I feel your pain. I had a Cuddeback destroyed by 2 bears in June. I'll never forget the feeling I had as I approached the camera/feeder area. The PVC pipe feeder was dislodged from the tree and the camera face was ripped off. At first I thought that some trespassers had found my cam and got decided to vandalize everything. I then noticed that the PVC pipe, which was painted brown, had claw marks on it.

I was able to retrieve the compact flash card and get the images off of it. It seems that these 2 bears had been lolly gagging around my feeder for about 3 days and the flash probably made them mad. So that was a $300 waste, lesson learned. I won't be putting anymore trail cams up. I know there are deer on the land and I'm a meat hunter anyway. Just another whim, albeit an expensive one, to put under my belt.