[Driftless Hunter]

I bought two Gardepro non cell cameras a couple or three years ago and will never buy one of their products again. One crapped out after a year, and both had horrible battery life. Picture quality is mediocre at best. If their non cell cams are this bad on batteries, I bet a cell cam wouldn’t last more than a couple days sending pictures.

I‘ve run Spartans since the 2g days, and their quality isn’t at all what it used to be. They’ve also got left behind (in my opinion) by Tactacam with their rechargeable lithium battery pack and proprietary solar panel. I’ve still got 4 Spartans that I have rigged up external batteries for or have Herd360 solar panels on, but I much prefer Tactacams now (I have 6).

If you shop for deals, Tactacam 2.0 models can be had in the $65-75 price range, and I’m using Chinese copies of their lithium batteries from Amazon that cost half what the factory one do. I’ve had 4 of my Tactacams out for almost 2 years and never had to touch them.

My experience has been the complete opposite. I have 4 expensive Browning Dark Ops trail cameras that don't work. Several other brands that also stopped working after a couple seasons. I have had zero issues with my GardePro E5 cameras the past few seasons. I'm not knocking Tactacam, because I have no experience with them.

My E5 goes almost an entire year on 8 Duracell batteries, but I just do 8 MP pics. Night pics are way better than the Browning cameras that cost 3-4 times more.

I have zero experience with cellular cameras. I respect the reviews done by the Hunting Farmer.

 

[Driftless Hunter]

I have two - an E5 and an E6 non-cellular trail cams. Wife bought me the E5 a couple years ago for Christmas and I picked up the E6 on Amazon for under $25… Right now I only have the E5 deployed but will set the other out as time permits. For the $’s they are great IMO.

Those are some great bucks!