Best Trail Camera Deals This Week: Cellular Cameras, Feeders & Bows Worth Buying

Academy Sports drops new hot deals every week, and most of them aren't worth your time. This week's batch actually is—specifically if you're still building out your scouting setup before archery season opens. We went through the full list and pulled the trail cameras, feeders, and archery gear worth a second look, plus a couple of things we'd pass on.

Deals below are live as of this posting and run through the dates listed with each product—Academy's sales rotate fast, so if something's sold out by the time you click through, that's why. Some links in this post are affiliate links, which means we may earn a small commission if you buy through them at no extra cost to you.

If you caught our spring roundup, Trail Cameras We'd Actually Hang for Deer Season, this is the same idea with a fresh batch of deals—and honestly, a stronger one.

Trail Cameras: The Real Draw This Week

This is where the volume is. Academy's cellular trail camera lineup is deep right now, with deals running anywhere from $59.99 to $189.99 depending on resolution, pack size, and whether solar's included. Here's how the field breaks down.

Best Value: Multi-Packs

If you're covering more than one trail this season, buying in multi-packs is the move—you're paying less per camera than a single unit costs on its own.

The Muddy Mitigator 3-pack is the standout here—three 36MP cellular cameras for $99.99 works out to roughly $33 a camera, which is hard to beat if you're setting up a new property or covering multiple food sources. The Stealthcam Fusion Max 2-pack is close behind, and 42MP is genuinely sharp for identifying antler points at range.

Best Single Cameras on a Budget

Not everyone needs a whole network. If you just need to fill a gap or add a camera on a new stand, these are the cleanest deals:

Editor's Pick: Moultrie Edge 2

If you want the one camera I'd actually tell you to buy off this list, it's the Moultrie Edge 2—single unit for $59.99, or the 2-pack for $99.99 if you're covering more ground. This is the camera I run, and the two features that sold me are the 0.40-second trigger speed paired with a 100-foot detection and flash range. That combo matters more than people think—a lot of budget cameras have a fast trigger but a short detection range, so you get a blank frame of a deer that already walked out of the zone before the shutter caught up. The Edge 2 catches the shot at range, not just up close at a feeder. Second is the built-in memory with unlimited cloud storage—no SD card to manage, nothing to physically pull and plug into a laptop. Every photo just shows up in the app.

The under-the-radar feature, though, is the onX Hunt integration. Your scouting photos land directly on your onX maps next to your existing pins, so instead of cross-referencing a separate camera app against your property map in your head, you're looking at exactly where that buck showed up relative to your stands, trails, and food sources. If you're already running onX—and most serious hunters are at this point—that's a genuinely useful workflow shortcut that doesn't show up in the marketing bullet points.

Premium Pick: Highest Resolution

If you want the sharpest image for the money, the Moultrie Edge 3 Pro (50MP) at $99.99 (down from $139.99) is the resolution leader in this whole lineup—same price as several 33-36MP options, but with meaningfully better detail for judging bucks from a distance.

Solar Options (Skip the Battery Runs)

Trekking back out to swap batteries is the worst part of running cameras. These integrate solar panels so you're not doing that:

• Moultrie Edge Single w/ Solar — $99.99 (was $149.99)
• Moultrie Mobile Edge 2 + Solar Panel Kit — $79.99 (was $119.99)
• Spypoint Flex S Dark, integrated solar — $129.99 (was $149.99)
• Already running non-solar cams? The Moultrie 3.4W Solar Power Pack II is $59.99 (was $69.99) and bolts onto most existing units.

Property Security, Not Scouting

Two items in this batch aren't scouting cameras at all—they're security cameras built for watching gates, feeders, or equipment against theft, with wider fields of view and different trigger logic than a game camera:

• Tactacam Defend — $95.99 (was $119.99)
• Tactacam Defend 360 — $159.99 (was $199.99), 360-degree coverage

Worth grabbing if theft off leased land or unattended feeders has been an issue, but don't buy these expecting deer photos—that's not what they're built for.

Feeders

Two feeders in this batch, both 250lb capacity, both at $149.99 (down from $199.99):

• Moultrie 250lb Feeder Pro Solar III
• Moultrie Mobile 250lb Connected Pro Feeder II

Same price, same capacity—the difference comes down to connectivity features between the two models, so check the spec sheet on each product page before you decide. If you're already running Moultrie cameras on the property, pairing the app-connected version keeps everything in one ecosystem. For planning what to actually put in front of the feeder this month, our August Food Plot Essentials guide covers what to plant right now for peak season.

Archery

Smaller category this week, but a real bow deal in here:

• Diamond Edge XT Compound Bow — $329.99 (was $399.99), available in right- and left-hand versions. The Edge XT has a wide draw weight and length adjustment range, which makes it a genuinely good pick for a growing kid or a household with more than one shooter on the same bow.
• Morrell Trophy Hunter MAX450 Target — $49.99 (was $79.99)
• Morrell Trophy Hunter MAX365 Target — $29.99 (was $39.99), smaller and more budget-friendly of the two

If you're building out a full kit around a new bow, our Complete Bow Hunting Gear Checklist walks through everything else you'll want before opening day, and our Best Crossbow for Deer Hunting roundup is worth a look if you're cross-shopping bows and crossbows.

Also in the Mix

A pair of youth hunting shorts rounds out the hunting-specific deals this week—the Magellan Outdoors Youth HuntGear Ripstop Shorts in Realtree APX are $14.99 (was $29.99), a solid 50% off if you've got a kid growing out of last year's gear before early season scouting trips.

Our Take

If you only buy one thing off this list, make it the Moultrie Edge 2—the trigger speed and detection range combo, plus the onX Hunt integration, make it the camera I'd point you to first regardless of budget. If you're covering more ground and want the lowest cost per camera, the Muddy Mitigator 3-pack is the better buy—three cellular cameras for under $100. And if resolution matters more to you than anything else, the Moultrie Edge 3 Pro is the sharpest single-camera option in this batch. The Diamond Edge XT is also worth grabbing now if you've been putting off a bow upgrade.

For more on trail camera placement and reading what they actually tell you about a property, check out the rest of our hunting coverage.

Prices, availability, and deal windows reflect Academy Sports + Outdoors listings at time of publishing and are subject to change. Always confirm current pricing on the product page before purchasing.