have you guys ever gotten a ticket from the dnr for making a stupid mistake? like maybe you put your stand on private land when you thought it was public, or maybe you screwed up something with your tags? like for example one year my dad got a ticket when we were duck hunting because he didnt have his federal waterfowl stamp, thats the one that they give you right when you get your liscence, he actually had the one you have to order. just wondering if you guys had any interesting stories of something like this happening to you.

Last year I got a warning ticket for not wearing an orange hat while bow hunting. I think there was a special muzzle loader season in also. You had to wear the hat while moving.The odd thing was my 12 year-old step-son was tagging along with me (not hunting) and he did have an orange hat on. So the Game Warden just told us to switch hats and all would be OK.

Alright, so let the youngster's head be mistaken for a deer's instead?

"Who are a little wise, the best fools be."

Besides, if we have hunters in the forest that think deer wear blaze orange from the neck down at certain times of the year, we'reseriously in trouble as a species.

lmao!

I've done it ....twice, both of which were so stupid that it's almost funny, but not at the time. A few years ago, I got a ticket for having an uncased gun on my 4 wheeler, but let me explain. I had left my 4 wheeler inour bottom that morning and had met my dad up by the road with my gun and case and left my case in the truck, then after lunch walked back to the bottom to hunt again, then it started raining, hard, so I left on the 4 wheeler and was at the end of my driveway when i got stopped, ugh. Then the other time was even worse than that, I was at my buddies house who lived at a lake and we were going to go swimming but the whole cove was covered with moss , so we decided to remove the moss with a pole and big treble hook. we had a pretty good whole made in it with a big pile of moss on the bank when low and behold the law man pulled up in a boat, and asked for a fishing license and of course I hadn't got one yet. But in my defense we had a huge pile of moss, we were soaked from the waste down from wading out and pulling the moss, and had now fishing tackle around, what a jerk!!

The only time in 20+ years of hunting I have even seen a game warden happened about 12 years ago.
I went bow hunting in the morning in the public woods across from the 4 acres I lived on at the time.
I came out of the woods about 10:30 and walked to my house. I decided to change clothes,get my dog and shotgun and go hunt some pheasants a couple miles down the road.
I shot 2 roosters and headed back home to change back into deer hunting gear and go back to the woods.
I was almost home when I spotted a rooster under a pine tree just off the road.
I thought, this will make 3,the limit, so I stopped about 100 yards past the bird and got out my gun and dog.
As I walked back to the bird a Suburban came roaring down the gravel road. I stopped, thinking WTH?
He pulls up,skidding in the gravel,gets out and starts grilling me about what I am doing.
I tell him there is a rooster under the pine that is about 50 yards ahead.
He tells me to go ahead and go try for him so I did.
I missed!
I walk back and he then asks me to see my hunting lic. It dawns on me it is in my wallet, in my camo pants, back at my house.
I tell him I do not have it with me and he kind of gives me that,oh yeah look.
I then tell him the good news is that I live right there, pointing to my house.
He was really cool about it then.
He followed me back to my house, I went inside while he pet my dog.
I came out with my wallet and showed him my lic.
He did tell me he could still write me up as you are required to have your lic on you while hunting.

Turned out to be a nice guy. We talked about hunting for a while before he left.

I went back to the woods and shot a nice doe that afternoon.

2 birds,a doe and no ticket.
Pretty good day