With so many thefts that have occurred in our hunting woods I and others are quite nervous about leaving an expensive trail camera set up in the woods even with the security cable attached and the unit locked.
In the past I have attempted to somewhat disguise my camera by placing a few dead branches, limbs, etc. on each side but you have to be careful to keep all from in front of the camera lens and sensor. This may have helped but the camera was still very visible.
I had a new idea to help disguise it and that is to take a piece of leafy camo material and wrap it around the camera on the tree and cut a window in the material so the lens and sensor is not covered. This and a few limbs or branches on the sides may be a better way to hide the camera from any would be thief. My concern about this is when the material gets wet then the sun warms it up later causing a very humid condition that could permeate inside the camera housing and cause damage and failure. Not sure how likely this is though.
Also thought of maybe mounting the camera up in a tree facing it downward to get it out of sight but that would likely compromise its weather resistance qualities because they are designed to be mounted upright.
I think the cameras at greatest risk are the ones at easy to find locations such as feeders.
Just a few ideas to hopefully prevent theft and loss of our expensive toys.
Dave1
In the past I have attempted to somewhat disguise my camera by placing a few dead branches, limbs, etc. on each side but you have to be careful to keep all from in front of the camera lens and sensor. This may have helped but the camera was still very visible.
I had a new idea to help disguise it and that is to take a piece of leafy camo material and wrap it around the camera on the tree and cut a window in the material so the lens and sensor is not covered. This and a few limbs or branches on the sides may be a better way to hide the camera from any would be thief. My concern about this is when the material gets wet then the sun warms it up later causing a very humid condition that could permeate inside the camera housing and cause damage and failure. Not sure how likely this is though.
Also thought of maybe mounting the camera up in a tree facing it downward to get it out of sight but that would likely compromise its weather resistance qualities because they are designed to be mounted upright.
I think the cameras at greatest risk are the ones at easy to find locations such as feeders.
Just a few ideas to hopefully prevent theft and loss of our expensive toys.
Dave1