RE: Has anyone ever seen a game warden in the woods, or...
 

like some have said i' ve had them park behind my truck wait for me to exit the woods usually around gun season since i hunt a archery only area.all have been real friendly they check my tags,license and make sure i' m not hunting with a firearm.have seen them walk the trails around the area but not in the woods they use binoculars. just doing their job.

RE: Has anyone ever seen a game warden in the woods, or...
 

Once, hunting on the Marine base at Quantico, I had just unloaded my slug gun as I was walking out of the woods. I put my slugs on the dashboard of my truck when the game warden drove by and stopped. He saw the three slugs sitting on my dash and said " 3 slugs, thats good. Mind if I see your gun?" He took my gun and checked that it was plugged. He was satisfied all was legal, and said he liked my gun. We talked for a few, then he took off. Didn' t check my tags/license, just wanted to see if the gun was legal.

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I' ve only meet up with the game warden once in the woods.I was going sucker spearing with my bow.I was driving down an old railroad grade to get to a river.He stopped me and said I shouldn' t be on the grade it was for ATV' s only than he looked in the back of my truck and saw my bow wasn' t in a case.He told me he could write me up for both offenses,but he never did.I asked him where all the suckers where and he told me the name of a lake where the suckers where boiling.I went where he told me to go and shot alot of suckers.To this day that' s the only place I take my bow to shoot suckers.He was a nice guy.

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Just this past summer my wife And I had our 2 sons at a campground on a lake, and we were down on the dock fishing, ( we didnt have licenses) she was helping her son (age 5) and I was helping my son (age 10). There was a ton of people on the dock fishing and I didnt want my son to hook someone when he was casting, so I casted his line out for him and then handed him his pole. Not 30 seconds later, game warden pulls up to the dock in a boat, checking licenses. I told him that we didnt have one and that the only ones fishing were the kids. He sais to me, I just saw you cast his line out, and then hand him the pole. So I told him that I was just helping him so he wouldnt hook someone. He tells me that I cant even cast it for him unless I have a license ( I honestly didnt know that), but he was real cool about it, just made his point and left without giving any citations. You learn something new every day.

RE: Has anyone ever seen a game warden in the woods, or...
 

I' ve been checked by one warden while hunting. I was walking a logging road out of the woods when I saw a guy stand up, and shine a flashlight in my face. I didn' t know what to think at first, but then he said something about being a DNR officer. It was probably 30-40 minutes after shooting light(had to remove stand, wait for dad, and walk out of the woods a few hundred yards). He asked me several times how far back into the woods we were and what legal shooting hours were. I knew what the hours were, and my watch read the same time as his. He simply couldn' t bust me because I didn' t have an arrow on the string.
It was the last week or so of late season, and he said he just wanted to make sure. He explained that at this time of year some guys like to stretch the shooting hours a little if they haven' t filled any tags yet during the year.
He also checked my backtag and everything out too, just routine I suppose.

This officer did seem like he was trying to pinch me for something I didn' t do, but overall he seemed like a pretty decent guy. He walked the rest of the way out with us, and we talked a little about the year' s deer harvest and so on.

peashooter

RE: Has anyone ever seen a game warden in the woods, or...
 

i have seen the warden in madison county ohio several times. he is the only agent for whole county and i see him about every day of gun season. go figure. i dont have anything to hide i abide by the laws and regulation. he has driven his truck threw corn fields to check on guys standing in fence rows and has walked right into the woods to check for permission slips and licenses. he is not very friendly and is kind of a jerk. once he checked several of us out before we went into area to hunt you know we had guns in cab making sure they weren' t loaded and the whole bit. then 2 hour later ask for licenses and permission again . same trucks nothing different just wanted to bug us a little .

RE: Has anyone ever seen a game warden in the woods, or...
 

been checked several times in maryland, but only when fishing,
also been checked in delaware when fishing
never been checked when hunting,
i guess they think you can' t hurt them with a fishing pole,
during hunting season everyone has a gun, not a good thought

RE: Has anyone ever seen a game warden in the woods, or...
 

We were on game land when my buddy was in his stand and shot a nice 8pt buck, the game warden walked to his stand and asked him how he was doing. This was about 5 min after the shot, then he walked to the deer and said nice job, let me see your license. So my buddy showed them to him and he left. He decided to drag the deer out himself and when he got to the truck the warden was still there and asked to see his license again. When my buddy showed them to him he said, partner you didn' t punch your tag and I' m going to write you a ticket. It cost my buddy $150.00 for this guy being an A-hole. I know he somewhat did wrong by not punching his tag, but his nerves were tore up and he was excited. This warden knew he was hunting legally but still ' harassed' him.

He did say that 8-point was worth the $150 bucks though!:)

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I have only ever seen two wardens that were not on the road checking. But these two were thorough!

Unit # 17 in the Selway-Bitterroots. 21 miles from the nearest thing you could even consider a road. Nice guys, but they sure did check us out.