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Would you check someone else’s trail cam?
Timberstalker:
That's like walking into someone's tent and just "checking" things out, and walking out.
Not I. I actually try to walk around cameras I see in the woods.
:tup:
ghosthunter:
Nope not mine ,no touch.
Might be interesting to know age of responders to this question. I am guessing there is an age cut off between would and would not.
I am 73
BD1:
--- Quote from: follow maggie on January 15, 2025, 08:17:47 AM ---I wouldn’t. It’s not mine so I leave it alone. I might pose for it, though.
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:yeah: 100%
trophyhunt:
Normally no, don’t touch others stuff. But this one cell camera I found in the same spot for 3 years, it looked like it was abandoned or forgotten. I opened it up and water came out of it, the batteries were starting to rust the contacts, obviously hadn’t been opened in a long time. I took the batteries out, cleaned the contacts as well as I could, and took the card home to see if pics would give me any clues to who’s it was. Went back out and replaced w good batteries, put card back in, it gave me no clues to ownership. After installing new batteries, the cell cam wasn’t working so I just left it where it was. Pretty sure it’s still there today, I’ll check in a bit during shed season.
TimberMuleys:
--- Quote from: ghosthunter on January 15, 2025, 09:11:04 AM ---Nope not mine ,no touch.
Might be interesting to know age of responders to this question. I am guessing there is an age cut off between would and would not.
I am 73
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Could be. I asked the question because I wondered if I had become “numb” to having people mess with mine or people I knows cams. Seems like there’s always someone I know who has someone break it, steal cards, “snowball” the lens, steal the camera, point it away from the trail, etc., that just someone simply checking a card and putting it back doesn’t seem like a big deal to me anymore. I feel “lucky” that that is all they did. I currently run about 20+ cams year round and when running that many cams, you’re going to have run-ins with other hunters. If I don’t want my camera messed with, I put a lockbox on it. I see a camera as a tool, and if someone leaves a knife out in the woods, and I need to cut something, I may use it, but not take it. I don’t understand the other comments comparing it like going into someone’s tent. Nobody sleeps inside of cameras. Same with crab pots, you’re not directly affecting someone’s food source, or livelihood. If you want to compare it to a crab pot, I would see it more as looking at an underwater camera of the crab pot and seeing what is in it, not pulling it out and checking for crabs.
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