RE: Food Plots Or Trail Cameras Public Forest
The thing to remember about theives is that they WILL take your camera. I have had success with the cudde back camera because of the bear box that is made for it. It is effective in stopping honest people who turn buit wont stop anyone intent on getting it. Here is what I do and you would be suprised how many pictures of hunters I have reading my box. Cuddebacks are pretty expensive but I went with them specificaly for the bear box. It seems a hell of a lot tougher than all the other production camera boxes out there.
1: Get the metal locking bear box.
2: Encode the camera
3: On the front of my bear box I have written "ENCODED CAMERA THIS WILL NOT WORK FOR YOU"
4: I put my bear box 8 feet up a tree
5: I have 6 lag bolts 4 inches long bolting the camera to the tree
6: I have attached bark from the same type of tree it is attached to
7: I have placed the locking cable so that if someone actually sees the camera and gets a ladder and reads the warning then they will see the cable and hopefully be deterred.
I have not lost any cameras yet but it will happen. The bear box will also stop vandals pretty well also.