Blind and camera stolen

My 16' stand is hanging with the same chains we use to hold our backhoes down on our floats at work. It's been up 2 seasons now and has gone from olive green to almost grey but it's still there. Last year some one was driving an atv across the neighbours property right into ours to trap beaver and coyote and I figured it was gone. But low and behold chain and master locks all still intact. This year the neighbour was (mad) #####ing that (we) were letting someone trap our property and that they had stolen a few of his stands and run over his baby pine trees. Come snow fall there was atv tracks all up and down the property line, we don't have atvs, his connibears or time for his BS! It's hard to find good neighbours
 
Unfortunately the low life folks win every time.

Give them a lickin, you loose in court and still have no gear and loose your RPAL/PAL.

After that they go and vandalize more of your property in retaliation.

We all know what we would like to do but a) it has repercussions and b) I'd get my ass kicked.
 
This really sucks. It would be nice to hunt and live on crown land.

Kelly Timoffee said:
Unfortunately the low life folks win every time.

Give them a lickin, you loose in court and still have no gear and loose your RPAL/PAL.

After that they go and vandalize more of your property in retaliation.

We all know what we would like to do but a) it has repercussions and b) I'd get my ass kicked.
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Perhaps I am more careful when I hunt on crown land because I have yet to have any lost stands or cameras while doing so on crown land. I have had a stand and strap on ladder stolen on private land and had a weird old couple cover my camera with their coats so they would not show up on the camera while walking their dog on a dike that cut thru the land I was hunting on! The camera was set for 3 pic burst so it recorded everything they did, which made me laugh!
 
Home3 said:
One solution is to go with a $99 stand and a $49 trail cam. In the black market trade, and being used, they won't fetch enough money to pay for the crook's gas money.
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Yeah, but then I get lousy pics and a shaky perch. Not many $99 stands hold two people. Also, the stand was 10yrs old, wasn't worth $99 on the market when it got stolen, but it was to me.
 
There are Cams that send photos to an alternate location ..... my bud had 2 overlooking his camp. Thieves broke in took some stuff , but made more of a mess then anything else ... but outside they also stole the cam he had overlooking his gate and the one he had overlooking his camp ........ Little did they know that their pictures were saved on a couple of little oval shaped pods ... one was on his shed and the other was inside his camp. I'll ask him what brand they were
 
Crowca2 said:
You always take a chance when leaving your stands or camera. I can find four or five cameras and ten stands if I was the thieving type. #### happens there are low life's everywhere.
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Very definitely THIS. Amazing how many naive people out there, who make it possible for Low Lifes to do their thing.

Grizz
 
On crown land you take your chances with leaving personal property behind but on privite land thats a different story, The trail camera's I have, use a cell conection that sends you a picture the same time it takes it, I would get a picture of the guys stealing it,
 
Grock-co said:
On crown land you take your chances with leaving personal property behind but on privite land thats a different story, The trail camera's I have, use a cell conection that sends you a picture the same time it takes it, I would get a picture of the guys stealing it,
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Private land helps, but isn't a sure thing. I lost a couple of canoes from our little spring-fed lake this year. It is completely surrounded by private land owned by two of us, and the bush is functionally inpenetrible to all but rabbits and squirrels. Still, someone found them and my chainsawed trail and stole both of them. A remote trail cam might help if there was a repeat performance. I've been told that a Claymore is a bad idea.

A friend lost a trail cam this year, and gained a ground blind, feeder and camera from someone who set up on posted private land. Exactly the same set-up as he/she/it lost last year when it was found on a neighbouring posted property.
 
Grock-co said:
On crown land you take your chances with leaving personal property behind but on privite land thats a different story, The trail camera's I have, use a cell conection that sends you a picture the same time it takes it, I would get a picture of the guys stealing it,
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Who makes them?
 
Been there, it hurts especially in middle of the hunting season.

Ours was taken from private property just north of you in Shellbourne.

Now I put multiple cameras each picturing other one and so on.

We have some people coming over to our property on dirt bikes but they
have helmets on. I might post there pics some day on CGN.
 
Kelly Timoffee said:
Unfortunately the low life folks win every time.

Give them a lickin, you loose in court and still have no gear and loose your RPAL/PAL.

After that they go and vandalize more of your property in retaliation.

We all know what we would like to do but a) it has repercussions and b) I'd get my ass kicked.
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It helps if the victim has some "shady" friends to "help him out" in a time of need. And you are right, we can say what we would "want" to do, but most wouldnt for 2 reasons, the outcome would physically be bad for them, or they know the BS downside for handling things with a thief the rough way and opt not to lose EVERYTHING, which again brings me back to my point about having "shady" buddies ;)
 
rubberdown said:
but most wouldnt for 2 reasons, the outcome would physically be bad for them, or they know the BS downside for handling things with a thief the rough way and opt not to lose EVERYTHING...
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So you are suggesting that we all duck and let it go? In remote areas which are not accessible to non locals, it is surprisingly easy to figure out who the culprit(s) is and where he lives. In my younger years, I watched and learned from my older peers how to handle local crooks on their own doorsteps. It always worked.
 
Home3 said:
So you are suggesting that we all duck and let it go? In remote areas which are not accessible to non locals, it is surprisingly easy to figure out who the culprit(s) is and where he lives. In my younger years, I watched and learned from my older peers how to handle local crooks on their own doorsteps. It always worked.
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No not at all, I know I wouldnt let it go, but I also wouldnt get arrested in the process of getting my stuff back if I knew who had it. Not everyone is 270 pounds and scary looking like I am and some have never thrown a punch, so they would be more likely to NOT get into a physical altercation, and some MAY be big scary bad ass looking people that you dont want to mess with and be smart enough to NOT put someone in the ER and risk an arrest record. IF and its a BIG IF, if I had my stuff stolen and found out who it was, "I" would go pay them a calm visit, if that didnt work, I would let them know I was staying there until the police arrived to assist me in getting back my stolen property. I would also never forget who they were and at some point, they would be sorry for their actions ;)
 
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