someone has found my trail cam

[Blacktail Sniper]

Do you think that your camera was actually messed with or pictures erased, or since you did get some pictures in a two week period, that his activity may just moved the critters away?? 

[SCRUBS]

Public land you just got to roll with the punches.  I for one have to much respect for my fellow hunters space.  If I see someone is set up in an area I wish to hunt I will not crowd them I'll move along.

 

Wish others did the same...

[demontang]

Well when I go check and only have pics of coyotes and it pretty obvise that deer and elk have been in without a single pic of one. My bolts for my cam where kind of stripped like someone used the wrong size wrench too. He set up his stand where he can look and and see my cam and mineral block. Ive hunted this area for the last 5 years straight with out seeing a single person so it kind of sucks

[bmccalister]

This guy does not sound like a very ethical hunter. It probably would be a good idea to move on to a different area and try to keep an eye on this guy; if possible. It is one thing to share an area with a fellow hunter but another to interfere with other hunters. Kind of like when you park at the beginning of and start hunting down an old abandoned skid or logging road that goes nowhere and a road hunt drives past you.

[woodman]

This guy does not sound like a very ethical hunter. It probably would be a good idea to move on to a different area and try to keep an eye on this guy; if possible. It is one thing to share an area with a fellow hunter but another to interfere with other hunters. Kind of like when you park at the beginning of and start hunting down an old abandoned skid or logging road that goes nowhere and a road hunt drives past you.

I absolutely love this response!

[dscubame]

This guy does not sound like a very ethical hunter. It probably would be a good idea to move on to a different area and try to keep an eye on this guy; if possible. It is one thing to share an area with a fellow hunter but another to interfere with other hunters. Kind of like when you park at the beginning of and start hunting down an old abandoned skid or logging road that goes nowhere and a road hunt drives past you.

I absolutely love this response!

LOL

[coachcw]

you could leave a bunch of human scent in there if you know what I mean . or just figure out where the elk will go when he bumps them.

[Heredoggydoggy]

you could leave a bunch of human scent in there if you know what I mean . or just figure out where the elk will go when he bumps them.

There's probably already a lot of human scent in there.  That's why the picture count went from 3-400 to 60.  He has been there so much the place REEKS of human scent.  It's public land--find a less contaminated spot! 

[bullseeker]

So you have a camera up and some mineral. This guys takes the time to hang a stand on public ground in your area. But you have yet to hang a stand? Maybe he thinks you are not hunting it or hunting it later. All is fair on public land. Also maybe leave him a note on his stand and get in touch with him, heck you might know him.

[demontang]

Im just moving on. I dont tree stand hunt ill us a blind normaly or juat sit where I know they will walk by. Just think its unethical to move in on soneone set up ive moved away from every area I have known theres a cam but thats just me

[huntnnw]

So you have a camera up and some mineral. This guys takes the time to hang a stand on public ground in your area. But you have yet to hang a stand? Maybe he thinks you are not hunting it or hunting it later. All is fair on public land. Also maybe leave him a note on his stand and get in touch with him, heck you might know him.

oh hell no! u see a guys cam and mineral site and hang a stand? nope not flying with me

[Elkrunner]

Well when I go check and only have pics of coyotes and it pretty obvise that deer and elk have been in without a single pic of one. My bolts for my cam where kind of stripped like someone used the wrong size wrench too. He set up his stand where he can look and and see my cam and mineral block. Ive hunted this area for the last 5 years straight with out seeing a single person so it kind of sucks

What unit is this in?

[arees]

I have issues with people declaring some piece of public land to be their place.  Many people can be using the woods that you never know about, at least until you start putting up cameras.  How many years have you been running a camera at that spot?

I usually still hunt, moving through my favorite areas leaving minimal traces.  If you set up a camera on a spot that I have still hunted for years, who is encroaching on who's spot?

If I have been still hunting a spot for years and decide to set up a stand this year, am I a new interloper into someone's area because they now see my stand?

If I have been using a temporary blind in a spot for years and someone sets up a camera there does that mean the spot is theirs and that I have to move on?  Can I set up a tree stand on a spot I have been hunting for years?

In the end, I try to avoid other people.  When someone sets up in a spot I have been hunting, no matter how long, I tend to adjust how I hunt to avoid them.  I'm sure that those people are thinking that the spot is theirs because they dumped a salt block and set up a camera this year.

Everybody owns the public land equally.  Some of us just do it without leaving our stuff in the woods.

[CamoDup]

So you have a camera up and some mineral. This guys takes the time to hang a stand on public ground in your area. But you have yet to hang a stand? Maybe he thinks you are not hunting it or hunting it later. All is fair on public land. Also maybe leave him a note on his stand and get in touch with him, heck you might know him.

oh hell no! u see a guys cam and mineral site and hang a stand? nope not flying with me

  If I took the time to pack in a block and camera and someone hangs a stand over it.... I would not be very happy at all either. No one can be that oblivious to their surroundings if they call themselves a "hunter". And I'm assuming this is an archery "hunter"....?

[Hornhound 09]

If I was you, I would take my camera down and take his tree stand!!