Hey Trevor, I do the same as Woody does but only with thicker bands of black marker. I have also covered the entire white lens with black marker. Any amount of black marker helps out and helps conceal it better. Even with the whole lens blacked out you can still easily see the red LED glow inside for the walk test. Same can't be said with the solid black HPWA lens that you buy that way. The flat Fresno lens works great but doesn't have the same detection width as the HPWA lens, that's all.

Not that I deserved it but it was my fault that the thief saw my camera. It was out in plain sight because a Bear had knocked off the moss that I had draped over it and I never replaced the moss the day before when I last checked it. The thief walked over a barricade to keep people out and walked along a Bear trail next to a Salmon bearing stream to find it. The strange thing is that I also had a Browning cam 3 ft. beside it and it had moss draped over it and the thief never saw that cam because of it. I've been way too complacent lately, both with my wildlife encounter last week and theft this week. Lesson learned the hard way.

Gary, I take all that onboard. You may have read earlier this week l had a camera turned off that worried me as it was a brand new build and l did not have it in one of my usual lock boxes. I had three other cameras in the area l went and retreived them. I saw a utube clip about camouflage on cameras it was brilliant l will try and find it and post the link. Standby as it is worth looking at.

I know the best deterrent against theft it to make your camera as invisible as you can by camouflaging.

On The Blue Special – Tbass had some mothwing/gray hpwa. You might PM him to see if he has any left. I purchased a few from him and they work great for me and they do not show up like the white one’s do. Here is a link to the sale and a photo of them.
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With the need more so now than before, I find it necessary to think more about camouflaging our cams. I can do a reasonable job if l spend some time making it/them blend in so both the game shy animals and the two legged thieves can't see it/them. Now my question is how do you hide a near white, round, bordering on spherical HPWA fresnel? The human eye picks up on anything round quicker than any other shape. I know if the fresnel is black, the control boards thinks it is night 24 hours. Is the answer paint the fresnel with a wash of a light brown or green? Commercial cams usually have brown coloured square cut curved fresnels. I can't recall ever seeing a near white coloured one. I know Gary (Snapshot Sniper) sells a flat long range fresnel, maybe this is the answer? I know Gary (westcocanuck2) lost one of his S600's this week, I can't help but wonder did the thief see the round near white fresnel sticking out like a beacon? I recently read a post about a micro build and yes it was tiny, so tiny that the fresnel stuck out like a sore thumb so much so that a comment was posted describing the HPWA as looking like the Hubble space telescope. Any suggestions, thoughts, comments, appreciated.