Help with locating Whatcom County Thief (Updated)

[go4itlab]

A message for the guy that stole my trail cam and hunted out of my ground blind some time over the last 72hrs, and then was stupid enough to drive his WHTIE LIFTED DODGE DEISEL TRUCK OUT  into the back of the field to either hunt again and/or to finish stealing my stuff tonight. SURPRISE, SURPRISE I WAS IN THE GROUND BLIND TONIGHT, I SAW YOU AND I KNOW YOUR TRUCK!!!!!You travel the Guide Meridian on a regular basis, RETURN THE CAM, PLACE IT IN THE GROUND BLIND YOU WERE HUNTING OUT OF AND DON'T EVER HUNT THAT SPOT AGAIN, I WILL FIND YOU!!!! If anyone on here has a kid or knows of this guy with this truck and all of sudden mysteriously has a Bushnell Bone Collector trail cam. PM me or make him do the right thing. Tell him to get a job and quite being a load!!!!!!!!!!! DO THE RIGHT THING, MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT I WILL FIND YOU. My first stop tomorrow will be Dave Sporting Good in Lynden. Like I said I KNOW YOUR TRUCK!!!!! OH AND IF YOUR A MEMBER OR KNOW HIM PASS THIS ON TOO, I LIVE RIGHT BY THE SPOT AND HAVE A MULTI SEASON TAG AND I AM AND WILL BE THERE ON REGULAR BASIS. SO MAKE SURE YOU SNEAK YOUR WORTHLESS ASS OUT THERE.

[BOWHUNTER45]

WOW :yike:I WOULD BE PEEESED TOO ! I hate people who steal  I found a trailcam in my honey hole the other night ...yeah I was a little ticked but I just waved and moved on ...thats what everyone who finds someone else stuff should do !!

[robescc]

Don't take me wrong, but if this was on public land, there is really nothing you can do to keep him out of your blind. I wouldn't hunt it but it wouldn't be wrong. As far as the camera, you shouldn't steal it but if it was on public land, what do you expect? Things are too crazy today for me to trust someone to not use or take the stuff I leave on public land. Sorry you lost out on the trail cam.

[go4itlab]

cboom pm sent, thanks for helping. If anyone see pics or hears of these deer being taken PM me. The 4x3 with eye guards has a main beam that is bent to the left on the left side, the lil 3 whatever tall and narrow, the 3x2 has almost a corkscrew look to his antlers and the last pics I have of him he looks like he might of lost his right eye. Seems like unique racks, except for the lil 3.

[blacktailer]

Hey CBoom "AKA Goob"  who is this.  Where is it at.  I have a couple of lifted white dodges that come to mind

[go4itlab]

What I expect is for people to have a little integrity, if its not yours don't take it. That's not what this sport is about. I grew up hunting, being taught to respect the land, peoples property and if I want something work hard and buy it. Today you got people leaving garbage behind, destroying peoples property/land and taking everything and anything that's not bolted down. I grew up North of Spokane around Mead and Deer Park. I have friends/family still over there that have to worry about there kids during modern fire arm season from the road hunters, people trespassing on there property, stealing stuff from there cars, truck and out building. Hell last year during late archery we had someone steal a large tote off my trailer and Millers Outpost while we were inside paying for gas. It was every piece of hunting clothes, spotting scopes, etc.. my buddy owned. It's not the way people should be acting. If I had my way I would hold court right in the field with these people, judge, Jury and executioner or limb remover.

[TeacherMan]

I always wanted to set a trail camera up in an obvious spot with another camera hidden pointed at it. Make it a cheap or even broken camera in the obvious spot, a decoy. Take pics of people trying to steal it (Id cable it so it would be difficult) and then make a thread posting their pics 

Side note: all my traps I cable to a tree with 1/8 cable. I carry a swedger with me in the field and when I'm ready to retrieve my traps I actually have to cut the cable with my cable cutters. Most people can't cut 1/8" cable in the field. I have people every year try and just give up. Maybe a good idea to do this with your trail cameras.

[pips4bucks]

Pm sent

[go4itlab]

Joel

 PM sent, If your not getting dirty in the cacliner, stop by sometime in the Crude Shelter and visit me.

Kurt

[go4itlab]

TeacherMan,

The thought has crossed my mind, and leave a note inside or hold a note up to the cam saying r sure you got every cam. If not I got your picture and the rig you drove in with, including your plate. Be excepting a visit from the sherif, you LOAD!!!!

[TeacherMan]

TeacherMan,

The thought has crossed my mind, and leave a note inside or hold a note up to the cam saying r sure you got every cam. If not I got your picture and the rig you drove in with, including your plate. Be excepting a visit from the sherif, you LOAD!!!!

that would be priceless to see their face 

[spike50]

i will keep my eye out for that white pickup. not sure what part of the county you are haunting, but i hate to hear about this, especially since i live and play in whatcom.

[shanevg]

I also had a trail cam stolen this week in Whatcom County.  I had the cam locked to a dead snag and whoever stole it pushed ove the snag and broke branches off to pull my cam over the top of it. 

Again - I have no problem with people hunting public land, I just don't get why you need to steal someone's trail cam.  Hopefuly I run into them in the spot soon so I can confront them. 

[pianoman9701]

Don't take me wrong, but if this was on public land, there is really nothing you can do to keep him out of your blind. I wouldn't hunt it but it wouldn't be wrong. As far as the camera, you shouldn't steal it but if it was on public land, what do you expect? Things are too crazy today for me to trust someone to not use or take the stuff I leave on public land. Sorry you lost out on the trail cam.

Well, I have to respectfully disagree with you. Ethics would dictate that you leave someone else's ground blind and camera alone. If you checked and no one was there, there's no reason not to hunt that area, but using or stealing someone else's stuff is unacceptable. As a matter of fact, if you are under the impression that someone has left something there and intends to come back for it, taking it is theft and punishable.

[Bean Counter]

Ethics? Camera: yes. Ground blind: maybe.

Here in the southwest, where water is scarce, hunting over water holes is more popular than the PNW. A camera isn't bothering me and doesn't affect my hunt, but a ground blind might. Its first come, first served, on a daily basis, for hunting over watering holes. You can't put up a ground blind to dibs a water tank for an entire season or even just the next day. I've come upon watering holes where there's a ground blind that wasn't in the spot I wanted to set up, so I left it alone. If the owner shows up after I do, according to the Game and Fish Dept, they are supposed to leave the area and let me hunt it, regardless of whether their blind is there. I've also come to water holes with ground blinds set up which were exactly in the spot that I did want to hunt. I didn't steal them, but I did take them apart and toss it aside. I am curious as to whether ethics of other hunters say I should have left it alone(?).

I heard the gammie for a unit nearby will go out in plain clothes and sit at a watering hole early in the morning. Occasionally a hunter will show up and say "this is MY water hole." The gammie is reputed to ticket such hunters! I like that