Would you check someone else’s trail cam?

[LDennis24]

Yeah good save!    Its definitely one guy.... eerr leprechaun running through the forest causing mischief and deleting SD cards and stealing cameras. He covers more ground than John Colter in a day and knows where the big bucks hide out! 😆 🤣 😂

[TimberMuleys]

You can’t start a thread like this, then get upset when someone posts a knee jerk reaction to it.

Not upset, just commented that it was sad. Should’ve worded that better. I could really care less what everyone thinks about the bucks I shoot/don’t shoot. If you do care, you’re hunting for the wrong reasons in my opinion.


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[TimberMuleys]

You can’t start a thread like this, then get upset when someone posts a knee jerk reaction to it. 
This should have been a poll

How do you start a poll? You’re right, that would’ve been much more effective.


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[LDennis24]

When you go to the trail cam page you click new poll instead of new thread

[MeepDog]

Can we ban the people who vote in the poll that they check other peoples cam? 

[jasnt]

You can’t start a thread like this, then get upset when someone posts a knee jerk reaction to it. 
This should have been a poll

How do you start a poll? You’re right, that would’ve been much more effective.


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I think a poll would have been better because it allows anonymous answers. After the 4th or 5th no people can get nervous about saying yes.   

No I don’t care about the bucks you shoot, you can’t compete with me because I want you to win too.  It’s probably too late for the poll now unfortunately

[Feathernfurr]

I’ll be an anomaly in this one. I don’t really care if you check my cameras. If you’re in an area I’m hunting, you probably have cameras up and are seeing all the same things I see. Checking my camera is 1000x better than sabotaging it or stealing it.

I have checked one other persons camera in my life, about a decade ago, over a giant pile of corn in a state where you’re not allowed to bait. With that being said I hunt an extremely high pressure area for whitetails these days, and there’s about 10-15 guys that hunt it very hard. We’re all friends now, but I know for a fact that a good amount of those guys have checked other people’s cards.

This thread may give that idea that people don’t check other people’s cards, but I don’t think that’s the reality.

Personally I have no interest in checking someone else’s card these days. I wouldn’t hesitate to though, circumstantially. If I’m hunting private and no one else is supposed to be there, I’m checking it. If I’ve shot an animal and I were to cross a camera while I’m trying to recover the animal, I absolutely would check it.

[Mtnwalker]

You can’t start a thread like this, then get upset when someone posts a knee jerk reaction to it. 
This should have been a poll

I don't see any problem with OP's post and we absolutely should be able to discuss each other's views on ethics and morals without it turning into a dumpster fire. We're losing the ability to have civil discourse on this forum and online in general. I always enjoy seeing the reactions to these situational threads, sometimes it even gains me a perspective I hadn't previously considered. Knee jerk reaction is on the responder

[hunter399]

I’ll be an anomaly in this one. I don’t really care if you check my cameras. If you’re in an area I’m hunting, you probably have cameras up and are seeing all the same things I see. Checking my camera is 1000x better than sabotaging it or stealing it.

I have checked one other persons camera in my life, about a decade ago, over a giant pile of corn in a state where you’re not allowed to bait. With that being said I hunt an extremely high pressure area for whitetails these days, and there’s about 10-15 guys that hunt it very hard. We’re all friends now, but I know for a fact that a good amount of those guys have checked other people’s cards.

This thread may give that idea that people don’t check other people’s cards, but I don’t think that’s the reality.

Personally I have no interest in checking someone else’s card these days. I wouldn’t hesitate to though, circumstantially. If I’m hunting private and no one else is supposed to be there, I’m checking it. If I’ve shot an animal and I were to cross a camera while I’m trying to recover the animal, I absolutely would check it.

I'm trying to grasp the reality of because your trying to recover an animal. It suddenly gives you more of a right to check someone's camera. Fire off a shot or two,yup I can check it now.... 😂

I also agree a tiny bit that reality is different than most response on this topic. Kinda the reason I own 200.00+ dollars in cable locks.
Have spent countless hours and weld wire putting lock boxes together.

