So this past week on the 16th we were gun hunting on our lease. Me and my buddy were hunting about 200yds from eachother. He shot at a doe that was alot farther than he thought and cleanly missed and checked to make sure. 5 mins after he shot i shot a big mature doe that ran about 60 yds and i saw go down in a corn feild. A few minutes later my buddy shot a doe and it ran right past him and he saw it go down in some thick stuff. This all happened jsut before dark, and we generally give deer time weither it be with gun or bow just to make sure. So we packed up and walked back to camp. Upon arriving back at camp a pickup comes flying in the drive and right up to us. It was the one and only dnr in the county. He gets out saying, heard alot of guns shots you guys get anything. To which me and my buddy said we both shot does. He asked if there tagged yet. We said no we just got down and headed to camp to change, give them time and the rest of the gang before we recover them. He replied, not gonna work. They have to be tagged immediatly. now alittle insight on this. Our neighbor down there is the biggest a@3hole ever and has been bragging about being buddies with the dnr all summer. And this guys phone was going off the hook with way more important stuff than randomly checking us out. so we believe he was doing a favor. So anyways he went back there with us to get them, and ended up writing us tickets for failure to immediatly tag them. He spent about an hour there trying to get anything he could on us but that was it. We dindt argue the ticket at the time since we didnt know better. but after talking to people it seems to be a load of bs, since we hadnt touch the deer, didnt gather them, didnt do anything with them. I was told that it is illegal to be in the woods with no tag, so if the case was this was our last tag and we went to the deer and tagged it we could get fined for having a gun in the woods without a tag. and the fact that we did not collect the deer we got out of the woods.

we were also told that we didnt have to take the dnr back there, we could have just said there back there and pointed and that it is his job to find out. obv we were just doing everythign to coraperate thinking we hadnt done anything wrong. But seeing this is a 180 dollar fine do we have a chance fighting it?