Took a trip to WV this weekend to do some work on our properties. My camera must of flashed a pic of a bear and ticked him off, cause he destroyed it. Never thought about that happening. Can see the teeth marks and claw marks through the casing and everything. Thought the film would reveal some cool pics, but the film was destroyed.

ouch....that sucks....sorry to hear that...
hopefully you can go bear hunting and find that SOB and set him straight!! [:@][:@]

OUCH I dont know who woulda been amdder me for the bear eating it or the bear for making it mad.

Ah, another design category for those game cam techers to work towards....bear proof.

There are a couple of thingsyou coulddo to prevent that. 1) never let the person handling the bait touch the camera. The bears can smell the bait and think there is a treat inside the little box. 2) climb up the tree and hang the camera from a limb aiming down at the bait. 3) cut a jalpenio pepper in half just before you leave and rub it the juice on the outside of the camera.

No bait...just pointing at a salt hole.

Too bad the film was destroyed. Those would haev been some really cool pics.

I have had 2 Stealthcams destroyed by bears within the past 2 months here in Virginia, and last year I had a Moultrie destroyed in WV. I had a post on here "bears everywhere" and I posted some of the pics from the last camera that was destroyed, luckily the film was ok. I finally broke down and went to the metal shop at work and built a steel box to enclose the camera. Iguaranteeno bear is going to get that open!!

No bear problems here in TX but I think I read somewhere they like
the smell and taste of film.

Yep...I logged in going to post tha, and you beat me to it and I lost the thread