Alternative perspective on messing with others’ game cams

[bobcat]

All I can say is I'd rather have someone "mess" with my camera than steal it or destroy it. I mostly have used trail cams on private property but have on public a couple times. I do admit I feel that it's somewhat a violation of people's privacy. All you can do is try to put them in very remote spots where most people aren't going to go.

[bornhunter]

Sounds like welfare. I'll reap the rewards from someone else's work. Just leave other peoples stuff alone. Its that simple.

[grundy53]

If it isn't yours leave it be. Just my opinion.

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[shallowforks]

OH MAH.  Obviously the law says that your scenario would be auto theft. I respect your point of view. What about a guy who watches a waterhole from a glassing point for a week straight before season and on the afternoon before opener he sees another guy walk in to the waterhole to pick up a camera and walk off. That might feel a little like getting cheated but the guy who placed the camera didn't do anything illegal or wrong. just because one feels like hes been cheated in a sense doesn't mean someone else has done anything wrong does it? One opens themselves up to these possibilities when placing a camera on public property, so one should understand this before doing so. I don't really get the whole vehicle argument either as one scenario is written in law as illegal passed on by our voting population at some point in the past where as the other scenario is perfectly legal.

[shallowforks]

Sounds like welfare. I'll reap the rewards from someone else's work. Just leave other peoples stuff alone. Its that simple.

to some of us it is that simple. To others its as simple as "its on public land and its perfectly legal" Both arguments seem to be right

[Boss .300 winmag]

So shallowforks you go out to a bar with your significant other, you get tired and decide to leave for the night but she stays, by your definition she’s free game, you left her in a public place. 🤔

[CedarPants]

I respectfully disagree that both arguements are right.

[h20hunter]

All you sound like is a person that uses excuses to use others efforts for your own gains.  Nothing you say will change the fact you are advocating for the idea that messing with anothers camera is in some way justified.  It isn't.  It is not yours.

Regardless of the legal definition the thought that it makes anything right in this situation is absurd.

[shallowforks]

So shallowforks you go out to a bar with your significant other, you get tired and decide to leave for the night but she stays, by your definition she’s free game, you left her in a public place. 🤔

this is a good one. to that I would say. My significant other is not my personal property but in charge of herself and fully capable of making her own decisions. lol

[Magnum_Willys]

What I really don’t like is the “staking claim” of public land that a cam represents.  Suppose you and your family has been hunting a wallow/waterhole for years and now you go in to scout a couple days before the season and its got 3 cams on it?  Do you hunt it?  The Cam guy figures he scouted and checked cams all summer and now you are freeloading on “his” spot.   No ones happy thanks to the cams.   

[simondude]

If you find a treestand in the woods would you be fine with sitting in it? Or would you be fine with someone sitting in yours?

[shallowforks]

All you sound like is a person that uses excuses to use others efforts for your own gains.  Nothing you say will change the fact you are advocating for the idea that messing with anothers camera is in some way justified.  It isn't.  It is not yours.

Regardless of the legal definition the thought that it makes anything right in this situation is absurd.

I respect your opinion. And remember, personally, I abide by the its not mine I will leave it alone philosophy. I just don't see the issue as cut and dry as some do.

[CedarPants]

Nobody in my hunting group feels that hanging a cam makes a spot "ours".  I think you are over-generalizing a bit there Magnum

[shallowforks]

What I really don’t like is the “staking claim” of public land that a cam represents.  Suppose you and your family has been hunting a wallow/waterhole for years and now you go in to scout a couple days before the season and its got 3 cams on it?  Do you hunt it?  The Cam guy figures he scouted and checked cams all summer and now you are freeloading on “his” spot.   No ones happy thanks to the cams.   

I totally understand this sentiment.

[shallowforks]

If you find a treestand in the woods would you be fine with sitting in it? Or would you be fine with someone sitting in yours?

to be clear we are talking public land here. I would say if I found a stand I would probably not sit in it. I would also never say never, as I cant predict all scenarios. for example if I came upon a wallow and had a hot bull bugling near by and said bull started working toward the waterhole so I scanned the surrounding area for a hiding spot and I happened to see a treestand and it happened to be downwind of the incoming bull I would probably sit in it. rare scenario but possible. On the other hand, I wouldn't say Id be FINE with finding another hunter in my stand but I wouldn't me mad at him, just bummed that someone else found it. He didn't do anything wrong.