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Have enough data to give a good review....
We bought one for the farm, set it up in the middle of a small 1ac plot, but close enough to the salt lick to ensure pics were taken there. Tested it on single shot (whichever sensor triggered was the only pic taken) and 360 view (when one sensor goes off, it takes 6 pics in full 360 degrees). Both modes worked great. Image quality is great. Flash range is mediocre at night (this is the lower model one, was $115 with military/ LE discount). Zero sound to the camera revolving. There is a faint shutter click when it snaps pics. After a few weeks, sorgham got too tall for it to function in the middle of a plot, so we moved it to another property at the edge of row crop corn. Working great there as well.

Overall, very impressed with this particular camera, and looking forward to using it this fall on some select larger plots
 
megalomaniac said:
Have enough data to give a good review....
We bought one for the farm, set it up in the middle of a small 1ac plot, but close enough to the salt lick to ensure pics were taken there. Tested it on single shot (whichever sensor triggered was the only pic taken) and 360 view (when one sensor goes off, it takes 6 pics in full 360 degrees). Both modes worked great. Image quality is great. Flash range is mediocre at night (this is the lower model one, was $115 with military/ LE discount). Zero sound to the camera revolving. There is a faint shutter click when it snaps pics. After a few weeks, sorgham got too tall for it to function in the middle of a plot, so we moved it to another property at the edge of row crop corn. Working great there as well.

Overall, very impressed with this particular camera, and looking forward to using it this fall on some select larger plots
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Thanks so much mega!
 
Buddy just called me and said the 360 pros (longer flash range) are finally in stock. With his discount, they are $113 each. We are getting one for the farm.

And one more thing... we are switching to the large 12v solar recharged battery boxes... They come with 20ft cable, so if you mount a cam to a tree, you can still position the panel out where sunlight hits it. Total game changer with a cell cam. They are $47 each with his discount, and include the 12v rechargable battery.
 
megalomaniac said:
Buddy just called me and said the 360 pros (longer flash range) are finally in stock. With his discount, they are $113 each. We are getting one for the farm.

And one more thing... we are switching to the large 12v solar recharged battery boxes... They come with 20ft cable, so if you mount a cam to a tree, you can still position the panel out where sunlight hits it. Total game changer with a cell cam. They are $47 each with his discount, and include the 12v rechargable battery.
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Awesome! How are you getting the Revolver Pro for $113? It is supposed to have a 100' flash range.
 
Hillbilly Hunter said:
Can you post some pictures from your cam? I am curious to see the image quality.
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These are cell phone screen grabs from the pictures transmitted from the app.

1st Pic is cropped in 360 mode where it stitches all pics together in panorama. Had it been a standard camera, it would have missed the tom on the left.

Other pics are same image, just zoomed in on my cell phone and then screen grabbed.

Bottom line, resolution of images transmitted via cell are good enough that we haven't even pulled to card to download the high res images yet!
 

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Thanks for the review on the 360. I picked one up at Walmart the other day and almost bought it but put it back. I wasn't too sure of how the reviews were on these yet. Looks like I'll be trying one soon.
 
BSK said:
Having run just about every brand of camera over many years, I've learned deer notice anything that wasn't there yesterday. Their ability to pick out "something new" is truly amazing, even tiny cameras well hidden. When I move a camera to a new location, every deer that comes by for the next day or two locks up and stares at the camera, even in daylight, and even when the camera makes no noise at all. The deer simply see the camera and have to give it a good stare-down. Then, once is does nothing to them, they ignore it from then on. Until I move it again.
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I have a cam over a salt lick, where 2 5.5 yr old bucks use about once a week. One deer doesn't care, he will stand in front of the cam for hours, he done the same last year. The other deer will not stand at the lick. He stays out away from it and I'm not sure I'd ever have a pic of him if it wasn't for the other. Last year this same deer that I'd camera shy, had no issues with the camera.
 
Rockhound said:
I have a cam over a salt lick, where 2 5.5 yr old bucks use about once a week. One deer doesn't care, he will stand in front of the cam for hours, he done the same last year. The other deer will not stand at the lick. He stays out away from it and I'm not sure I'd ever have a pic of him if it wasn't for the other. Last year this same deer that I'd camera shy, had no issues with the camera.
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Interesting.
 
Update... we are now up to 4 running on large plots (one 360, 3 360 pros). (bought 3, then had a 1yr old cheap stealth cam crap out, and they replaced it for free with a new 360 pro, which was nice of them).

The extra amount of information gained from large plots is HUGE. For example, had a small buck yesterday evening feeding close enough to trigger the cam, but the 360 image showed another 11 deer scattered out in the plot feeding, some over 200y away.

Granted, the deer past about 50 yards doesn't have enough resolution on cell cam transmitted pics to determine much about the deer other than general body size, but it does give really good info on total plot usage.

Nighttime triggers only pick up deer within about 45 to 50 yards from the camera. The flash is good, just not THAT good.
Can't review battery life, all ours are hooked up to solar panels
 
I have had one out about 4-5 weeks. I am impressed with the camera over all. You definitely will need a bigger plan than the $5.00, 600 picture one. The lens cover will get dew on them and blur the picture. I made a cover to put on top of camera to eliminate this, made from corrugated plastic. It is made just like cardboard but is plastic. I do believe the flash effective range as the Pro model claims.
 
megalomaniac said:
Update... we are now up to 4 running on large plots (one 360, 3 360 pros). (bought 3, then had a 1yr old cheap stealth cam crap out, and they replaced it for free with a new 360 pro, which was nice of them).

The extra amount of information gained from large plots is HUGE. For example, had a small buck yesterday evening feeding close enough to trigger the cam, but the 360 image showed another 11 deer scattered out in the plot feeding, some over 200y away.

Granted, the deer past about 50 yards doesn't have enough resolution on cell cam transmitted pics to determine much about the deer other than general body size, but it does give really good info on total plot usage.

Nighttime triggers only pick up deer within about 45 to 50 yards from the camera. The flash is good, just not THAT good.
Can't review battery life, all ours are hooked up to solar panels
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Thank you for the review. Sounds like a camera worth trying. I've got one plot in particular it would be perfect for i think.
 
TheLBLman said:
I'm wondering if that sudden cam movement will spook game?
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So far, yes. I have watched deer come into my plots, and they see something new, the new camera on a t post. It is not silent, you can hear it spin. If I can hear it, I know deer hear it. I watched one nosey doe walk directly to the camera and stuck her nose up as she got within probably 5 ft of it, when the camera triggered she took off.

Up for not even a week yet, and deer seem to be avoiding getting close to it.
 
Boy yall just put me down a rabbit hole. I think we could make something better than this that you could mount on top of a t post in a food plot.

I'll be back...
 
I have had one out since September, sitting on top of a tee post that i cut a foot off of. I couldn't tell that they gave it any more attention than any other camera i have tried. I like it pretty good overall. The flash range is about like other cameras, except for the Guardepros and Madeise cameras. It has taken over 1500 pictures every month and i am still on the first set of batteries, but they are low, so i do need to change them.
 
We have 4 running past 3 months.

Biggest complaint is the lens should gets fogged up and stays fogged up for the first third of the day. We finally got around to doing the Frisbee trick on them a couple days ago to see how that works.

They are incredible to judge general usage and deer activity on larger plots. Ours cover areas from 2 acre to 4 acre plots. They aren't great for identifying specific deer in this setting, as one close deer will trigger the cam, and 20 more deer get caught in the crossfire, but may be over 100y away.

The 'on demand' feature is nice... snap a pic before entering the plot to know what is already out when you arrive.
 

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