Before deer hunting season starts, using game trail cameras or scouting cameras is the best and easiest way to know if deer (especially trophy bucks) are in your chosen hunting area.
Digital scouting cameras are the most popular because such trail cameras take hundreds of pictures that can be viewed instantly.
With dozens of different trail/scouting cameras on the market, Cuddeback and Moultrie are favorites.
So, which digital trail camera is right for you? Moultrie or Cuddeback?
Moultrie Trail Cameras
Moultrie make selected trail camera models with infrared flash (ie, they don’t produce a visible flash, such as the Moultrie Game Spy I-40). Some hunters argue that scouting cameras that produce a visible flash spook deer.
Battery life with D cell batteries is excellent on some Moultrie game trail cameras (up to 150 days). This means you don’t have to change batteries frequently and that means less disturbance/human scent in that potential hunting area.
The Moultrie Game Spy I-40 Infrared unit is affordable (around $220) and takes sharp, detailed 4 megapixel digital pictures.
A unique feature of this Moultrie trail camera model is the ability to print the date, temperature, time and moon phase on the images.
Also, accurately aligning the camera to take pictures of your chosen area is fast and easy with the simple laser aim tool.
The standard Moultrie Game Spy 4 Megapixel trail (without IR flash) camera is only $99 – a price to fit any deer hunters budget this deer season.
Cuddeback Trail Cameras
Cuddeback scouting cameras are simple, rugged units that are very easy to operate and setup. The Cuddeback Capture 3 Megapixel model takes one minute to setup.
The Capture features a 40 foot flash range to produce 3 megapixel color images both day and night. An infrared model is also available.
Battery life is good too, with 4 D-cell batteries able to take 1000 images before needing replacement. It has a weatherproof housing, five delay settings that let you choose the time between exposures, from 30 seconds to 30 minutes.
The standard Cuddeback 3 megapixel scouting camera (flash) is $199 and the IR flash model is around $230.
Which Trail Scouting Camera is Best?
Both Moultrie and Cuddeback game trail cameras do what they were designed to do – take pictures of game both day and night. The scouting camera you select depends on what features you really need and that is the best one.
