Bears love the smell and the rubber on some cameras they pretty much ate one of my brothers cams. I have 5 or 6 Camera with no bear troubles I do spray them with scent away also. I had a elk rubbing on my camera this year his muddy antler marks are still all over the camera.

My stealthcams work great until it’s cold I think it’s the battery even with 8 new batteries it’s still slow to wake up and take pics. I will try next fall with lithium I’m going to get the pics and take down my last camera tonight will see what we got. I love trail cameras really fun gets ya out there