In my experience the younger the game warden, the more likely he or she is to be a jerk. But not always of course. I've met some I really liked, and some I thought were real you-know-whats. Have not been checked in several years, but last year just missed getting checked. He checked everyone in camp, but not me up in my tree stand 100 yards away. (I was fine anyway). From what everybody said he was decent.

In my younger day, I was once stopped at my car by 2 game wardens who gave me a hard time about getting back to my car late. Now it's about a 1/2 hour walk to my spot during daylight in a scent-minded path. They proceeded to tell me that I had to be out of the woods when legal shooting time was over. NY legal shooting timeends atsunset. Are you kidding me? Mostly I just gave them a lot of yes sirs, ok sirs, I could tell they were trying to provoke me. They did not fine me at all, just gave me a hard time. Turns out one of the neighbors had reported somebody in the area poaching deer. Wasn't me of course, but left a sour taste in my mouth over game wardens for a while.