Thieving Rat *censored*s!!!

[lokidog]

Crap that even beats where someone came in with either a Sawsall or a hand  saw and cut the bolts that had the lock box secured to the tree and took the whole shebang.
Or the forest service employee that had pictures of being to only person in 2 weeks on a claim that had a camera missing, but because did not have pictures of him actually taking the camera everything was circumstantial. Feel for your loss and frustration. Makes you want to load a dummy camera with an exploding dye pack of permanent florescent green dye.

Holy moly, anyone who’s willing to go through all that is a thief all the way to the core and deserves to be punished. I’ve thought about putting another camera directly above pointing downward but you’d just get pics of the top of someone’s head or a blurry pic of a guy in a hoody. I’d rather dig a 10 foot deep pit right in front of the camera covered with tree limbs but I have a feeling our pansy ass court system would frown upon that

Only if the pit was not deep enough.....   

[jackelope]

Maybe his flashlight died and he needed batteries?
Just a thought.

I’ll bet you $3 that isn’t what happened.

[pd]

Sorry to hear this.

I have posted this story before, I think.  A few years ago, fairly high in the Idaho mountains, along a fairly well known hiking trail, I had hung a camera, secured to a tree with lag bolts and a bear box, secured with a cable.  I wasn't able to check it for about 15 months.  When I finally went there (3 hours from the nearest town, another 2 hours in hiking), I found my camera spot.  Some dirt bag had broken the cable, took the camera, but left the bear box.  Coup-de-grace was the Snickers package that they kindly left in my bear box.   Sorry, you did not impress me that day.

[callturner]

I'm stiff legged but just cause I'm old! I hate thieves!

[Timberstalker]

Maybe I’ll bet you $4, Jack!

But in all seriousness, that’s crap that they stole those items from you. Sorry for your luck.

[KFhunter]

Sorry to hear this.

I have posted this story before, I think.  A few years ago, fairly high in the Idaho mountains, along a fairly well known hiking trail, I had hung a camera, secured to a tree with lag bolts and a bear box, secured with a cable.  I wasn't able to check it for about 15 months.  When I finally went there (3 hours from the nearest town, another 2 hours in hiking), I found my camera spot.  Some dirt bag had broken the cable, took the camera, but left the bear box.  Coup-de-grace was the Snickers package that they kindly left in my bear box.   Sorry, you did not impress me that day.

found one in idaho, same deal, bear box the whole 9 yards

someone put what looked like a .338 ultramag right though the side of it.  It sure scrambled everything inside that metal box

[huntnphool]

My guess is you could meet him if you wait there during hunting season.

[hunter399]

My best guess ......
They wanted to see what's on your camera.
Or the old that camera is in my hunting spot.
Or both.
Alot of people say it's rude to hunt where others are actively hunting.It doesn't hurt my feelings at all.
The game has changed ,I very rarely change my hunting plans based off how many other hunters are in an area.

[Skyvalhunter]

You can bank on the fact at some point he will be back. Place a cam higher up next time.

[KFhunter]

You can bank on the fact at some point he will be back. Place a cam higher up next time.

So some poor dude, trying to hunt on public, is going to get jumped and harassed?

[birddogdad]

that far back in , maybe he thought it was abandon or it was being staked or claimed... have read those clean up and remove posts here too......hehe

sucks people cant leave stuff alone ALL THE TIME~!~~

[GWP]

I am guessing it was someone's 'secret' area, and they didn't like your camera there.

[pianoman9701]

I'm anticipating these problems by getting cheap ones off of Camofire.

[jrebel]

The fact that he didn't take the entire set up or destroy the entire set up tells me it was likely someone that wanted to see what is on the SD card.  Probably new to the area and exploring when they found it.  The taking of the batteries was just a dick move....but likely not some ones "secret" area (if you will). 

This does not justify the action...but if it were someone that was so protective of a specific area (territorial) they would have likely taken the entire cam.  People that have the mindset that a piece of public land is theirs and they have "staked it out" are usually pretty brazen when it comes to protecting it.....at least in my run ins with these types. 

None the less it sucks it happened but on the bright side...they didn't take the camera.   

[headshot5]

I'd say you lucked out with not taking the camera.   Good indication that you might want to camouflage your setup a little better.   Also the suggestions to put them higher up in a tree is a good idea.  It sucks, thieves are scum.  Whoever the thief was probably was short batteries for his own camera (in the general vicinity), otherwise why take them.