6pt_elk_wannabe
06-08-2014, 08:03 PM
Okay so since this is my first post I know I have to post a joke.
Two hunters decide to go moose hunting in Northern BC. They hire an airplane to drop them off in a remote region. The pilot drops them off and tells them, "I`ll be back in one week. No more than one moose - got it?" One week passes, and the pilot returns. The hunters have two moose. The pilot says, "Hey, I told you guys no more than one moose." One of the hunters replies, "Look the pilot told us the same thing last year and we gave him a `big` tip to take both moose out." The three of them argue for several minutes more. The pilot gives up and agrees to take both moose. Well, they load up the moose and fire up the plane. The plane shudders and strains trying to take off. It finally gets the wheels off the ground 5 feet, 10 feet. Whoops! It runs out of runway and smashes into a tree. The two hunters, dazed and confused make there way out of the wreckage. One hunter looks at the other and says, "Where the heck are we?" The other looks around and replies, "About 200 yards further than we got last year!"
So now to the real story, just under a month ago I placed a trail camera up behind west Harrison. I've read a lot of the horror story's on here about people getting their cameras stolen. So to avoid this I found a somewhat secluded cut block (away from the main fsr's) and hiked to the very top and put the cam on a game trail in the timber about 50 yards from the cut block on a nice little bench. Just to get to the cam it was a 30 minute hike.
Now fast forward to today, we quad an hour and a half to find that where I placed the cam only a month ago was now freshly logged with a whole new road punched through. Still walked up and looked for it amongst the brush piles but didn't find it.
And did I mention this was my first experience with using a trail cam? lol
I guess that's the risk you take though so what can you do. Just wondering if anyone here has had the same experience as me or am I just unlucky haha.
Two hunters decide to go moose hunting in Northern BC. They hire an airplane to drop them off in a remote region. The pilot drops them off and tells them, "I`ll be back in one week. No more than one moose - got it?" One week passes, and the pilot returns. The hunters have two moose. The pilot says, "Hey, I told you guys no more than one moose." One of the hunters replies, "Look the pilot told us the same thing last year and we gave him a `big` tip to take both moose out." The three of them argue for several minutes more. The pilot gives up and agrees to take both moose. Well, they load up the moose and fire up the plane. The plane shudders and strains trying to take off. It finally gets the wheels off the ground 5 feet, 10 feet. Whoops! It runs out of runway and smashes into a tree. The two hunters, dazed and confused make there way out of the wreckage. One hunter looks at the other and says, "Where the heck are we?" The other looks around and replies, "About 200 yards further than we got last year!"
So now to the real story, just under a month ago I placed a trail camera up behind west Harrison. I've read a lot of the horror story's on here about people getting their cameras stolen. So to avoid this I found a somewhat secluded cut block (away from the main fsr's) and hiked to the very top and put the cam on a game trail in the timber about 50 yards from the cut block on a nice little bench. Just to get to the cam it was a 30 minute hike.
Now fast forward to today, we quad an hour and a half to find that where I placed the cam only a month ago was now freshly logged with a whole new road punched through. Still walked up and looked for it amongst the brush piles but didn't find it.
And did I mention this was my first experience with using a trail cam? lol
I guess that's the risk you take though so what can you do. Just wondering if anyone here has had the same experience as me or am I just unlucky haha.