have a bushnell one myself and find it very good and easy to use can get video or photos
Bring the sd card back to the laptop and there ya go foxes galore on screen..bought mine off ebay..

dbrock

i got two from aldi only recently, find it very very good and great quality, tried to upload a video bt it wouldn work, i can email it to you if you want to see the quality of them,

The Aussie

I got the GSM type from AliExpress, was having the photos sent to my phone until I broke it, now have them sent to a email address, only pain is you need Windows to change or set Phone or Email and I've only Apple products in the house.

dbrock

The Aussie wrote: »

I got the GSM type from AliExpress, was having the photos sent to my phone until I broke it, now have them sent to a email address, only pain is you need Windows to change or set Phone or Email and I've only Apple products in the house.

sounds excellent

The Aussie

dbrock wrote: »

sounds excellent

It's handy for checking what's about prior to a weekends shoot, also for figuring out their patterns all with out having to go for a drive and a walk just to see.




Also to check stock numbers and health of animals.





What it is not good for, is annoying you when your at home and get sent a picture of a another Animals rear.




Or when a mob of Sheep who are not even supposed to be with in 10 miles of the place spend an Afternoon in front of it and you have time lapse set on 10 seconds :pac:



When I get them back around to reset them I will leave them on email, and set up a specific account for them, the whole phone thing turned into a massive pain in the hole...

dbrock

That would drive me mad as I live five mins walk from most my stalking, :-)

Must have a look at these

One shot on kill

That's savage Aussie. Good pictures there aswell to be fair. What sort of money was it. I think I'm gonna have to set something like that up myself.

philbk

Some Trail Cams work on infa red light and dont need to flash to take a photo at night or in poor light. I hear these photos are crystal clear. This could be a good way to keep a check on suspected poaching on your ground! Any one with any experience of these?

Half-cocked

I've got LTL Acorns 5210a and 6210m plus an Aldi Maginon cam. The Aldi cam and the LTL Acorn 5210a are virtually identical except that the Acorn has black light IR illuminators which can't be seen by humans, the Aldi one's glow red in the dark. The 6210m has full HD video and audio, and has more batteries for longer standby time (but I've never left any of them out for more than a month so never had batteries go dead). I set all three up side by side and they all took roughly the same number of photo's, so movement sensors all seem to be the same sensitivity. If they stock them again I'd go for the Aldi cam, great value at €99.

One shot on kill

I wonder how we would find out when they are coming back out for sale.

dbrock

One shot on kill wrote: »

I wonder how we would find out when they are coming back out for sale.

call into a few and ask them if they have any left, i got two only last week by trying that,

The Aussie

One shot on kill wrote: »

That's savage Aussie. Good pictures there aswell to be fair. What sort of money was it. I think I'm gonna have to set something like that up myself.

It's a LTL Acorn 5210MM that I got off. http://www.aliexpress.com

There was a vendor selling 3 of them in a pack for god knows what, I've forgotten the price by now.

To be honest the only times I've used it to its full potential is getting a friend onto a Pricket a few weeks ago and the best one was a Big Fox at the start of the year that had been giving a farmer a good bit of grief, I got a picture through at about 8.05am when I was working in Blackpool in Cork City so called the farmer to tell him our friend was coming down for another Lamb, anyway long story short it turned into an ambush that Martin McGuiness would have been proud of :pac:

16 bore

Got a infa red type one myself this summer and have got some great pictures. Its good fun going out to check never know what your going to find on it.

ianoo

ive a SPYPOINT IR7

this is the best video i've got so far

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

ian...........

16 bore

ianoo wrote: »

ive a SPYPOINT IR7

this is the best video i've got so far

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

ian...........

Nice video.

daithi55

got these on the trail camera the other day forgot to reset the time and date after the batteries been out for a while

KE_MAN

I have the Aldi Maginon also and find it excellent vis-a-vis the competition. The technologgy used in them all is quite similar irreespective of brand. However as someone has already pointed out the video recording and download on my Aldi cam does not work either. But for €99 i wont comlplain.

Half-cocked wrote: »

I've got LTL Acorns 5210a and 6210m plus an Aldi Maginon cam. The Aldi cam and the LTL Acorn 5210a are virtually identical except that the Acorn has black light IR illuminators which can't be seen by humans, the Aldi one's glow red in the dark. The 6210m has full HD video and audio, and has more batteries for longer standby time (but I've never left any of them out for more than a month so never had batteries go dead). I set all three up side by side and they all took roughly the same number of photo's, so movement sensors all seem to be the same sensitivity. If they stock them again I'd go for the Aldi cam, great value at €99.

thelurcher

The Aussie wrote: »

It's a LTL Acorn 5210MM that I got off. http://www.aliexpress.com

There was a vendor selling 3 of them in a pack for god knows what, I've forgotten the price by now.

To be honest the only times I've used it to its full potential is getting a friend onto a Pricket a few weeks ago and the best one was a Big Fox at the start of the year that had been giving a farmer a good bit of grief, I got a picture through at about 8.05am when I was working in Blackpool in Cork City so called the farmer to tell him our friend was coming down for another Lamb, anyway long story short it turned into an ambush that Martin McGuiness would have been proud of :pac:

Did a bit of reading up on these and it seems that they send the pics via MMS - that's going to work out very expensive will it? 20c a pic?
Also you apparently need very good signal strength for it to send at all?

The Aussie

thelurcher wrote: »

Did a bit of reading up on these and it seems that they send the pics via MMS - that's going to work out very expensive will it? 20c a pic?

Vodafone is 25c per Text, I can loose that in work stuff so no bother.

thelurcher wrote: »

Also you apparently need very good signal strength for it to send at all?

No I check reception on my phone first, all I need is two bars on my phone and it gets sent easily.

dicky82

aldi in mulhuddart have trail cams at the minute.

have2flushtwice

thelurcher wrote: »

Did a bit of reading up on these and it seems that they send the pics via MMS - that's going to work out very expensive will it? 20c a pic?
Also you apparently need very good signal strength for it to send at all?

Hi thelurcher,
I went onto that site and couldnt see any detail about mms the message.
Was that detail on your ad?
Thanks

thelurcher

The Aussie wrote: »

Vodafone is 25c per Text, I can loose that in work stuff so no bother.
No I check reception on my phone first, all I need is two bars on my phone and it gets sent easily.

Good to know. Mainly looking at this as a mains/landline free backup to the security at home.
Have you got the following working with an Irish provider -
Acorn 6210 MM/MMX instructions for using SMTP

thelurcher

have2flushtwice wrote: »

Hi thelurcher,
I went onto that site and couldnt see any detail about mms the message.
Was that detail on your ad?
Thanks

Check the link above - lots of info on that site.