Saw this one yesterday while stillhunting. I came up from behind didn't get caught on it. Waved my hand in front of it so he knows it was seen. Maybe he'll be surprised it's still there.

I leave them alone.

"'Xcuse me while I whip this out." (Woman screaming in background)

Lots of people have pics of me tracking n still hunting is what it is. My buddy got a pic of me scouting in a place we didn’t realize we both hunt. Lol

Just smile and keep going.

Moon ‘em!!!!

Either that or keep several disguises in your pack and walk past it a whole bunch of times so that the guy who put it out will think the Whole Wide World is hunting that spot…..

;)

"'Xcuse me while I whip this out." (Woman screaming in background)

Yeah, I just hope I haven't been caught on one taking a whiz; but chances are, I've probably been caught somewhere. ;)

I leave it alone. I have only seen one in the woods.

I smile and wave and keep going.

I hunt on my land so the cameras are mine and my son in laws. If I I encounter cameras that aren’t ours—-they het destroyed.

I see them occasionally. I always wave. I caught three hunters on mine this. One clearly saw the camera. One didn't. The third one didn’t see it nor did he seem to realize that he was walking a trail about five minutes behind a 5X5 bull. :)

I let them alone, they aren't mine.

I do a dance in front of it.

Dog found 3

He sniffed Theo then lifted his leg on them

Yeah they got marked

I don't like the feeling of always being recorded in town. Feels like an invasion of everyone's right to privacy. I REALLY don't appreciate being recorded in the outdoors.

When I was growing up, everyone had strong feelings about privacy, and for the most part, respected it. No one was afraid to let you know exactly what they thought, if you crossed the line. Today, people don't respect much of anything.

Take a stick and make a scrape 10 yards behind it.

I sell them on eBay and after a few I buy some arrows…

Whose land is it?

I just keep walking.

It was on private land just off the back of a small state forest plot in timber between two swamps (you can see the opening in the trees in the background). The state land is roughly 1/2 mile x 1/2 mile. North of the state forest is posted but W and S of it isn't and it borders a road to the E. The woods runs about another 1/2 mile or so S to a small farm and about a 1/4 mile W to a residential road.

If its public land I wouldnt do anything. Why would you?

If you knew he had a sense of humor you could moon him.

While hunting in Nebraska on public hunting and an hour before daylight, I came across a camera on the tree I had planned on hunting in. I had driven 25 miles to hunt from a tree that I had hunted in past years. It was a pretty comfortable tree to hunt without a tree stand. So there I was, trees were scarce, no tree stand. It was early in season and at that time the cameras would flash to take a night picture. It hadn't gone off so I thought it was probably from last year and the batteries dead. I decided to go ahead and climb the tree and hunt. The camera made it kind of hard to get up the tree and my foot slipped and went in front of the camera and it flashed. Struggling to get up the tree and not step on the camera, my foot went across the camera two more time and the camera took a picture both times. Saw no deer that morning but often wondered what the camera owner thought of three pictures of someone's boot.

Tea bag them...

I don't like cameras

If I find a camera where I hunt at it is because I left it their or somebody is fixxin to be missing theirs and possibly in trouble with Mr gamewarden.

It was on my property, I stepped in front and gave the unversal sign. It was gone several days later

I’d leave it alone unless it was on my proprty

If you see it first, sneak around it and put your Pennywise mask on, and then jump in front of it to take the picture!

I leave them be. Had one stolen a few years back, that sucks. Do unto others...

I leave it alone, as I would like others to do with mine.

I walk on by. I found one sitting up on the bare ground at a corner of a field. All I had to do was pick it up and walk away. I left it alone.

Earlier I posted about my own land. If I am on public or another persons land where I have permission to be and see a game camera(s)—I leave it alone and do not approach it. I respect other people’s property and no right to touch things that do not belong to me.

Wish I had a Bigfoot costume.

Clear the card and hope they think there are no deer in the area, lol.

Would NEVER take one in season but in Michigan anything left in the woods after a certain date in January is considered trash and an offense that could get you a ticket. Cameras, stands, reflective tacks and colored tape is removed. Per my CO.

This is usually done at the end of March when the weather gets better and the owners have had a chance to reclaim them.

I don't hunt pubic, so IF there is a camera on a property is it either mine or my boss who owns the property. If it does not belong to either of us, we set a camera to see who comes and checks it. Occasionally I can't help myself and I take a set of antlers and do my best impersonation of a deer spotting itself in the lens. :-) My boss has a good sense of humor, mostly. Still waiting on one of those pics to end up at the company Christmas dinner. The way of the world today, I hope to never have to hunt public land in East Texas. I feel like there are WAY to many folks out there and I have to assume most have no business being allowed a rubber knife, much less a firearm. Be safe out there everybody.

-Bones

Here in Missouri, it's illegal to set cameras on public land or leave pop-up blinds out overnight. I have come across a few and just keep on walking.

Walk up from behind and pass one of my rattling antlers past the camera a few times.

Everyone deserves a little hope

I don't hunt public so their my own, no matter who put them there.

If it’s on my private property I’m taking it

There should be no cameras on public lands, just my opinion.

"There should be no cameras on public lands, just my opinion"

In some ways I agree, but it doesn't stand the sniff test. If your on public land and you see someone else, is that illegal? Can you take someones picture on a public street?

Fact is you have no right to privacy when your out in the public, be it forest, lake, or city highway.

