I have no problems with them. In fact I welcome them. If they feel the need to walk up to me and check me out then so be it. I have nothing to hide and it probably wouldn't be the end of the world if he ruined a couple hours of a hunt. I would actually probably benefit from it by talking to him/her. They have a lot of knowledge. Also a good time to drop a few names of some serious poachers and addresses and phone numbers and vehicles and plate #'s etc........

I must ask why did you put your stand so close to a logging road? I would think anyone at anytime could have driven down that road and ruined your hunting?
The game warden might have seen that you were not wearing orange so he decided to check you out?
Game wardens have a tough job to due if you think about it everyone they deal with is armed. They are supposed to check licenses in the field with minimum interference to your hunting pleasure.
You were breaking the law by not wearing orange while hunting. I would have called you down from the stand myself. I am a federal warden & you were breaking the law. I would have felt it was my duty to check you out. You might have been a poacher that did not have a license?

I did have my orange with me , i walk to my stand with it but i am bow hunting, i have to get 20 steps from the deer. But i do understand that they are doing their job and i do respect them much! as far as me hunting on a logging rd, well it is between a bedding area and a feeding area, the deer dont mind tractors and vehicles but run when they stop. i have watched four deer 40 yards away from the road just freeze when a vehicle comes by then go back to feeding. It isnt exactly the ideal stop i know, but its all i have.

Wearing orange while you are bow hunting seems like a silly law to me. This is one law you should talk with your state DNR director about changing. I fail to see how this law will save any archers life. If you are archery hunting during a gun season I can see there point.

Good luck hunting,

thanx for all your input!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wish my county had more game wardens. I know a number of them and one is a close friend (used to frequent this site). They have helped me to somewhat control the poachers that had overrun my area. Around here, they don't enter your property unless asked to or given reason to believe illegal activity is taking place there. I haven't met one yet that just enjoyed "messing with you" although I'm sure some exist--just like in any line of work.

All I got to say is you don't have your stand very well placed if someone can drive down the road and see you. I've had people within yards of me looking around and talking and never know I was there. You really need to get some background/foreground screen.[8D] As far as the game warden checking you out. He was doing his job. I take it it's not private land but a paper company lease or something??? Most states that allow bowhunting during firearms season state you must wear orange(so some gunslinger doesn't blast you). If you take it off you got to be willing to pay the consequences. I do it when I get up in my tree, but I also understand a gamewarden CAN write me up.

in the state of AL. you have to wear orange going to and from stand but once you get 16 feet above the ground you can take it off.. maybe there is a stipulation allowing you to take it off at a certain height?

what a stupid law, orange while bowhunting! never heard of such a thing. as for different kinds of gamewardens, we seem to have for the most part decent ones, however, a gamewarden deserves what he gets sometimes pulling bonehead moves like that. a good example is the one who was spying on my family's camp one night while they were playing poker. he was walking around the camp, peeking in windows, just because he thought something might have been going on( he told someone this later on, not knowing he was speaking with another relative.) that is the kind of person, warden or not that deserves whatever happens to them. while i am not promoting violence on wardens, i am promoting common sense, which it sounds like neither your warden, or mine has much of. at the wrong camp, say with a bunch of drunks or dopers in camp,i hate to think of what could have happened to him.

I had one do the same thing earlier this season, walked right to my stand and made me come down and walk 1/4 mile back to his truck to check my liscence. Found out he had been on my lease looking around enough that he knew where 6 out of 8 of my stands where and several of them are back in oak swamps with no marked trail leading to them.