[hunter399]

Absolutely NOT! And what would you do if you caught somebody checking yours?

I can't really say ,till I'm put in that position.
Can say I wouldn't want to be that guy that gets caught.
Hard to get caught,when you delete the photos of yourself... 😂

[Feathernfurr]

I’ll be an anomaly in this one. I don’t really care if you check my cameras. If you’re in an area I’m hunting, you probably have cameras up and are seeing all the same things I see. Checking my camera is 1000x better than sabotaging it or stealing it.

I have checked one other persons camera in my life, about a decade ago, over a giant pile of corn in a state where you’re not allowed to bait. With that being said I hunt an extremely high pressure area for whitetails these days, and there’s about 10-15 guys that hunt it very hard. We’re all friends now, but I know for a fact that a good amount of those guys have checked other people’s cards.

This thread may give that idea that people don’t check other people’s cards, but I don’t think that’s the reality.

Personally I have no interest in checking someone else’s card these days. I wouldn’t hesitate to though, circumstantially. If I’m hunting private and no one else is supposed to be there, I’m checking it. If I’ve shot an animal and I were to cross a camera while I’m trying to recover the animal, I absolutely would check it.

I'm trying to grasp the reality of because your trying to recover an animal. It suddenly gives you more of a right to check someone's camera. Fire off a shot or two,yup I can check it now.... 😂

I also agree a tiny bit that reality is different than most response on this topic. Kinda the reason I own 200.00+ dollars in cable locks.
Have spent countless hours and weld wire putting lock boxes together.

Easy, I have a responsibility to do everything in my power to recover an animal. I big game hunt exclusively archery. Weird things happen, animals duck shots, broadheads don’t deploy, vegetation deflects arrows, a million other possibilities. I’ve blood trailed a couple hundred archery kills between my own and my core family/friend group. I’ve seen just as many that don’t make sense as I have that make sense. Case in point, this year I shot a WT that I was 100% certain was high and back. I backed out and gave the buck 12 hours with the thought that I had most likely hit liver, if anything lethal, despite good blood for the first 40 yards of the trail. In that time span, despite cold temps, we lost 3-4 inches of snow. The blood trail was almost completely gone, even the 40 yards that I had previously seen. Luckily we managed to follow some discolored snow and tracks to recover the buck in 110 yards with a double lung shot. However, had we not found him in that time span, and completely lost blood, we would have resorted to gridding/body searching. At which point, if I was to cross a camera that I thought potentially captured a photo of the deer I shot and given me any insight to the lethality of the shot, I would check that card.

[boneaddict]

I’d be more likely to take a sledge hammer to one than I would to check it.  I’m getting sick of side stepping them all over the place.  I go to the woods to get away from being recorded all the time. Tired of the damage caused by them etc.  I haven’t done either, just saying. 

[Feathernfurr]

Agreed Boneaddict, as much as I love having them I would love to see states make it illegal to run them on *public* during active seasons. Use em to scout and for inventory during the offseason, then pulled from the field.

Edited. On private land whatever the owner wants to do is fair game!

[KrisKamm27]

It would be a funny sting operation to set up a very obvious and valuable camera. Then have a couple concealed camera's set up to have multiple angles on the bait camera. Catch someone stealing a camera then track them down and ID them and get the cops involved.  Its oddly rewarding to see a thief busted. One of my occasional rabbit holes is police body cams catching shoplifters. Its sort of morbidly sad but at the same time rewarding. Or store security cams catching cashiers sliding cash into their pocket. Its like having your 4yr old stealing a cookie and saying they didnt do it.

[TimberMuleys]

Agreed Boneaddict, as much as I love having them I would love to see states make it illegal to run them on private during active seasons. Use em to scout and for inventory during the offseason, then pulled from the field.

I would disagree on this personally. Why does it matter if someone puts up a camera on a tree? Is it really affecting you?


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