Camera stolen, what would you do....

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LAST EDITED ON Aug-18-10 AT 09:34AM (MST)[p]I went to check my cams on the Wasatch for my LE hunt coming up this weekend and what do you know, the camera was gone.
My camera was over 2 miles from the trail head. So I start looking around like a csi agent and notice that the thieves had tied their horses up to the tree next to where my cam was.
Then I remembered that when I was on my way in I passed a few guys pulling out from the trailhead with a trailer full of horses. This is a remote area that I have never seen another sole. It had rained a couple of days earlier so those were the only tracks in and out of there. I can almost garranty they will be sitting on that water hole on the opener. If I see there horses ties up near that water hole and I know they are in there I am tempted to untie their horses and smack them in the butt and let those clowns chase their horses around the mountains for a few days. Am I way out of line? I have given my self a few days to calm down and I am still just as fired up.

I had my camera open so a guy could pull out the card and see what was on it instead of clipping the lock and taking the whole camera. That sure back fired on me.
 
Would definately serve em right! Years ago hunting was the one place that you seemingly could trust people. I lost my wallet with a couple hundred bucks in it and a bowhunter returned it to me and didnt even want a reward for it. Now you dont even want to put out nice cameras for fear they will be gone. DIRTBAGS
 
Go to the vet and ask him for some dog tranquilizer, used to transport large dogs on long trips. Grind it all up and mix it with sugar. Let it dry and take it with you and give it to the horses the night before the hunt.

They can't swat flies with their tails, much less walk away from camp.

Now that would be way nasty, but then again, I am a vindictive AZZHOLE and I love revenge! Sane people should not generally take my advice in such matters.

I would say that your biggest problem right now, is being absolutely sure that you have the right perp. I wouldn't want to make a mistake here.
 
i also have a wasatch tag and have been nervous to even put anything out for fear that something would happen. My good buddy has already lost a tree stand and three camera's to some jerk. I would say do whatever you have to, to teach them a lesson.
 
Someone is making a "killing" off the stolen trail cameras. I had my memory card taken right out of the camera. I guess I am lucky to not have the camera taken. When will it stop? I actually thought about setting up another camera, hidden a little better, just to take pictures of the first camera I set out and hopefully capture a picture of the people stealing all the cameras and memory cards.

My camera was on the Wasatch front, over 2 miles from the road.

-Kevin
 
I had a card stolen this year. I had a buddy of mine help me weld up some security boxes. I also quit putting them right on the water holes. I put them on the trails leading in or out now. I dont get as many pictures, but I still have all my cameras.
 
We lost one last week as well on the wasatch, I have had a camera in this spot every year for a long time and never even taken a picture of a person, but when we went to check it last weekend it was gone.
 
I had my stolen on the wasatch also last weekend. Mine was up left hand fork of hobble creek. If you guys dont mind sharing what general area your cameras were stolen it would be nice to see if they are close to each other. I also have had my camera on the same water hole for the last four years. I also have shared photos with guys who have left cards for me to call. It sure does suck when you take the time to hike in and hike out. I took my two 6 year old boys and wife with me this last time. After 45 minutes of hiking with them to find out it was gone SUCKED. But it was a good chance to teach my boys about people who steal.
 
The stealing of cameras is getting out of hand, but we had someone take it to another level this year. We have put up a trail cam in an area we have hunted for the past couple years and never had any problems until last year. Someone broke the lock on our trail cam and stole the SD card last year, so we decided not to put a camera in this spot this year for my Bro-in-laws LE Wasatch archery elk hunt. We did, however, still plan to hunt the spot from a treestand over the waterhole. When we hiked in two weekends ago to check things out, some A$$ (probably the same guy or group that stole our card the year prior) had cut the tree down that our treestand was in with a chainsaw at the base of the tree and completely sabotaged the waterhole we have spent many years doctoring up.

I honestly can't believe someone would stoop to that level to sabotage someones hunt (this place is a ways back in and not easy to get to, so to take a chainsaw in there to cut a treestand down takes some serious effort and forethought). This crap is getting out of control and someone is going to do something stupid based on emotion and end up on the news and in the slammer. I hope it is not me :)
 
Look at how many things are happening on the wasatch unit just in this post. Thats why my question was, around what areas on the wasatch is this happening.
 
The one we had stolen was in Danials Canyon but i dont think it is all the same people just a lot of our fellow hunters/outdoorsman are thievs I would guess!
 
Stealing cameras can be anyone. Destroying a good hunting spot seems wierd. Am I out of line thinking this could be Anti's?
I was planning on leaving some cams up next week on the Wasatch between hunts but Jeez!! sounds like i'll just be throwing them away.
 
