I need a self contained motion sensing security camera, in other words a game camera. To be installed in a concealed, remote outdoor location. How effective will they be without using the flash? Yes, I'm hunting two legged varmints.
Unless the area is decently lighted, I'd say it wouldn't have much of an effect. Perhaps something in infrared?
We got any posters that are in the London Police Department? They could probably point you in the right direction.
I picked up the cheapest infrared flash game camera I could find, if this thing gets seen and stolen, I don't want to be out big http://www.stealthcam.net/home_pg.html
The lack of a story may make it more interesting, in fact. Can't be incriminated if there's nothing incriminating on the internets!!
Okay, here we go... About three weekends ago I get a call that one of my dad's cattle has been hit on a local two lane road. The guy who hit the steer, we'll call him Billy, cause that's his name. First, about Billy. Billy is about mid 40-ish, ex con, been a bully since high school, aggressive nature, all round con artist, meth cooker, poacher, white trash jack of all trades. Oh, and he's six foot somethin, and was responsible for his dad's death a couple of years ago, a night that involved cussin, drinkin, gun play, and a "car crash". So he's standin on the side of the road waitin on me to come hash out hi totaled truck, at about 2200 hours. This ain't happenin, and I know what he wants anyway, he plans on some sort of extortion play. So I grab a flashlight, slip a Sig in my pocket and do what any self respecting country boy badass would do, I call the sheriff's department. They're annoyed with me of course, as usual, sorry if I don't want to stand on the side of a deserted road at night with the county neanderthal. Luckily all their deputies are busy, and the dispatch calls Highway Patrol. The trooper that high tails it to my aide? He went to high school with Aenea. Score. So anyways I show up, (Sig in pocket anyways) and am greeted with all sorts of aggressive questioning, which I reply with, "Troopers on his way Billy". You should have seen him deflate, he knows his little intimidation angle ain't gonna fly, so he goes and pouts in his truck. Trooper shows up, explains to Billy that Oklahoma law says that shit happens, ranchers aren't responsible for cattle getting out unless it can be proven that they are negligent in containing them. (we're standing by a six wire, Red Brand, four point barbed wire fence, they don't get better) so he's SOL. Here's the kicker, it turns out Billy is of course carrying no insurance, no registration, no paper work at all on his now totalled pickup, he just got it from a local dealer (another redneck mafioso kingpin). By bringing the law into it, I put the spotlight on Billy, and now the old man's insurance ain't payin shit. Fast forward to a couple of weeks later, at a piece of property I own a couple of miles from here. It lies on a remote little dirt road, where I found the obvious evidence of a major copper theft, (razor bladed wire insulation). Then a piles of trash. Then one morning a dumped fridge. Then the coup de grâce, I get a call a couple of days ago that I've got a row of hay bales burning along that same two lane road where the steer was hit. To be honest I'm not really surprised, this is his SOP, as well as others like him, that like to drive around in the country all night for no apparent reason other than shit like this. So anyways, I plan on installing a game camera to monitor my property, and the $5,000 worth of hay near the gate. That and a new spotlight, I just might do some midnight cruisin of my own.
Now I really want to come. I swear I won't shoot on sight. Know what you mean though. We've had trouble with the Native reserve a half mile from where my family lives for years now. Couple of them came into our yard a few years back, drunk and cussing like hell, so being a reasonable fellow, we got them pissed off enough that they got out of the car, and my little brother took the keys out of the ignition. Well, they were too drunk to do anything, and as such a danger to anyone out driving that day. We waited for the cops, who took them away and charged them with whatever they got charged with, and for a full year after that, bales got set on fire, and one time one of our calves was actually shot. Stay safe whatever you do. Sounds like ol' Billy has absolutely no respect for the law, so chances are it might not stop with just setting a few bales on fire and stealing some wire. I don't blame him for stealing the wire though. What? Its $3.70/lb. Just kidding.
Does OK believe in DAFFS? We were worried for a while when a local lowlife got shot on our property while out to tend to one of his little pot plots. One of the Club members, an older fellow, mistakenly thought him a turkey. Law agreed. Nothing came of it.
What are Oklahoma's laws on defense of property? Here, I can use deadly force to protect property (such as an automorbile) after dark and your hay bales would certainly constitute "property". If something similar happened at my old man's place, I could see him waiting out there overnight with a rifle.
I take it you have no legal recourse? For instance, what if the cops came and dusted that dumped fridge for prints? Either way, it sounds like Billy is fixin' to wind up face down in the dirt some night as the result of his misdeeds. I'm sure there are plenty of other property owners around having problems of their own with this piece of shit.
When I was working for the college, I dealt with these guys a lot: http://www.scdlink.com Good value, and just about anything you'd want in video surveillance tech. You might want to call them and see if they can't help with a solution to your problem.
I think the infared flash is your best bet. I would... possibly take some vacation time to sit out on your property with night vision equipment and a sniper rifle.
