r/tacticalgear • u/SodaRider1 • 2d ago

Securing perimeter woods

We’ve had several attempted/successful burglaries in our area, and our home was targeted last week. The bad guy came from the rear of our property over about 1/2 mile of woods/pasture (caught on trail cam). When approaching our home, he low crawled from woods to the home… not his first rodeo. None of them have been afraid of cameras… always wearing a full mask and hoodie. I need something in the woods behind our home to scare them off and alert us.

Thinking about some kind of tripwire / flashbang in the woods but I have to believe wildlife would set them off pretty quick. The strip of woods behind our home is roughly 200’ x 600’ but there’s a mowed path leading to the house that’s the first priority to arm.

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u/Silly-Swan-8642 2d ago

You can get remote audio motion sensors. Look for driveway alarms. My wife bought one and it has 4 channels and solar charging. It makes a tune or noise when tripped and sends alerts to our phones with the area that has the motion alert.

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u/TrainForHavoc 2d ago

I wouldn't recommend letting the bad guy know that you're on to them with a device that makes a tone when tripped. They'll just avoid that route next time. They've already proven persistence and are becoming more brazen and comfortable approaching OP's home. It would essentially be starting a race to who could be ready to do harm first between OP and the robber.

Never give up any advantage when it comes to defending yourself or your family.

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u/PearlButter 1d ago

Nah it’s like a web where you have a bunch of sensors and you have a central hub. The sensors are the things that detect motion and send the signal to the hub thingy which your either carry on you or store inside your house and it will ring/beep when a sensor detects motion and it will tell you which sensor detected motion (hopefully you have a map of where you placed these or written down somewhere).

The issue with these is that depending on what you get, the range that the sensor will reach the hub is generally limited to like 100 yards with the economical models and the sensor detection range is like ten yards depending on the settings you use. At the least you can put these around your house but for OP he won’t be able to detect anything that is 1/2 miles away, or at least not with the cheaper stuff.

The other issue is that depending on how dark the area is, at least with my driveway sensors, you may be able to pick out a red blink from the sensor when the thing detects movement. A person can spot it and either take note it’s there or literally take it and sabotage it.

Another thing is that this will also detect random animals or bushes/trees swaying depending on the sensitivity settings used.

I would recommend OP to seek out a long range model and hide them well or secure enough that it’ll be a pain in the ass to steal or sabotage.