Trail camera thieves

That really sucks!
 
Too bad it isnt the kind that emails pictures to you. I bet the camera got a picture of its thief.
 
I guess one good thing about my stealth cams, is at least they arent expensive. If someone took them i'd be really ****ed, but not out a lot of money.

Well, good news on the camera front..Got my camera back. Was kind of a shady deal but one of the local farmers sons had taken it. My guess is he came across it and viewed the pictures and pulled the camera.
   Now all of a sudden they dont want anyone hunting back in there. We have had a reciprocal hunting agreement with them for 40 yrs. Had to go get the camera from his mother because he had left for Ill. to take a new job. He was supposed to return the camera before he left.
  They knew it was mine because the first person i called was his father(the landowner) to see if I put my camera where it shouldn't be and if they had it. He said no but he would do everything in his power to get my camera back. Which wasn't a hell of alot because it hung on his garage wall for 2 weeks..
  Wish I could see the pictures that got erased. He took the camera apart and erased all the photos. 

Glad you got it back. 

I guess there are advantages to hunting big woods. 

KNOCK ON WOOD.

I dont trust 90% of the people in the woods.

Boy, aren't you trusting. 

I don't trust 99.9999% of 'em.

Those are the locks i like. I would have used that on my trail camera but it just wont fit through the lock hole. I had to get a tall padlock so I could put both the cable ends in the lock plus the lock through the camera. Bad thing is, you prob could just rip that camera right out if you tried hard enough.

What sad is that hunters dont have respect for the time and money other hunters put into their stuff.

Im a firm believer that if I come into a an area and find someone elses gear, they beat me to it, its theirs for the season. While there may be little space in some places of the state, around here theres an awful lot of open land to hunt. Why on earth would you steal some guys stuff. We need to team up together and make the penalties a little stiffer for stealing treestands and such.


Hey guys, next time you have a stand or something stolen try this. I saw this on a forum yesterday, sounds like a good idea.

Go back out where you stuff was, and right along the area where the stand was, and at the parking area put up a sign that says...

"Thank you to whoever stole my (treestand,camera). I am surprised that you didnt see the other trail camera in the area that took your picture while you were stealing my gear. I have turned that picture into the state police and they are on the lookout for you, next time, think about looking around a little more before you do something so stupid."

The guy that apparently did this said he had a blind stolen, didnt even own a trail camera, the blind was laying at the base of the sign within the next week.

I think another thing you can do is write your name and phone number inside with permanent marker. That way there is no doubt whose it is..

I've got two of the same cameras you are describing.Got them at china-mart for $100..Had bought one to use away from home so I could keep the expensive one near home.
 
 The first night I put it out I thought it was malfunctioning, There were 246 pictures on it after 36 hrs near my deer feeder. 8-10 raccoons and two little deer spent most of the night eating corn..It was set on 1 min. delay with 3 pictures..Must have flashed almost all night..
 
  But when my expensive camera got taken I bought a second one. Then 2 weeks later I get it back. Now I'm running three cameras in the woods. Get to see pictures of different buck almost every day..Only problem that I've had with these cameras is there slow shutter time. Terrible pictures of moving animals..Are quite blurry..

Buy a cheap trail cam and leave it in plain sight.
Hide your other cam pointed at the cheap one.
Revenge or police depending on your morals