Well, today I hunted for "my buck". As some of you might remember, I recently got pics of a rather large buck visiting a couple of apple trees. Well, this afternoon I finally got after him, but he didnt show up. I was going to take a nice doe, but she was a little spooky on account of the raindrops making alot of noise on my blind. As I was leaving my blind, I saw a little 6 point come down the pasture, grunting up a storm. He was downwind, and I knew what was about to happen. He hit my scent, and stopped and bolted within a few seconds. He never saw me, just smelled me, and was gone. I decided, since most anything in the area was startled, I would retrieve my trail camera and bring it home for the night.
Low and behold, it was not on the apple tree where it should be!!!!!!!!!!! This is the second trail camera I have had stolen this year. This one was about 400 yards away from the location where the other one was stolen, and again I am the only one who has permission to hunt this property. It just really sucks, cause both were Wildview 3.0's with the battery pack and a memory card. I now have only 1 left, and it is not performing as it should be.
At this point, I am totally giving up on trail cameras. I bought three this year, two are gone, and I have no idea who might have took them[:@]!!!
Only other alternative is to pony up and buy a camera with a locking system.