Bear ate my deer cam
10-03-2002, 07:19 AM
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: valley bend wv USA
Posts: 188
Bear ate my deer cam
I went to change the film in my deer cam yesterday and found it torn off the tree with tooth marks in the plastic cover and the batteries is there anything you can do to keep the bears from tearing it up?
10-03-2002, 07:55 AM
#2
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Southern MD USA
Posts: 436
RE: Bear ate my deer cam
I don't have bears where I live, but I drilled holes in both sides of mine and attached a 1 1/2inch chain to mine that is bolted though the plastic... Your local hardware store should have everything you need to do this... but I would venture to say that a bear could still rip it off the tree if he so desired...
10-03-2002, 11:21 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Pittsburgh PA
Posts: 947
RE: Bear ate my deer cam
Same thing happened to my camera a couple of months ago. He pulled it from the tree, bit into the lense cover, broke a couple prongs of the back, and pulled the cable out through the hole. All the pics were blurry, but I could make out a paw and an ear. 2 weeks later I got a nice broadside picture of him.
10-04-2002, 11:27 PM
#10
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Somewhere ND USA
Posts: 92
RE: Bear ate my deer cam
sounds like you have problems. try putting it ina tree to small for a bear to climb but large enough for the camera also put it high enough so the bear can't reach it. You scared him so he was unleashing some rage. I read that in Bow hunting world in the October issue.
Why work when you can hunt???? Heck why work at all!!
Why work when you can hunt???? Heck why work at all!!