Bears and Trail Cams
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#12
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: northern USA
Posts: 274
I've had two camera's taken by bear, one an IR and one a flash. I build my own bear boxes now to keep my camera's safe and I lock my camera's tot he tree as well. The first camera I thought someone stole, but now i think it was a bear(I never did find the camera) but the second camera was laying about 8 feet from the tree and I was able to salvage it with some epoxy to the outer casing. No good pictures of the bear that tried to eat the camera either, just it's ear right before it took it off the tree.
#14
Spike
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Midwest
Posts: 30
I didn't know bears eat cameras. This is good information. I really like the pictures, wish we could get some better one though. I did some research and it looks like many manufactures make security boxes for their cameras. Looks like Skypoint, Moultrie, and Covert II all make them. Anybody tried any of these? Would love a review or two.
#15
Typical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location:
Posts: 696
get a bunch of big branches and make a mess of them at the base of the tree you put the camera on. The odd curious bear won't bother it with this obstruction in the way.
I have a bear box on mine but I am told if they want to rip at bad enough the bear box will just rip off with it.
I have a bear box on mine but I am told if they want to rip at bad enough the bear box will just rip off with it.
#18
Spike
Join Date: May 2007
Location:
Posts: 29
We have baited for two years and have hundreds of pictures from our sites. The person that handles the trail camera must have clean hands(very important). Ours are simple flash cameras and without boxes and they have never been damaged. I have also watched bears at the site when the flash goes off and they don't even bother to look.
This has been my experience so far but that may change at any time.
This has been my experience so far but that may change at any time.
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We have baited for two years and have hundreds of pictures from our sites. The person that handles the trail camera must have clean hands(very important). Ours are simple flash cameras and without boxes and they have never been damaged. I have also watched bears at the site when the flash goes off and they don't even bother to look.
This has been my experience so far but that may change at any time.
This has been my experience so far but that may change at any time.
Last two years baiting haven't had any problems as I either check the camera before handling the bait or I bring along rubber gloves to handle the camera.
Enjoy the pictures, some of my best pictures and videos are of sows with their cubs playing around the bait.
Here's the "booner" I shot in 2008 who has just walked past the camera without a bother:
Last edited by W9ARcher; 09-11-2010 at 08:47 PM.