Am I Too Sensitive Here ?
It was Oct. 15 of this year. Opening day of antelope and deer gun season in my area. ( 12 miles NW of Kaycee WY)
I'm parked along my fence line, outside the truck, fixing a gate, not wearing hunting clothes, fencing pliers in hand. I'm about 1/3 mile off a county road.
Along the road comes a G&F pickup truck. It stops and the warden jumps out and trots toward my location. He gets there and asks if I have seen anyone hunting. (My land borders a big parcel of state land)
I haven't seen anyone. I tell him I haven't hunted this day but plan to later , higher up the mountain. There are no guns or other hunting stuff in my truck.
He wants to see my hunting license. I happen to have it and show it to him. He is very cordial and says thanks and departs.
What if I had no license? At the time of the contact I'm just a guy out mending fence. What difference does it make if I have a license or not?
Kind of like a police officer stopping a pedestrian and wanting to see a drivers license.
It sort of irritated me to be confronted on my own land and asked to show a permit for doing something I wasn't doing in the first place.
Am I wrong here?
Last edited by Bullcamp82834; 11-19-2013 at 08:15 AM.