What you need are those really big as$ grizzly bear leg hold traps just below every window. Might stink a bit and have to clean a bit of a mess when you get there but would likely rid you of the vermin

People do things they later regret. I know 2 people that righted the wrong they did at an earlier time in their lives. Maybe it will happen for you. Give people the opportunity to repent and they just might. You said it could have been much worse. That shows some conscience.

One guy here caught some person stealing his game cam with another cam place secretly. It's an idea.

Glad to hear it wasn't too bad. Sorry to say but, it is most likely local kids looking for something to do. It's way to common. I have a buddy that has had his place broke into several times, can't stop them if they really want in. Just don't leave anything of value.[>:]

uphunter15,

Sorry to hear about the camp. My good friend's camp was also broken into, and it's become a regular thing. They stole our generator and toolbox.

His camp is in a really remote location, but now that everybody has ATV's and the police fail to regulate them properly, they are running around everywhere. They trashed his camp and they do it pretty often.

So, he was forced to board over the windows with plywood and has made a removable piece in the floorboards with a 5'x6', 4' deep box beneath. All the goodies are stowed away in there, and the heathen kids haven't been smart enough to find anything yet.

Fire insurance will cover it if they opt to burn the place down, I guess.

Shame that people let their kids act like that.

Sorry to hear about your beak-in.

My father-in-law has property down in southern Illinois and that's exactly the reason why he dosen't build something on it. At one time years ago there was a house on the property and there is still the water and electricity hookups, but he won't budge. He would rather stay in a hotel a 1/2 hr away. It's a shame it's come to this.

I hope it dosen't happen again and I hope they catch the ones who broke in.

That sucks.[:@]

when u find them and if u do smack them in the face for me
and go up behind them cup your hands and hit them on the ears with the cup'd part covering both the ears at the same time. it hurst likea MOTHER!

I've got 80 in Northwest Illinois and I'd love to build something on it but I just don't trust some of the neighbors. The first time I went out to hunt on it during turkey season I met a trespaser who was poaching on the property. He gave me excuse after excuse and it came down to his being beer buddies with the former owners and current neighbors. They gave him permission to hunt it about 15 years ago and nothing I can say will convince him that he can't continue to hunt it like he used to. I tossed him off of the property twice more during deer season and I've found my property messed with. He tried stealing a tree stand but couldn't saw through the chain (but he sure tried), I found big tire rusts through my food plot that match the tire tracks on his truck, and I found 2 gut piles that neither me nor anyone else I gave permission to hunt did.
If I built anything on this property this guy would destroy it. If I was to leave a camper on the property this guy would steal it. It's a huge shame that it only takes one jerk to really ruin what you've worked so hard for. Lately I've been thinking of selling the place and buying again but I really like the property. It's got great deer and turkey.

Thanks for the replies!!! You know what the sad thing is, if it was a few kids that did it, someday they are going to own or be a part of something and it will happen to them. What comes around goes around, Right!!! We aren't going to search hard for who did it but just spread the word around and eventually it will get back to us. We live in a small town and unless it was someone from out of the area, word usually gets out. It is nice to have good neighboring camps that check on yours from time to time as we do for them and it is equally nice to have some of our local city and county law enforcement officers with camps right in the area, helps keep most people honest who know they are there. I do believe it was kids looking for a good time but we don't leave anything like booze or money in the camp. The only thing that I was surprised that wasn't missing, that is if it were kids, were the swisher sweet cigars. They took them out but left them on the counter. Maybe those anti-smoking adds got to them

I have two diffrent camp broken into on more then one occasion so I feel your pain. Mostly they were just destroying stuff but before we knew better we had a couple of colman lanterns and a canoe stolen.

It sucks you can't trust people but that's just a fact of life. lock it up and take anything of vaule with you. I hope you catch the sob that did it. Maybe if we flogged people like they do in Singapor then we wouldn't have issues like this to deal with.