SpinnerMan wrote:I like my Moultrie cell game cam, but in my experience they use a lot of batteries.
I want mine sending it immediately and I think I have it at max battery use settings. I think there are a settings to adjust that can reduce battery use.
The reason I want it immediately. Where I shot that buck, this time of year I get random buck passing through and they often leave the same way the came. If I am working from home, I can be in my blind in less than 30 minutes. From work, less than an hour. If anything goes in that gets me excited, sometimes I can drop everything and leave. Hasn't worked out that way yet, but I've on many occasions had them come in, especially early afternoon around 2PM or so and then come back out 2 hours or so later.
On a funny note on that, last year a nice buck came in and I couldn't drop everything. Texted a couple buddies that hunt the area to give them a heads up. A couple minutes later, I get a text back, he's now in front of his cell game cam on the other side of the area. About 10 minutes after that, he passes by mine heading out of the property. So I text them back "never mind, he's gone." That dude was in a hurry and covering some territory to find the ladies.
This is fast from my wifi equipped living room but put it where there's barely one bar of signal force and see.
It slows way down once the wifi is gone.
Mallard lake will give it a real world test.
It'd maybe work at 7mile. Maybe.
The thing that matters is the time stamp and date thing.
That way I at least know when someone dropped by or whatever.
I know pretty much all the local die-hards and we visit.
Setting up hunting with a guy I met years ago.
Our mutual friend got divorced, sold all his stuff, and don't hunt ducks anymore. It's hard to imagine but they come n go like that.
If you have a stable relationship and "she" let's you hunt that's a keeper and make sure she knows how you feel.
I've been doing it since before we got married.