Bagelman from United States, VA Public Profile

All applications require drilling and tapping at least one 8-40 hole, for Remingtons this requires drilling and tapping holes into a steel receiver, Mossbergs are aluminum but still have to drill and tap multiple holes straight and centered. Not at all drop in, that’s very misleading, even models with factory ghost ring sights require this.

I bought this for 7.5” piston build, using an Adams arms 7.5” piston kit and a faxon barrel, I needed to cut a fairly deep notch in the barrel nut, and also had to trim about 1/8” from the top rail in order to clear the rail height gas block of the piston kit. The modifications were easy enough (I have a lot of machine shop experience). Even with the modification the handguard installed very solid, not a lot of 7.5” length handguards these days and this one is very good for the price, nice and slim, and was easy to install.

The network features of this camera are but not great. Only thumbnails are sent to the home camera, and that’s also what is sent over the cell network. My biggest gripe is that the cameras aren’t very good, they miss shots, no way of knowing how many. I’ve had them out about 6 weeks now. I went from having dozens of hits a week on my old cameras (moultrie A20) in the same spots to having 2 hits in 6 weeks. I have checked the cameras twice in that time and both times found tracks that indicate that deer walked directly in front of a camera but didn’t set it off. The reports are also faulty. The number of pictures on the card will change retroactively day to day, sometimes going back two days, and the number will go up but no pictures will be sent. I’ve spent $700 on three cameras and three mounts for system that is basically worthless, because it misses shots.

The good: they were fairly easy to set up they connect to each other well even in my dense timber, and the home station connects well the cell network eve though my phone has weak service. No more intruding on my hunting area to check cameras every couple of weeks. They were easy to set up and aim with genius mount, and can be locked to the mount (sold separately but reasonably priced). The bad: the sensor range isn’t as good as my old moultrie A-20 cams (still going strong after 4 years outside in the south), the remote cameras only send a thumbnail of each image to the home camera, and the home camera only sends thumbnails to your email (you can also check these on the cuddeback website), for the full-size images you still have to pull cards, the thumbnails can be hard to read because the resolution isn’t very good but are okay, I wish I could put this on a regular cell plan with unlimited data and set it up to transmit full sized photos at whatever frequency I want, but I’m not given those options.