My hunting partner is the Sheriff and between us and his investigator, we could not find out who did it.
This summer my friend the Sheriff and I built a "Penthouse " blind 12ft up in some trees, We put up No Trepassing/No hunting signs every 20ft around the perimeter of the 50 + acres. We hung a Moultrie feeder high on a rope between the top of the blind and a tree, set up a decoy camera and put up two clandestine cameras in trees. We secured a brand new Bushnell Trophy camera in a security box high up on the wall of the Penthouse. We had a two-piece tree stand ladder fasten to a big maple with coated cable and a harden padlock, that we used to get up into the Penthhouse to lower the feeder for filling.
Everything was fine until this morning when we went to fill the feeder.
The chain and lock on the gate was cut off and gone. The decoy camera was gone , the cable was cut and the ladder was gone, the security box lag bolted to the wall of the penthouse was ripped out.
We got several pictures of the a$$hole but he was wearing a pullover ski mask and a black hoody; so we can't see his face.
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Needless to say we are extremely pi$$ed off.
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It's been raining since yesterday early morning so all tracks were gone.
Argh!! I am livid!
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Sure ruins my season without it even starting!
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