Greg / MO

Some of these recent posts about game wardens got me thinking: Has anyone ever seen a game warden out in the woods walking around? Like, after they were already set up in their treestands?

I would think most of the conservation agents would be more prone to just waiting at people' s cars to check them, rather than messing up someone' s hunting by wandering around in the woods.

Just curious.

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ac00buck

saw two of them enter park property, looking for a man hunting on park land.

tabby

I had one come up to me while hunting woodchucks. And I have seen them driving down well roads from my stand, but never walking in the woods.

It seems to me that they drive around, and will come investigate if someone calls them. I have run into a few because of my neighbors calling, but I wasn' t doing anything wrong, but I am glad that my neighbors are keeping an eye on things.

still waitin

I' ve only been checked while hunting small game when I was a teenager ....... other than that, just checkpoints along roads ...........

badshotbob

Never in 24 years. (While hunting, fishing now, well let' s not go there)

A.K.A eastwood

way back in the good ol days i ran into a couple becasue the people i was with wernt very descret about how they were breaking the law. trout fishing one stopped to tell me i couldnt cast on the one side of a cable that ran overhead, it was a " fly fishing only" zone. and then opening day of arch this season i saw one parked on the side of the road. ive never seen one within 10 yards from the edge of the treeline going ino the woods. i honestly dont think they would have any reason to just go in and police the woods.

adams

I' ve only seen a warden in the woods once and that was when I was fishing. A couple of the lakes/ponds I fish are artificial baits only and the wardens tend to frequent them a lot. They are generally plesant. The only times I' ve seen them while hunting was once after a guy hunting near me shot a calf(moose) and turned himself in. There were wardens everywhere that day. The other time i was leaving the woods with two friends just at dark and while we where walking across a cut cornfied the warden pulled in and asked to see our tags and checked to make sure we were unloaded as it was after dark. I' ve had nothing but positive contacts with wardens. They usually come across as a tough guy at first but I probably would too knowing that everyone you have contact with is more than likely carring a gun.

hdsanders

The warden that use to be in our area, would mostly wait by the vehicles. New one this year wanted to where everyone was hunting and he proceeded to searching the woods. Guess he was trying to make a statement.

MmmmElk

As far as having a warden stop me and check tag/license, that' s happened to me almost every trip (we camp the same place every year and they know where). One time while dove hunting some citrus groves, there was a G&F officer that I guess thought he was being discreet (wore a jacket over his G&F uniform, when it was 90+ outside). Well he was carrying a SLUG gun, and actually acted like he was firing at dove and occasionally fired a slug into the groves. He came damn near hittin my bro-in-law' s dad with one of ' em. That' s the only BAD incident I' ve ever had, though.