Stealth Cam New 360 Cellular Trail Camera

[ricky racer]

From their advertisement: "The new Stealth Cam Revolver is game-changing. The benefits of a 360 camera are eye-popping, especially for whitetail hunters looking for the best cell cam solution to cover serious ground and increase their odds of photo capture."

 

[Nutterbuster]

We're supposed to be getting samples of this through work. Can't say that I see much use in it, but my boss is excited to put one out on his plots inside an exclusion cage to see what that's like

 

[woodsdog2]

Oh man to see how a buck is coming and going all at once with one camera……. that’s cool!!

 

[neonomad]

There was a fence post near some oaks last year where it was driving me crazy which way to point the cam, I was 50/50 which path the deer were taking more often. I’ll admit this thing would’ve brought instant peace of mind, other than the fact the sun would have been blasting it from the south, wonder if you can turn off zones.

 

[Camelcluch]

I really like the idea but knowing it’s a GSM product I am very skeptical. All I can think of is the infuriating phone calls to customer service after a month and it breaks.

 

[Hlzr]

There's a few instance where this would be worthwhile, be interesting to see how quickly the rest of the producers react. If the reviews are positive I may pick one or 2 up.

 

[woodsdog2]

I really like the idea but knowing it’s a GSM product I am very skeptical. All I can think of is the infuriating phone calls to customer service after a month and it breaks.

What’s a GSM product? Under a conglomerate or something? Kinda like Feradyne etc? Where everything once quality as an individual company that gets bought out goes to heck??

 

[Camelcluch]

Yes GSM is the parent company that owns Stealth, Muddy, Hawk and others.

 

[DelaWhere_Arrow]

I’m not posing this as an ethical question, more one in the vein of the SH Support Thread:

I know I WANT this, but do I and the rest of my family NEED this for me? See, I’m already the kinda guy to whip out a picture of a forkie I just got sent by my spypoint, drool at the dinner table over it, show it to Aunt Sandy who doesn’t look like she could possibly care less, drive my wife insane with questions about which tree that I triangulated around the same two travel routes I should sit in…
And somehow I’m still married with an increasing number of mouths to feed.
Which by the way, dear Mrs. DelaWhere, means I need to be in one of those trees for sure because venison doesn’t kill, butcher, and grill itself if jah feel me.
So what I’m saying is, I can’t see this type of camera compounding my obsessions at all.

 

[Arrowsquirrel]

That thing would be a head scratcher for a camera or card thief.

 

[Camelcluch]

I’m not posing this as an ethical question, more one in the vein of the SH Support Thread:

I know I WANT this, but do I and the rest of my family NEED this for me? See, I’m already the kinda guy to whip out a picture of a forkie I just got sent by my spypoint, drool at the dinner table over it, show it to Aunt Sandy who doesn’t look like she could possibly care less, drive my wife insane with questions about which tree that I triangulated around the same two travel routes I should sit in…
And somehow I’m still married with an increasing number of mouths to feed.
Which by the way, dear Mrs. DelaWhere, means I need to be in one of those trees for sure because venison doesn’t kill, butcher, and grill itself if jah feel me.
So what I’m saying is, I can’t see this type of camera compounding my obsessions at all.

I’ll help you out. You need it! Yes you do! BUT (<it’s big) you want to wait to see how reliable this will be. It would suck to spend the money and have to ask Stealth Cam for any kind of help.

 

[DelaWhere_Arrow]

I’ll help you out. You need it! Yes you do! BUT (<it’s big) you want to wait to see how reliable this will be. It would suck to spend the money and have to ask Stealth Cam for any kind of help.

Yeah that’s a sobering reality to these damn-cool cell cams. 2/4 of my “active” cell cams are paperweights for seemingly no reason, after working pretty flawlessly for over a year each, and one or both of those replaced other dud cameras. I just got another for Xmas, haven’t even set it up yet cuz I’m anxious about the issues I may have. Lots of hours already spent with customer service calls just to get pictures when I can’t go sit in a tree .
You’re right, I gotta hold out until I can see how they perform. Three or four of these could potentially give me almost complete visual access to the best parts of our property for deer AND people surveillance.

 

[MattMan81]

Bump for an update from anyone who purchased one.