Trail camera's and Bears.

Throw the factory woven cloth straps in the garbage and just use hay wire. Those straps have a lot of scent when new and also hold scent after being handled.
Also if the camera is new, wipe it down with isopropyl alcohol and just let it sit on the deck for a week or so
 
bearkilr said:
Throw the factory woven cloth straps in the garbage and just use hay wire. Those straps have a lot of scent when new and also hold scent after being handled.
Also if the camera is new, wipe it down with isopropyl alcohol and just let it sit on the deck for a week or so
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X's 2. Haywire is my go to. Easy to work with and you can really tighten down that camera.
 
As others have said... do your best to keep scent off the camera... but even pristine, bears are curious critters and even the odd smell of plastic can draw them to investigate, which often means CHEW. We lose several cameras a year, but just buy, cheap multi packs to.keep the cost down...

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I enclose all of my cameras in metal 'security' boxes, which I mount on trees with wood screws. The boxes are to protect the cameras from bears primarily. But I had a bull moose rub the very Poplar tree I had a trail camera in. Mangled the metal box, but it protected that camera.

I had a bear bite the lens hood off one of my cameras, even with the metal box.

As to bears, there's a Grizzly Signpost, where I hunt (actually a power pole) that I found a couple years back, and continue to watch, and the top claw marks on that power pole are at least 3' higher than I can reach, which is about 8' give or take, standing on toes I can reach even a bit over 8' so those claw marks were something like 11'-12' high.
Which is to say that you're going to have a hard time in grizzly country protecting your cameras by simply placing them 'high' up a tree.

When I hang my cameras I don't concern myself with trying to hide my scent. I'm more interested in getting the camera postioned to get the shots I'm hoping for, and also locating them where 2-legged creatures (hopefully) won't find them. The bears will find your cameras regardless...

I've actually had 1 camera video 2 guys field dressing an elk right in front of the camera, and obviously they had no idea it was there.

I've only had 1 incident where a fella most definitely found one of my cameras, but he was polite enough not to tamper with it or steal it. But I still moved it as soon as I knew it had been found.
 
Not my you tube upload, but there is very little one can do to stop a motivated and pizzed off bear.
Be it a Momma bear or an inquisitive bear.
I also get that this thread is all about minimizing the loss or damage of ones expensive trail cams.
Then there are those two legged scum who will either steel ones property or damage it for schitz and giggles.

 
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