I've trashed Moultries, Wildgame and various others. My ancient Cudde still works well but is complicated to set the time, date etc. No memory when the batteries are changed. My 2 Cudde's that I've bought in the last couple of years take a lot of false pics and no pics. The IR one now takes pics at night but they are black. I put both of them on the same feeder and found that they disagreed. Eyes are reflected on the IR one but that's all. Customer service is poor; it's my problem so I won't buy another one even if they have fixed their problems.
I still have a Wildgame. On a night walk test I found that it caught me a 7 ft. Junk! Wildgame is good at replacing defective ones and I'm now up to # 4. I've given up on them.
Last year I bought a Primos 46 and got 3 pics in one week at a corn feeder. So I pulled it, tossed it into the basket of my 4 wheeler and headed to the house. It took pics of the sky at every bump and worked perfectly at the house.
Academy has a good return policy and, in the future, I'll buy from them and start testing right away. If they are OK, I'll keep them. If not they'll go back immediately.
My feeling is that you have about a 50/50 chance of getting a good one in any brand.
Like Travis, I wish I could afford a Reconyx.
Last edited by Dave Davidson1; 02/15/12 05:24 AM.
