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Community => Trail Cameras => Topic started by: HoofsandWings on September 25, 2016, 02:24:30 PM

Title: Why do people want to cover the trail cam so their picture will not be taken
Post by: HoofsandWings on September 25, 2016, 02:24:30 PM: Last day of archery elk, someone put a cover on the trail camera and a few hours later removed it.
As remote as the spot was, they could have been doing something illegal, and there would be no witnesses.
But possibly, they were camera shy.
Title: Re: Why do people want to cover the trail cam so their picture will not be taken
Post by: MtnMuley on September 25, 2016, 02:26:50 PM: Lots of guys don't want their pic taken. Me included. :twocents:
Title: Re: Why do people want to cover the trail cam so their picture will not be taken
Post by: Blacktail Sniper on September 25, 2016, 02:34:28 PM: Quote from: HoofsandWings on September 25, 2016, 02:24:30 PM
Last day of archery elk, someone put a cover on the trail camera and a few hours later removed it.
As remote as the spot was, they could have been doing something illegal, and there would be no witnesses.
But possibly, they were camera shy.

But with a trail camera there, there were possible witnesses....
Title: Re: Why do people want to cover the trail cam so their picture will not be taken
Post by: Goex2Fwithroundball on September 25, 2016, 02:47:56 PM: I was recently setting up a blind a few weeks prior to archery season with my son. We came across a game camera on the trail. I covered the lens with a piece of moss as a courtesy not to use up the memory card. When we were finished in the area I removed the moss before leaving.
Title: Re: Why do people want to cover the trail cam so their picture will not be taken
Post by: Becky on September 25, 2016, 03:14:34 PM: Quote from: MtnMuley on September 25, 2016, 02:26:50 PM
Lots of guys don't want their pic taken. Me included. :twocents:
:yeah:
As said right in the original post, "As remote as the spot was" maybe a lot of us like to go into the woods for privacy. Yea yea there's "no" privacy.. but not everyone wants to be watched so why is it automatically something illegal if they prevented pictures from being taken of them. They didn't damage or steal the camera, good on them for finding a way to cover it without destroying it (like we seen so many times).
Title: Re: Why do people want to cover the trail cam so their picture will not be taken
Post by: HoofsandWings on September 25, 2016, 04:17:47 PM: Quote from: Smossy's Girl on September 25, 2016, 03:14:34 PM
Quote from: MtnMuley on September 25, 2016, 02:26:50 PM
Lots of guys don't want their pic taken. Me included. :twocents:
:yeah:
As said right in the original post, "As remote as the spot was" maybe a lot of us like to go into the woods for privacy. Yea yea there's "no" privacy.. but not everyone wants to be watched so why is it automatically something illegal if they prevented pictures from being taken of them. They didn't damage or steal the camera, good on them for finding a way to cover it without destroying it (like we seen so many times).
That python cable and metal security box may have slowed them down.
As for covering with moss, whatever they put over the lens led to about 50 pics of nothing.
The camera had been up for a while. There were over 500 pics covering a month that included cougar, coyote, spikes, 4 pt, 5 pt and 6 pt elk plus what looked like a 5 or 6 pt muley with a real wide rack. Lots of cows too. We saw bear scat, but he was camera shy.
Title: Re: Why do people want to cover the trail cam so their picture will not be taken
Post by: Firedogg on September 25, 2016, 11:31:30 PM: Maybe because it is not the lens that triggers the camera.
Title: Re: Why do people want to cover the trail cam so their picture will not be taken
Post by: jackelope on September 26, 2016, 09:14:56 AM: Quote from: Firedogg on September 25, 2016, 11:31:30 PM
Maybe because it is not the lens that triggers the camera.

The camera lens itself definitely doesn't trigger a picture.
Title: Re: Why do people want to cover the trail cam so their picture will not be taken
Post by: h2ofowlr on September 26, 2016, 09:17:45 AM: Maybe they don't want to end up on an internet thread titled, have you seen this guy. :chuckle: Be thankful they didn't try to remove it, to get their picture off the card.
Title: Re: Why do people want to cover the trail cam so their picture will not be taken
Post by: pianoman9701 on September 26, 2016, 09:32:52 AM: It's difficult to do a good meth cook while you're afraid of being identified. :tup:
Title: Re: Why do people want to cover the trail cam so their picture will not be taken
Post by: HoofsandWings on September 26, 2016, 06:38:47 PM: I just checked the archery regs.
There is no archery season in the unit.
Title: Re: Why do people want to cover the trail cam so their picture will not be taken
Post by: runamuk on September 26, 2016, 07:56:29 PM: Because big tex keeps reminding us nudity in the forest is illegal. :dunno:
Title: Re: Why do people want to cover the trail cam so their picture will not be taken
Post by: HoofsandWings on September 29, 2016, 09:41:52 PM: Nice pictures of bulls and cougar. Only one coyote.
Title: Re: Why do people want to cover the trail cam so their picture will not be taken
Post by: Bean Counter on October 01, 2016, 07:14:51 PM: Its not illegal to photograph someone in public domain. Even against their consent.
Title: Re: Why do people want to cover the trail cam so their picture will not be taken
Post by: ipkus on October 01, 2016, 07:31:21 PM: It's also not illegal to cover someone's camera while I do whatever I want to do on public ground within range of said camera.