A few friends of mine have brought their Moultries to me cause they've learned that I'm all about the trail cams these days. They expect to tune them to perfection but there appears to be nothing to tune. The biggest problem is this double trigger required to shutter a picture. Do all Moultries do this or just the cheaper ones?

its actually a thing so you get less misfires.... the animal has to trigger the camera twice, so it knows that there is an animal there, and then it will take a picture. I think quite a few do this.... its a good idea IMO

I had a couple of them that did that. I took them back and now I am here. I guess it is cheaper to do it that way than putting a sensitivity adjustment on the pir. Tell your friends to take them back and build a homebrew.

Prior to this year it was on all their models...it was called "sureshot." Basically a supposed battery saving mode where the first motion wakes the camera up, and once ready, a second motion triggers the pic. This year it is only on the $99 D-40 model from what I understand.

Travis, I have to disagree on it being a good feature. We still have one remaining Moultrie in our camera arsenal, and I can't think if one good thing about the "sleep mode."

well. i agree it may not be good for trails and crossings, but for a feeder cam, its pretty good eh?

I'm not diggin the two trigger setup. I left this cam in a spot for a week that usually fills a 256MB card in a P32 in a few days. Ended up with two pictures of fawns. Actually on a feader believe it or not. I can see it from the house and there have been deer there everyday. They two friends of mine that have them now have a P32 and a S40. They seem happy.

If you were feeding out of a feeder with one feeder spout, then maybe it would be ok. You could point the cam at that one spot. I've used them over broadcast feeders and they get about a third of the pics that they "could." The deer just wandered around so much while feeding. I think half the time, they would trigger the cam to turn it on, and by the time they wandered back into the sensor area, it was in sleep mode again!

I really realized how inadequate the unit was when I hunted over a few times....the pics it coulda got but didn't. Then I hung a P32/sss sitting on top of it and the disparity in pics taken was staggering.

There's a much easier way to do that, I'll wait for them to contact me so I can tell them

Been a while since I've posted...but I haven't made any cameras lately .
My Wife bought me a Moultrie I-40 for my birthday....pretty cool camera, takes good pics but the PIR range is a little short (45 ft)or should I say shorter than my good ol home brews.
So is there any way to increase the PIR range on this cam?
Thanks Dude

Here's a quote from an email I received, Pretty bad way to run a camera. Made me think mine was broken. It might work good as a feeder cam but I know it sucks over trails no matter how you set it up. Now I make my own and couldn't be happier.

I think in the earlier days of Moultrie some guys were just replacing the Fresnel lens with one from the home brew market for a little better detection range. Seems like those guys believed the factory lens was poorly made and inconsistant. I haven't messed with the Moultrie latey but it does seem like the Fres rings didn't go all the way to the edges.

The Moultrie lens is a little different than the PIX's lens. Hummmm...I wonder if a PIX's lens would give this thing a little more distance?

Just out of curiousity, why do you need more than 45' of sensing? The I-40 IR pics at night @ >15yrds can't be all that good and I would think that would be stretching it for daytime shots as well.

45 feet for some places is far enough thats true, but there are food plot situations where I like to be able to trigger a pic as far as possible. The I40 at night will illuminate about 65 feet and the pictures are pretty good. In the day the pictures are great out to 90 -100 feet. They have come a long way....and don't get me wrong I still like all my homebrew cams.