Trail Camera SEcurity

[DanO]

I'm trying to decide whether I should secure my bear box with lag bolts and then lock it or a python cable? Not sure as to which approach is more secure. How tough is it to cut the little lock used with the box once you lag bolt it? Do python cables freeze up, making the opening of the bear box difficult?

[MikePal]

All you need to do is use locks that prevent cutting with/by bolt cutters..like this one..There are ones even tighter in the throat so it's impossible to get bolt jaws around the lock shank.

The size of the bolt cutters needed to cut this shank would make them to big to work.

[topher]

All you need to do is use locks that prevent cutting with/by bolt cutters..like this one..There are ones even tighter in the throat so it's impossible to get bolt jaws around the lock shank.

The size of the bolt cutters needed to cut this shank would make them to big to work.

Dont ask me how i know.. but I have yet to find a padlock that a good pipe wrench cant open

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[JBen]

Suspect it would take an awful lot of time and effort if its possible to break these style of locks. Have a few with the narrow throats and they are robust. If someone wants something bad enough, theres no stopping them short of putting bars on our windows, steel doors around the house, sinking steel fence post ( tree that thiick would take but moments with a small chain saw).......

Shame though theres almost as much $ (game cam dependant) used to secure something, than the something is worth.
2 X Python
1 Gear box
1 robust lock

what a world we live in that people have to spend north of $100, to secure soemthing worth just north of $100.

Like everyone I used to worry about it a fair bit, then realized "its not worth the worry" or aggravation. My Browning while expensive that first year, is now some years old. Ive gotten my money worth. Im very careful about where, and take some basic precautions (mainly thinking kids with no tools)....

[DanO]

jben . You're right about the additional cost but the first time you don't make it difficult in my area it'll walk for sure. I don't roll well with somebody stealing my stuff I found out. I thought I could blow it off but it didn't happen. I'm still pissed a year later.
So I either don't put cameras out or I secure them as well as I can.

[JBen]

More a commentary on society and the lack of respect for other peoples property these days.That decent folk are having to spend $100 to protect $100 worth of stuff....

I like the Browning Elites, for me they've been fairly reliable, false triggers aren't "too bad" (normally wind driven) and the battery life is superb. But jeez, for what they do really.....By that I mean...I already know there are deer there and I can normally tell when they are active and not....thats a lot of $

Used to use Python cable and heavier locks so no-one would steel the card or batteries if not the unit itself. Used to "bury" them, hide them amongst dead fall.....everyone walks trails, human or game...the path of least resistance....Not many go into deadfalls where twisted ankles...

Then one day just kind asked myself..Here I am jumping through hoops and I know if it is stolen my blood pressure will go up.
Isn't this supposed be a way for me to bleed stress, decompress and have fun
?

These days if I can't hide it in a dead fall, I will use the python but thats it. If I lose it, not going to allow myself to worry about it.

[kickingfrog]

The type of person who would steal another person's camera would have no issues cutting a tree down to do it.

[dean.f]

The type of person who would steal another person's camera would have no issues cutting a tree down to do it.

Or bringing a battery angle grinder.

[Deer Wrastler]

too bad people have no respect. My buddy put a trail cam up around sauble beach and 2 hunters walked by it and waved. Didnt steal it which was nice.

If I hunted public land I would prob opt out of a trail cam for the above reasons. Its just not worth the hassle and risk. Hunt good sign areas and a camera isn't needed. In the absence of a camera its likely more deer will show up anyways.

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[MikePal]

In the absence of a camera its likely more deer will show up anyways.

But then you'll never know...