I agree. Not on public land. I see them all the time and leave them alone. Usually I see them and try to avoid getting my pic take.

I tell my gf to act like she doesn’t know me in case my wife sees the pic. Oh yea I don’t have to do that no more, I’m divorced.

If it is not mine I don't touch it and steer clear.

Big brother is watching... even in the woods:)

Mark it for later come back in bigfoot costume After dark.

I didn't read this thread but if it's on my place it comes home with me.

Public lands I like to come back wearing a hoodie and carrying a shovel and a rolled up piece of carpet:)

My father in law owned a farm and I was allowed to hunt there for decades, but when he died ownership went to my brother in law. He said I could hunt but check in with with his son in law, who had stands up and cameras for him and his buddy. So I called him and we talked over exactly where I could put up a stand. So I put it up and a cell phone cam was there so I smiled for the camera. It was the buddy's cam and he threw a fit. So after getting yelled at I never went back.

I walk around it.

I was bowhunting turkey on a property on which I had permission,when the property was sold I moved my ground blind to overlook a trail on adjoining crown..public land, one day I found a note at my blind informing me that I was on private property and suggested that it might be somewhat dangerous to keep hunting there.!! Not only that they had set up a trail cam facing my blind. Well I went home and got some crazy glue, went back and removed the chip from the camera and put a blob of glue on it and reinserted it . Codjigger

I give them a wave and leave them alone.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. RKK

Smile?

Codjigger

I like that one.

Before you decide to do something criminal on land you do not own, you might want to consider the possibility that the owner may have permission to be there just like you do. And game-cams are cheap, lots of folks put multiple cams at different angles to narrow domn which trails are being used. Maybe you overlooked another one...and now the owner can prove you're a thief/vandal.

Walk by leave it alone.

I just walk by it! I usually find more near my residence on shed hunts than where I hunt.

A twist here, what if a camera is on National Wildlife Refuge which forbids cameras but allows hunting? Baiting is also illegal on the Refuge. I almost always find camera pointing at a bait pile...

I don't touch, just wave. 99% time I'm hunting lease property. I know of wildlife offers setting some for surveillance. I know of 2 landowners using the cell cameras for security surveillance.

I just leave them alone just like I hope they do when they see my cameras.

I spotted a flash at dusk 4 miles up a mountain trail in Washington, looked uphill and there was a camera strapped to a tree. I walked up and looked, and it said WDFW research (cougar study). I waved and left it alone. I doubt they ever thought they'd get a human on it...very remote. I saw another one a couple weeks ago in a woodlot behind my house...neighbor put it there, but I came in from behind it so I was not captured. He wouldnt have known who it was with the leafy facemask I wear, and he wouldnt care anyway. I have seen many others some of which I know I was filmed, and others not. I dont bother them, i wouldnt want anyone messing with mine.

If you ever find a camera of mine in the woods you have my permission to smash it to pieces.

When ever I find a camera on public land I leave it alone.Wouldnt dream of taking it. I have never had a camera stolen.(knock on wood).I hate thieves.

I leave it alone and find a new area.

Leaving it alone makes sense. Going and finding a totally different area, not so much.

If it’s public property, then neither you nor anyone else should have any expectation of having it all to yourself. So if putting out cameras can become a form of posting public property as private? To hell with it. It’s like the guys here who leave stands up Year after year after year; without getting right up under it and inspecting it for safety you can’t tell if it’s being used or not, but when you spend an entire day and you’re never out of sight of at least a half a dozen stands at a given time… You’re going to have to deal with what’s out there .

I was hunting with an attractive female friend about 5 years ago. We came across a cam, off trail in the middle nowhere. I begged her to flash the camera. She wouldn't. So we both just waved and smiled at the camera.

Leave them alone!

Peco2 - Can I give her gps coordinates of my cameras?

I remember those flash film cameras would sceer the dookie out of you if you walked by one in the dark.

I keep my hands off stuff that isn't mine but I really don't like the idea of cameras on public land. I really shouldn't be photographed without my permission.

Private businesses and homes use cameras for security. The operative word being "private". The government uses things like traffic cameras...government. The private stuff is none of my business and the government makes a living doing things that I don't like.

Trail cameras on public property are completely different. This is another private individual and I hope he chokes on his stinking camera.

What does bother me are the cameras at traffic signals and everywhere I turn in public.

I wave. what you gona do? The best one was me tracking a deer in the dark, dark. This was back in the flash camera times. Walking along on the blood trail with my flashlight and at one point I looked up just in time for someones camera flash about 6' away. I thought the world ended, everything went black/bright when it blinded me. Wow!!! Always thought that would have been quite the picture.

“I thought the world ended, everything went black/bright when it blinded me.”

And people wonder why it is that deer have learned to avoid cameras!

I take them down and sell them at yard sales because if I see one it is on my private property. I do leave a note for whoever left it inviting them to stop by the house and get it back, no takers so far.

PECO, she's got more class than you...

if i spot them before i'm on candid camera, and i'm carrying my rattling antlers, i'd just barely stick an antler out in front of it... i do much the same with a turkey gobbler foot i put on a stirring stick in case i find some bare dirt/mud along a trail...

I wave leave it alone but I would never pull the chip and erase my picture (or would i ???) :^)

There are only 3 other hunters on the property that I hunt, and nobody uses cameras, so all found cameras and stands go to the property owner's barn. Many of the cameras have a test shot or two of the person who placed it.

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