Anybody have a good method of camouflaging their trail cams? I went to my lease the other day to get my feeders going and put batteries and new cards in my cameras. My cameras from both stands were gone. Ran over to my bro-in-law's stand, about 200 yds up and over a hill, and his was gone too. I don't trust the simple cable locks to keep a thief from cutting them. Though it's a shame that I may have to, I'm considering buying extra cameras to point at my cameras. Just saying that sounds retarded and pisses me off. I got no use for a thief!

What county are you hunting?

My only suggestion would be cellular cams. The. You could have a pic of who stole them.

I have the cable locks on my cellular cameras with the locked metal box covers. At least if they want to steal them they'll have to work for it a little.

Just had ours taken too, and they tore up the feeder. Thankfully I just get them used on eBay but it is a pain.

Been on my lease 7 years and have had 5 stolen. All cable locked, in metal box, lag screwed into a tree. They had to work for them. So frustrating, I put boards with nails in strategic places until my lawyer friend talked me down...

After a few problems I locked up my cameras . That must have pissed them off , so they just shot them then .

We had an ongoing issue of camera cards getting swiped, probably 10-12 of them from one feeder. So we finally wised up and hid a camera in a tree to catch the thief. A woodpecker destroyed that camera, and we never missed another card after that.

Where do y’all hunt that you’re running into such problems? Surely all of y’all aren’t in East Texas?!?

My SIL had one stolen where he had hunted for over 6 years. We put some in at tree looking onto the camera, but have not seen anyone on the cards. He hunts the back of our lease with the landowner's land behind him that is leased. Those hunters have been there 15+ years so we don't suspect them. Who knows, but it does suck when it happens. This is the reason I never leave valuable equipment in a stand. I used to hunt with guys that would leave a gun in the stand. Not me I remember my rifle is my friend and pushups. I never leave my rifle in a stand. We are in Hamilton Co.

been using cams for years, i enjoy the pics of wildlife, even on WMA's never had problems. Got several up here, so far .
Sorry ta hear the bad news.

Hope you catch the POS stealing them1

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Sasquatch has a pile of game cams back in his lair.

Gotta be East Texas ...

dang, I hate that. I've got 6 cams out right now. So far so good. However, I do put dummy (old not worky no more cameras)out at gates and feeders that can easily be seen and try to better hide my good trail cams. but I know is really is just matter of time before POS gets me too.

It would be a pain and you would have to carry an extension ladder, but if you have tall trees around you could try mounting them up high, and a little more concealed. Preferably on a limb that the wind wouldn't blow all the time.

All my etex cameras are in bear proof boxes bolted to the tree.

I lag screw the ones that I can to make it harder to steal. Been lucky so far.

Mikeydon has some good ones for sale cheap in the classifieds, for replacements. Well worth the money.

Thieves are everywhere

I have 6 Bushnell wireless cellular cams I'll sell you for a great deal. 4 have metal lock boxes you lag bolt into a tree. The idea is when someone goes to try and steal them, they have their picture taken as they walk up and begin stealing thecamera. That will happen and they won't know it. They were $300 each around a year ago when I bought them, plus accessories, locks etc which I also have. You can have them all for $800. I will guarantee they work although we would need to first make sure you get cellular service where you want to use them. I lost my lease and am not using them.

Must be a common practice in East Texas..... that's where it happened. Got my new cams in last week, but now I need to buy more cams to watch over the feeder cams.

Put a broken trail cam up easily visable. Put up a good camera and point it at the broken one. They won't figure you have 2 out on one spot. I cam mine by taping off the lens covers, spray camera with spray adhesive and apply real moss I bought from hobby lobbie. Good luck.