A Tree Mount for Your Game Camera
 

Van, you have too much time on your hands!! LOL Great Idea.

I posted this on another forum and received a comment from a guy who had a somewhat similar store bought mount. He had problems with squirrels sitting on the camera, and their weight would cause it to tilt toward the ground.

If you have that concern (or a heavy camera), replace the thumb screw and wing nut that hold the screw eye in place with a regular hex bolt and hex nut. Then use two small wrenches to really crank it down tight.

That might be a better way to go anyway. You'd just have to remember to stick the wrenches in your pocket.

That would be a good idea for those of us that hunt public land where unscrupulous individuals like to steal trail cameras. You could take one (or two) of those 3' stick ladder pieces and put it high enough where they couldn't see it or get to it.

In many of our public hunting areas you are not allowed to screw anything into a tree.