Went out last weekend to check on things in our area to find a camera set up in a tree right in the tree I have my stand in. Surely they had to see it. Instead of stealing the camera and being a low life jerk,I opened it up and polightly put a buisness card inside it and left it as if it were normal. The buisness card was left for him to call so we make sure that we wouldnt ruin eachothers hunt. But seeing people don't care about others stuff bugs me that's why my camera was not there. Hopefully by me showing some respect he wont be sitting in my treestand. I can only hope!
 
Did you guys ever think it was bigfoot watching all of you put up cams? Then when you leave he grabs and runs. You know he dont want pics of him at a water hole on the web. but you keep putting them up and they keep walking off. I bet the dudes makin these things are lovin the over time!
 
>Stealing cameras can be anyone. Destroying
>a good hunting spot seems
>wierd. Am I out of
>line thinking this could be
>Anti's?
>I was planning on leaving some
>cams up next week on
>the Wasatch between hunts but
>Jeez!! sounds like i'll just
>be throwing them away.

+1
I had a anti walk through a big basin we were hunting on opening day waving a orange flag a few years back...Anti will stop at nothing, and they are reading these blogs knowing how made it makes us all.... just food for thought!


<------<< I love it when the plan comes together.
 
I think Founder outta create a stolen camera forum. You guys can banter heinous plots and evil torture tricks that you'll perpetrate on the evildoers after you catch them...
 
I have had 2 cameras stolen in as many years, Damn It just pisses me off when I hike in miles to find out someone has helped themselves to something that doesn't belong to them, Well after alot of thought I've decided to try and come up with a trigger that would spray a good quantity of the strongest most insane smelling perfume available, In the same instance it would cure a couple of the problems, The perp would get sprayed and smell real purty when he gets home to wifey and the area may not be huntable for maybe a few weeks after, maybe one of those bathroom air freshener spayers that could run of of 6v and use the battery in the camera for the source, I have a few broken cameras from years past that could be used as dummy cameras, I like the ink idea, maybe ink as well as a strong perfume would do it, gotta love that.

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I have had one stolen too, a couple years back. Just no class in hunting anymore. I had a guy setup his cam over my salt 2 weeks ago. I could have opened his cam, or done whatever to it. Thats his property, and he has a right to hang it where he pleases, even over my salt lol.
 
Just put a note on the camera "Danger!! This camera may explode if moved!!" Owner is not responsible for any injury you may receive. You have been warned and it's a long way to the road.

Just hope they can read.
 
sounds to me like utardia is over carrying capacity....



JB
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I think a lot of it stems from all the hype of hunting shows, high dollar hunts, guide fees, the many years of applying it takes to get a tag, etc. What happened to just going out with your family and friends to have a good time. It's a huge competition now... Is that what we want to pass down to the next generation of hunters? Just my .02 cents...


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Dang,

I hard to take all the cameras getting swiped in UT. Hope that dont bleed into NM.

But unless you are 100% positive it was the guys on the horses. Would be better if you did not untie them.

Someone could get hurt over that.

Someone unties my horse with no reason there is going to be a fight.
 
We had a person put a camera directly across from ours on a small water hole pointing at our camera, we have tree stands and in there and everything. This doesnt bother me much its no big deal and the respected our camera and stands but I just dont understand why you would want to hunt in a spot that someone is obviously hunting already!
 
Sorry, if your not sitting there in your stand, you're not hunting! Putting up a stand and/or a trail camera does not tag a spot as an exclusive hunting spot.
 
Why is everybody so quick to accuse other hunters of stealing these cameras? There are so many anti's and tree hugging animal lovers out there hiking the forests every weekend I would bet the majority of cameras getting stolen are not from hunters.

Sure there are hunters who will and do steal so they can shoot the "big" one, but when there are so many non-hunters against us, wouldn't you be suspicious?
 
>Someone is making a "killing" off
>the stolen trail cameras.
>I had my memory card
>taken right out of the
>camera. I guess I
>am lucky to not have
>the camera taken. When
>will it stop? I
>actually thought about setting up
>another camera, hidden a little
>better, just to take pictures
>of the first camera I
>set out and hopefully capture
>a picture of the people
>stealing all the cameras and
>memory cards.
>
>My camera was on the Wasatch
>front, over 2 miles from
>the road.
>
>-Kevin
 
Here are a few ideas that are being kicked around at the Department of Interior.

A permit to leave a trail camera unattended on federal land.

No vehicles with a wheel base under 60"

No vehicles lighter than 1/2 ton.

No chemical or organic baiting of any animal.
 
MountainmanMac,

You would be way out of line if you untied someones horse('s). Number one your evidence didnt' prove to me that they were guilty, you do something like that you'd better be GDam sure. Also, you hade better be ready to accept the consequences of your actions. escalate it and someone ends up dead. Over a camera.
 
If you guys spent as much time actually scouting as you do dicking around with and bitching and moaning about these trail cameras, you wouldn't need the dam things.

Just for the record, I am anti trail camera but I would never mess with somebodys elses gear/equipment. Bad karma and breaks the golden rule.

