Two of my buddies were busted last week for spot lighting...but here is story. The three of us were camped out on property owned by one these two friends, this is land that we hunt every year. I had to go to work or I'd be involved in this also. Late monday evening buddy
#1 shoots a nice buck within legal hunting hours. Buck takes off and makes it into some dence brush. Buddy #2 hears shot and comes to see what #1 had shot. They decide to give deer a little time to lay up before start searching for him. When they do start looking, they realize the deer went farther than expected. It is beginning to get dark and they continue to trail the deer. One of them have a flash light and use it to trail the deer,all the time finding good blood and locations where deer had laid down. Some where in this process,they are hailed and told to put down weapons. Gamewarden is there. All are legal and carry proper ID. Warden charges them with spotlighting. No amount of talk could convince him otherwise. They are hauled off to jail, weapons confiscated. I get the call to come bail them out. Waiting on a court date. We can not believe this is happening. They have talked with lawyer but they should never have been put in this position, Its a huge pile of crap!!! Lawyer says it would all be easier to just pay fines, several 100$ each, but it would be on their records. What the heck do you do?