I've had numerous cameras bitten, clawed tore off trees by bears. A couple ha have been completely destroyed. Most of the time is young bears that mess with my cameras
We baited for black bears years ago in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan . We were gone a few days and so I was walking into the bait area I seen one of my cameras was missing . I thought somebody stole it but after 35 min. Of hunting looking for a green camera I spotted the black strap sticking out of some leaves . I grabbed it to see it covered in bite Mark's . What a trophy I was thinking !! I still have the same camera it runs on 35mm film so you know its age !!
By the way I took the film in and have some cool pictures of his mouth / teeth !! It must have been a hell of a night at the bait stand there was one picture of a bear looking at a Wolf in the back ground ! Oh that's when Michigan didn't have wolves ...ya Right ..lol