In any event, if all this keeps up, something bad is gonna happen, somebody is gonna get hurt, somebody is gonna go to jail and then the government is gonna get involved and penalize all of us.

Wade
www.HardcoreOutdoor.com
 
All this camera theiving sucks. Just a thought, have any of you camera owners or past camera owners stopped to think that just maybe these spots you are setting up cameras in were discovered by other hunters years ago, perhaps even before you discovered your "secret spot" and maybe they were just as excited to check out the activity in the "secret spot" as you all are to check your sd cards only to find a camera sitting on said "secret spot". They were probably just as dissappointed to see your camera as you all were to not see your camera. I'm not siding with the theives or the camer owners. It sounds like frustrations of finding a camera in a favorite "secret spot" has caused some to vandalize and steal your property to make a statement that you have ruined an area by placing a man made object (that does not belong there) in an area they have enjoyed watching/hunting for years. This is the same dissappointment that triggers feelings of anger, rage and frustration when one hikes to the top of the mountain where no motorized vehicles are permitted and upon reaching the top, you discover atv's or motorcycle tracks. Public land is ment to be shared NOT claimed. I think to some, setting a tree stand or setting a trail camera in a "secret spot" is like reserving a spot on the side of the road with blanket and chairs for the 4th of July parade. Most people will respect the fact you reserved your seating but there will always be the chance you will have set your stuff up in someones "favorite spot" and when they find your blanket and chairs covering their "favorite spot", emotion may dictate their actions which may be out of the ordinary for that particular individual causing them to make a choice they normally would not consider. You've all heard of road rage, sounds like we have a new type of rage, simillar to that, called "secret spot" rage. Go ahead and fire away, I'm just telling it how I observe it.
 
My first inclination about stolen cameras only slightly leans towards other sportsmen... But honestly we are all ignoring a group that has been in the headlines lately...
I'm talking about Marijuana Farmers... They are turning up all over the state with their wilderness farms... If they're walking along a trail, going in to check on their crop, and they hear or see a camera, THEY WILL 100% YANK IT DOWN.

I would simply caution those of you having trouble with these thefts that you be alert and aware of your surroundings because I DO NOT want to hear about a bow hunter getting gunned down by illegal drug dealers.

Take care our there brothers..!!!

"Therefore, wo be unto him that is at ease in Zion!" 2 Ne. 28: 24
 
you could always buy a darrenger(sp?? a really small pistol) and tie a rope to the door of your trailcam to the trigger. then anyone who opens it and dont know it's there will at the least get a good scare??

these posts are rediculous, you dont "own" anything because you left something there. it's your own fault for not hideing it better. i hang mine 20 ft up in a tree, facing down at what i want pictures of. i get pictures of people all the time and they have no clue it's there. if you haven't realized it yet, there are ALOT of guys in this world you better not trust. so dont even give them the chance- take 5 screw in tree steps with you, hang the camera up high, facing down, and have a great time doing it.

and for the record, i absolutly would never even think about looking at someones SD card, and no way touch someones camera.BUT--- if i wanted to hunt an area, i wouldn't even think twice about NOT hunting there just because someone has a camera or tree stand there. you cant "reserve" public land. be the first one there that morning and start hunting. if your there before me, great- i'll move on. if your there after me, and expect me to move on because you had a camera/treestand there your crazy.
 
"But unless you are 100% positive it was the guys on the horses. Would be better if you did not untie them."


Yeah, correlation does not equal causality. Unless you KNOW they were the thieves, leave em well enough alone. Their horses may have obliterated the tracks of the thief if it wasn't them.
 
When you find them, take the saddle before you smack the horse on the butt. Then you can sell it and buy you a new camera.
 
They still hang horse thieves don't they?

Common sense says you leave an expensive piece of equipment unattended on public land there is a strong probability that it won't be there when you come back. Maybe it was a competitive hunter, a greenie weenie, a government agent, pot growers or little aliens from Mars. Who knows but the point is that you made a bet and lost. Nobody to blame but yourself for leaving it there.

You booby trap one and somebody gets hurt, a LEO or an attorney or both are gonna want to talk with you. Count on that.

On the other hand, why would anybody destroy or steal something that doesn't belong to them? Then again why do people shoot road signs? I don't know.

My point is that idiots abound on both sides and that will eventually cost all of us in the form of more restrictions and unintended consequences. You guys are just inviting trouble.

Wade
www.HardcoreOutdoor.com
 
I parked my 4 wheeler off the side of a trail on strawberry ridge to hike a canyon. When I came back all 4 tires were slashed and all of my gear stolen. You talk about a cheap 200$ dollar camera. They got my scope, Extra long tripod, Emergancy tools and gear,and A 200 dollar back pack that was hid down the trail in the direction I went. They even took our lunch....
 
It must be the fish and game taking them so you dont have proof of the wolves that are living there.......:)
 

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