try smearin some peanut butter on it, they ought to eat that for sure, or spray the bear with some lead[:-]j/k welcome to the forums. we ain't got no bears so i'm not sure how to keep them from messin with a camera, you could use the search function here,i know this has come up a bunch, i think some people even believe the bears are attracted to the smell of film on the film type game cameras, good luck, that could get spensive[:-]