LoessHillsArcher
PMA Member
Holy cow, that is just down right nuts!
What a terrible deal. Them only smashing the cellular camera really makes you wonder how much these scum bags truly knew about your farms and the way the land laid. Hope you find them!!!
Sounds like you have good relationship with your neighbors, but with how well they knew your farm and taking things in a timely manor that makes a guy wonder how many times they've been on your property before. Have you gotten the same trespasser multiple times on camera or caught one personally?!? Those would be the guys id start questioning. Take some massive balls to drive into a farm and take those large items unless they knew they had no chance of getting caught.
I am confident that the thieves know the lay of the land very well. A silver lining of this is that our already strong neighbor connections have been made even stronger as we all are working together to nab these guys now.
Our strong feeling is that they are local and that they make a sweep or two during shed season and/or are affiliated with a local group that runs hounds for coyotes. That is as much detail on that as I would prefer to provide publicly at this time.
I agree, check CL for blinds for sale, spread the word on FB, etc. I'm sure you already are, but I'd also start work on camouflaging trail cams better too. I've always hunted public so I go to pretty great lengths to camouflage my cams with blowdowns and brush, etc. It's a huge pain every time you go to check them, but it's the price you pay not to have them stolen sometimes. Keep us posted when you catch the low lifes!Good luck, and get social media involved. Not sure if you Facebook or not, but posting on there, good chance a lot of ppl will see the post. Only a matter of time before pieces get out together.
I like the way you guys think! There are definitely other steps being taken now to identify the culprits. I really hope that we catch them soon as I would LOVE to describe to you how we arrived at the timing of the theft late last Thursday night. There are certain details that we are not releasing publicly at this time, but will once they are caught. I will say that I like our chances here.