How do we stop thieves??
 

I don't know when I'll have more pics as my trail camera was stolen sometime last week. Can't believe the nerve of some people to come on private land and steal things. Found out one of the neighbors lost a trail camera about a week ago as well. People may say it'a my fault for not having enough security on the camera to prevent the theft and to that I say bologna!!! No one should be trespassing on my land in the first place and secondly what ever happened to honesty?? I have a second camera and might try to put that out with heavy security, but don't know if the person will be back or not anyway. any other thoughts?

Maybe a backup camera watching the first camera. Something mounted high enough to be out of sight.

Was it in a security box?
I have both of mine in security boxes and haven't had any problems in the 2yrs I've had them out.
Sounds like you need to find a junker camera and point another camera at it and try to find who's doing this.

Is your property posted?

I agree that you shouldn't have to lock it up on your own land.

But obviously what you and I think doesn't matter. I hope you get lucky and catch the idiot, but I'm afraid your probably SOL.

I have mine on private ground I have access to--but am still worried about it. it is in a security box lag bolted to a tree, wrapped with a cable lock--and a lock on the box for added measure-although the cable locks the box. When it comes down to it, if they want it they will get it.

I agree on buying wally world special 2-packs and setting them up to try and catch the guy

Stick your cameras higher aiming more downward. Get it out of a persons normal line of sight. Carry in a 3' ladder or something to get you a little higher. If you put a camera facing another camera then just to be safe you better put a camera facing the one thats facing the other one. Sounds like too many cams ending up in 1 spot.

Maybe rig the cover with an incinerary device which detonates when opened?
I always say, locks only keep the honest people out. Thieves will be thieves. Same goes with the bastards who steal tree stands. Sportsmanship is becomming a "lost" trait.

I agree with joe, get in cahoots with your neighbors and put some trail cameras together. One way up in a tree camouflaged real well positioned to take pictures of the one on the ground that someone can easily see to steal. Id make sure the one in the tree has a true infared flash or the flash turned off. Make sure that you at least put a cheap cable on the camera so that they have to work at getting it off the tree a little bit, that way it allows you too get some more pics of them. Good luck and nail em

It's hard enough to afford one decent camera, let alone a couple so to put a second camera watching the first isn't really a good option. I have discovered that someone about 3 miles from camera had one taken just this past week as well also got a picture of the persons back. I'm talking to the neighbors to warn them and also see if they have any pictures of strangers coming through the woods. Lunkerdog asked about the property being posted...it is, but in Wisconsin you don't need to post your land. It is up to the individual to know where they are (not always easy). Even if it wasn't posted, wouldn't honesty rule out and you would leave someones stuff alone. I will be locking things up tighter than I ever have before at the scrifice of losing mobility. I loved moving my camera around the property so that I could catch different deer...no bait for me except for a mock scrape. This was the first time that I left one of my cameras in the same spot for more than a week.

God my posts look awful when I don't proof them!

Maybe a sniper. That way the camera wont get stolen and you will get first hand knowledge of what is going through there. But on a serious note there is not much you can do except hide it really good. If they want it they will find a way to take it.

Ok a question for the techies (I know thats not a word) ok geeks. Do they make a small, and cheap enough GPS devise that we could put in our cams. So we could track these thieves down?

For that matter, are there any of the trailcam companys putting out a cam with a chip already in them?

OH OH, did I just miss out on a possible patent?

How about if you had only one cam out in the field and you left a note in it reading... "If you plan on taking this camera, you better make sure you take the other two cameras(which are nonexistant) which I have out here, because if I have a picture of you on one of the other two I will call the authorites and let them figure it out." I am going to do this. We'll see if it works.

I got my camera stolen last week on public land. I thought it was a possibility but it was a cheap camera and i made sure it was hidden real well but someone must of saw the flash or something and went to check it out. Thought people would have the courtesy of not stealing someone elses stuff but I guess i should of thought twice about that. I thought about trying to set up some way to catch them if they came back but figured it might not be worth it. Worst part was that i lost the memory card in it and didnt get to see the pictures since there was a fresh scrape fifteen yards in front of it that wasnt there when i set the camera up :-/

I understand what ya mean, good cameras are expensive but an idea is that, ur neighbors are getting stuff stolen too. So talk to them and go together on each using one of ur cameras and setting up a little trap for em.