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Digital Trail Camera Reviews

Welcome to our digital trail camera reviews. Hopefully I can help some of you with your digital trail camera buying decision.

The ads are tough to wade through. When I was looking for a digital trail camera it about drove me crazy. How can you compare the features when the ads are surely only going to tell you the good things. I couldn't find digital trail camera reviews anyplace on the web so I decided to try to buy what I thought was the best digital trail camera available for the money. So far I have not been disappointed but I have realized that you do not truly know which one is the best until you actually try them out. I couldn’t find any place where anyone had objectively looked at several cameras so I thought that I might as well take a shot at doing digital trail camera reviews myself. I have also began to try to find good digital trail cameras for you to take a look at. Many of the major manufactured trail cameras have been dissapointing so I'm now looking for some better options for you.

Reading the few digital trail camera reviews that I found were helpful, but if the reviewer only owned one game camera how do they really know if it is truly better than any of the others? I wanted to get information from someone that had used more than one.

To try to provide as much information as I can I'm going to try out as many digital trail cameras as I can to add to this review. I'll then grade them here, as well as write a complete page on them. You can go to those pages for more detailed information on each camera by following the links at the bottom of the page or by clicking on the trail camera name in the table.

There will be times that a page has not yet been written for an individual trail camera. I’m going to try to start getting information in this table as soon as I can and the complete page will follow.

The digital trail cameras have been graded relative to each other and of course the grades are subjective and are our opinion.

Since the grading is relative, the grades for each scouting camera can change. If I should get a camera that just blows all of the others out of the water, some of the grades would lower. Of course the opposite could happen as well.

You can click on the digital trail camera names to read the complete review of each one.

The last row in the table contains links to pages that describe how I arrived at each cameras picture quality grade. These pages should help you see the quality of the pictures taken by each camera.

You will probably notice that the trail cameras that have received the best grades are those that use real digital cameras and are housed in Pelican cases. Some of these cameras have developed a leakage problem in heavy rainfalls. To remedy this problem I have been experimenting with sealing the seam with duct tape, electrical tape and lately inner tubes wrapped around the case seam. The inner tube has worked the best and you can see pictures of these here.

Digital Trail Camera Reviews

These Digital Trail Cameras Are Still Available

READ REVIEWPicture QualityOverallBatteriesEase of OperationTrigger SpeedTree AttachmentPicture ViewingTime DelaysPricePicture Quality Explanation
Trail Watcher 4220AABAB-A+AA$545.00+S&HTrail Watcher 4220 Pictures
Swamp Ghost SG-N60A-AAAC+AAA$425.00+S&HSwamp Ghost Pictures
Treebark Cameras 4.1AAAABAAA$529.00+S&H*Treebark Pictures
Bigfoot SLEAAAAC+*A+AB$425.00+S&HBigfoot SLE Pictures
HCO ScoutGuard SG550CCABB+ACA+$209.95+S&HHCO ScoutGuard SG550 Pictures
Trail StalkerA-DAACAAA$399.00+S&HTrail Stalker Pictures
Cuddeback CaptureCCCB+B+BDB$199.99+S&HCapture Pictures
Timber EyeFDFBB+/B-DC-C$119.99+S&HTimber Eye Pictures
Trail Watcher 2035AAA+AB-A+AA$495.00+S&HTrail Watcher 2035 Pictures
Wildview Xtreme 5CCAB+C+BCB+$129.99+S&HXtreme 5 Pictures
Cuddeback ExpertB-CDDBDDC$399.99+S&HCuddeback Expert Pictures
Recon Outdoors Talon ExtremeCCBCCD+B$449.99+S&HTalon Extreme Pictures
Wildview Xtreme IICDCB+CBCC$99.99 +S&HWildview Xtreme II Pictures
REVIEWPicture QualityOverallBatteriesEase of OperationTrigger SpeedTree AttachmentPicture ViewingTime DelaysPricePicture Quality Explanation


These Digital Trail Cameras Are Not Available, But Others From The Same Manufacturer Are Available

READ REVIEWPicture QualityOverallBatteriesEase of OperationTrigger SpeedTree AttachmentPicture ViewingTime DelaysPicture Quality Explanation
Reconyx RC55CCABB+A+DAReconyx RC55 Pictures
Stealth Cam I390CCACDBCB+Stealth I390 Pictures
Predator EvolutionC-CBBB+AA-A-Predator Evolution Pictures
Moultrie Game Spy M60C-CBBC+CA-B+Moultrie M60 Pictures
Leaf River DC-6SSB-CCCBBB+Leaf River DC-6SS
Trail Watcher 2040AAAACA+AATrail Watcher 2040
Busnell Trail Scout 3.0 MPD+DDADDDCBushnell 3.0 Pictures
Trail Watcher 2060AAAAC-A+AATrail Watcher 2060
Moultrie GameSpy 200BCABFDDB+Moultrie 200 Pictures
Leaf River IR 3BUFCACCBCB+Leaf River IR Pictures
Cuddeback 3.0 MPB-CDCBDDCCuddeback 3.0 Pictures
Wildview 0.3 MPD-DCAC+BCCWildview Pictures
Stealth Cam WD3CDFB-D-BA-B+Stealth Cam Pictures
MoultrieD-DCBFDDCMoultrie Pictures
Bushnell TrailscoutD+FFAC+DDCBushnell Pictures
Leaf RiverCCACDCCCLeaf River Pictures
CuddebackDDCBDDBCuddeback Pictures
REVIEWPicture QualityOverallBatteriesEase of OperationTrigger SpeedTree AttachmentPicture ViewingTime DelaysPicture Quality Explanation


These Digital Trail Cameras Are No Longer Available

READ REVIEWPicture QualityOverallBatteriesEase of OperationTrigger SpeedTree AttachmentPicture ViewingTime DelaysPicture Quality Explanation
StalkerCamAAA+AC+AAAStalkerCam Pictures
Camtrakker Digital RangerAAA+B+C+AAA-Camtrakker Pictures
WhitetailCam P41 HomemadeABAB+CAAAWhitetailCam Pictures
Woodland SpyCamAAAB+CAAASpyCam Pictures
Penn's WoodsA-BAA-D+AAAPenn's Woods Pictures
EagleEyeAAABB-AAAEagleEye Pictures
REVIEWPicture QualityOverallBatteriesEase of OperationTrigger SpeedTree AttachmentPicture ViewingTime DelaysPicture Quality Explanation


Note: The prices may vary depending on the catalog or website that you look at for pricing.

* The Treebark Camera 4.1 is made and shipped from Canada so the price will vary depending on the U.S. versus Canadian dollar conversion.

Some of these digital trail camera manufacturers have other models available that would raise the grade and the price. More information is available on each trail camera page.

Sometimes it is hard to use words to describe what you think, so feel free to e-mail me if you have any questions.

We now use NiMH rechargeable batteries in most of our digital trail cameras. You can read more about them here.


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