Scouting Camera Recommendations

[CouesWhitetail]

Oh and one of the advantages to buying from me is that you get personal customer service. Need help programing the cam? Just call me and I can walk you through it. Want advice on what settings work well? Just ask.... and you get a money back guarantee and they come with a 1 year warranty.

 

"100% customer satisfaction guarantee - if for any reason you don't like your camera, you may return it for a full refund within 60 days of purchase (provided the camera and all accessories are returned in excellent condition). I want you to enjoy this camera for years and I want to make sure you are satisfied with your purchase. I realize this is an investment on your part, and I back that up with service you can rely on. I will supply help over the phone if you have any questions about the cameras after you receive one. The camera also comes with a 1 year warranty against defects in materials or workmanship. Damage caused by people or bears or anything else is not covered."

[MangeyJoe]

It's assuring that you stand behind this product... Thanks again

[MangeyJoe]

Amanda, do you carry the new "Verminator V Predator or prey" and "The TRuth 7 Calling All Coyotes" DVD's... I tried cabelas, bass pro, and sportsman's and no luck... I can order it from http://www.callingcoyotes.com/index.php?pa...=1&Itemid=1 but i prefer to see if you have it in your store... If you do i will order both, just let me know... thanks again

[CouesWhitetail]

No, but I do have a new predator hunting video made by some people here on this site. You would probably like that one!

 

Video page:

http://www.coueswhitetail.com/bookstore/hunting_videos.htm

[Coach]

Covert II all the way. You gotta get Amanda's "Bear Box" and I'll show you how to make it even more secure. Keep in mind, you'll never make it "theft proof" but I can show you how the only way to steal it is to cut down a big tree with a chainsaw, and take the whole thing, attached to a serious log, home to dissect.

 

I bought a Covert II from Amanda last year, and put in 8 Energizer e2 camera batteries. Kinda pricey batteries, but they have taken hundreds, maybe thousands of pictures and are still running strong. I left the camera for over a month in 24A and got tons of pix off of it, then just for fun, put it out on our "compost" pile in the back yard (we're on +/- 2 acres backing 10+ acres of undeveloped land) and we get pix of coyotes, fox, javalina, racoons, skunks and every feral cat and unsecured dog within miles.

 

What makes the Covert II better than any of my other trail cams is:

1) battery life

2) its ability to take night shots with no flash.

3) reliability. Anything that goes in front of the cam, get its picture taken, day or night, close or far.

4) customizable: with every Covert camera, comes a little ipod-looking device that you connect to the camera and set it up to take pictures or video, with all kinds of settings.

 

It also has amazing range, does just what it is supposed to do. I have a whole storage container filled with sub-par trail cameras I either bought cheap (moultree, wildview), or built myself with the "do-it-yourself" (pixcontoller) kits. None of them hold a candle to my Covert II, and I'll be slowly replacing all of my 6 or so cams with Coverts. They aren't cheap, and you don't want to place them just anywhere, because they will be stolen eventually, if you put them where they can be found.

 

I've come across many $200+ cameras literally strapped to a tree with nothing more than a nylon strap. IMO, it's these guys who get their cams stolen. When I encounter these cameras, I just plop my hat over them while I'm in the area.

 

If you want your camera to be "secure" the best bet is to have it in a steel box that is lag-bolted to the tree it's on, and try to keep it out of plain view. I also put a cable lock on mine, but if someone finds it and is dead-set on stealing it, there is nothing keeping them from cutting down the tree and taking the whole thing with them.

 

Good luck, and try and post your trail cam photos on here.

 

J

 

 

 

[CouesWhitetail]

Thanks for the review Coach!! Glad you are loving the camera.

 

FYI - I was talking to the owner of the Covert company yesterday and asked him how many pics you can take on 8 lithium batteries and he said the record they have so far is 18,000 photos. Yes, that's 18K photos! Wow! The package says the camera will take over 4k on 8 regular batteries. Those lithiums just seem to last forever though. I have yet to have a camera with lithiums even get low on battery life. They just keep going.

 

And these cameras will actually run on just 4 batteries. I just checked on a camera that I had out for 4.5 months which had taken over 850 pics and it only had 4 lithium batteries in it and the indicator said battery strength was still full! So they obviously can last a very long time on just 4 batteries.

 

 

And just an fyi - the new Covert HR doesn't require the wired remote that the Covert 2 uses. And it has a built-in viewer to see your pics and to program the cam. It has more LED lights, and takes 8 MP pics and uses up to a 8 GB card. So there are some nice perks to the latest model.

 

 

[Coach]

Amanda, when you use only 4 batteries, do you have them all placed together- ie. 4 at one side or the other, or can you stagger them with empty slots in between. Just curious.

[bonecollector]

Covert II all the way. You gotta get Amanda's "Bear Box" and I'll show you how to make it even more secure. Keep in mind, you'll never make it "theft proof" but I can show you how the only way to steal it is to cut down a big tree with a chainsaw, and take the whole thing, attached to a serious log, home to dissect.

 

I bought a Covert II from Amanda last year, and put in 8 Energizer e2 camera batteries. Kinda pricey batteries, but they have taken hundreds, maybe thousands of pictures and are still running strong. I left the camera for over a month in 24A and got tons of pix off of it, then just for fun, put it out on our "compost" pile in the back yard (we're on +/- 2 acres backing 10+ acres of undeveloped land) and we get pix of coyotes, fox, javalina, racoons, skunks and every feral cat and unsecured dog within miles.

 

What makes the Covert II better than any of my other trail cams is:

1) battery life

2) its ability to take night shots with no flash.

3) reliability. Anything that goes in front of the cam, get its picture taken, day or night, close or far.

4) customizable: with every Covert camera, comes a little ipod-looking device that you connect to the camera and set it up to take pictures or video, with all kinds of settings.

 

It also has amazing range, does just what it is supposed to do. I have a whole storage container filled with sub-par trail cameras I either bought cheap (moultree, wildview), or built myself with the "do-it-yourself" (pixcontoller) kits. None of them hold a candle to my Covert II, and I'll be slowly replacing all of my 6 or so cams with Coverts. They aren't cheap, and you don't want to place them just anywhere, because they will be stolen eventually, if you put them where they can be found.

 

I've come across many $200+ cameras literally strapped to a tree with nothing more than a nylon strap. IMO, it's these guys who get their cams stolen. When I encounter these cameras, I just plop my hat over them while I'm in the area.

 

If you want your camera to be "secure" the best bet is to have it in a steel box that is lag-bolted to the tree it's on, and try to keep it out of plain view. I also put a cable lock on mine, but if someone finds it and is dead-set on stealing it, there is nothing keeping them from cutting down the tree and taking the whole thing with them.

 

Good luck, and try and post your trail cam photos on here.

 

J

+1 on everything you said about these cams. I love them I just picked up another one from Amanda not to long ago. Now if the big bucks would walk in front of it I would be much happier!

[CouesWhitetail]

Amanda, when you use only 4 batteries, do you have them all placed together- ie. 4 at one side or the other, or can you stagger them with empty slots in between. Just curious.

 

 

When you use just four you put them together in the top slots. The camera normally uses four at a time, so when you put 8 in, it uses the first four until they are empty and then switches to the next four.