UNSPORTSMAN LIKE CONDUCT!!!!

[Buckhunter]

Well some butt$%&$* stole my good Moultrie cam within the last few days. on a good spot with lots of activity. I had a feeling it was going to be gone when I walked up to the tree. I was planning on leaving it up 1 more week. BUt some jerk beat me to it. So if you hear someone talking about a cam in 23 getting ripped its mine. But in reality I'll never hear about it or see it again. The jerk will put it up some other place. My brother told me a "Karma is a bad thing to mess with." He'll get his someday.

 

 

 

Oh well just 175 bucks gone in the wind. "Thanks jerk!"

[jeepers creepers]

Sorry to hear about your camera. I hate that kind of stuff.

 

If I see someones camera when I'm out scouting(which I have), I leave it alone and normally go scout somewhere else.

[bearbait]

I guess the only way to be sure is to get or make a lockbox for it and chain it to a tree with a masterlock...but even then there is no gaurentee. If someone wants it bad enough their gonna get it, either but cutting down the tree of cutting the chain.

 

Sorry that this crap happened to you. Hopefully that guy will get whats coming to him!

[TwoGuns]

I feel your pain, man. that is the crappiest feeling in the world.

 

darren

[TLH]

Talking about Karma--my buddy R.L. put a camera up on a wind mill that he has been using for years--the windmill is owned by a rancher by the name of Miller--any way, he had one of his camera's taken about two weeks ago and he was bummed out for sure. Well, the Yavapai Sheriff department did a little park and swap hunting in Congress and guess what? R.L.'s camera was there on the table still in it's protective box and the kicker was that R.L. had his name and part of his SS number carved into the camera. The Sheriff department confiscated the camera and gave it back to R.L. and the dude that had it will be visiting one of the court houses real soon--they got him for possession of stolen property.

 

Now i know what you all are thinking--if a camera is taken from National Forest or BLM or State Trust there isn't anything can do--and you might be right, but that doesn't mean that some day in good old Pumpkin Center you won't find your camera on a table and then you can make sure the person who is trying to sell it knows that you know it was stolen and if you put your I.D. in the camera you may be able to get the law to help you out.

 

Too bad about your camera bud--that really sucks but i think a lot of these people stealing camera are just people looking for something to sale????

[tjhunt2]

TLH.....that's a great idea. I just put up two new ones yesterday and don't even have a lock on them. I bought cheap locks and they weren't big enough. Ingraving your name somewhere is an excellent idea. Thanks. Here's a pic from yesterday's cam.

I have several pics of this little guy. Notice his right antler is growing out next to his eye.

[TLH]

Nice picture! After the archery season is over i will stick mine out there--i have a rifle tag and i want to see if the bulls are going where they always have after the rut but if i put them up now there is a great chance that they will get snagged by someone. I do have one out there though and i have been getting some good pictures--i will post them when i get home.

[TAM]

Everyone should know that locks and chains only keep honest people honest!!!! If the jerk wants it bad enough a set of $10 bolt cutters will go right through a big chain, lock, or cable. Even a cheap hack saw will do the trick most of the time.

 

Don't let a big chain or cable give you a false sense of security! The only way your camera is safe is if no one finds it.

 

I've lost several now. Even far off the trails with locks and cables.

[TLH]

TAM, i really believe that there are people who watch for people to go into the woods and some how and some way they know where you go and where the cameras will be. If the salt is on the ground or any other kind of mineral they will find that first and then they have your camera.

 

A buddy of mine will take his ladder with him and he will hang his camera way up in a tree and point it down to get the pictures--he has been hanging cameras for a long time and has never lost one (knock on wood) by the way, he will hang cameras in places where there is a lot of foot traffic and he still has never lost a camera.

 

Most people who find your salt won't try to climb a tree to get a camera.

[Snapshot]

I am buying my first trail cam, and theft has always been a big concern, even though the places I will put it are secluded, you just never know if someone will stumble across your cam at some point. Maybe they will come out with units tha have lojack or GPS tracking devices, even though that would get pricey.

 

[KGAINES]

A little flashing light that says tracking beacon armed, or something to that effect might deter some, but thieves are thieves. Maybe put a little note that says something like one of four cameras in the area to stop criminal activity, property of such and such county sheriffs dept. or AZGFD, but then again thieves will be thieves that is why when they catch a thief a good ole fashioned whoopin might make them think twice before doing it again, especially if it happens a few miles from a road.

If you had the money it would be freaking awesome to have one with a lojack type device and catch someone in the act or show up at their house with the police, but catching them and providing some behavioral adjustments would still be the best option.

 

[Gr8 White Jr]

Sorry to here that! I had one stolen last year in 37A. Didn't even have it up for a week and it was gone. I lock mine up now no matter what but as TAM said locks and chains only keep the honest people honest. Truth of the matter is if someone wants your camera bad enough they are going to get it.

 

-Tracy

[Huntn coues]

Bastages

 

CnS and I pulled a stand today that has been out for quite some time. I was positive my steps and bow hanger would

be gone but they were still there!

 

Still some good guy's out there But some real bungholes as well.

[More D]

Please guys don't put your SS#'s on the cameras. That would almost be like putting your CC# on the thing the thieves are/want to steal.

Make up a random 5 dig code that only you could identify if you were lucky enough to find a previously stolen camera.

 

 

 

 

 

[AZantlerhead]

When I see a cam I smile and wave, wish the same in return . Matter of fact just found one two weeks ago in 3B , I still smiled and waved to the cam even though their was dang quad tracks staraight up the hill 200 yds right to it. So whoevers got a pic of me on their cam, If I see fresh tracks off the roads to your cam again I'll just tell the G&F bout it. I'm sure they'd love to wait at you're cam and school you on atv ethics!!! Maybe wait for you there my self.

 

The smile and wave to this cam was not a hello , but more of a warning. There are others in the woods ya-know.