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Post by kooch on Mar 29, 2021 17:17:30 GMT -6
How often do you see them? I've been checked for a license one time hunting, in Southern MN. Aside from that, I've never seen one in the field, ever. I ran in to one at a gas station in Baudette one time and he seemed like a nice fella. In three years at Kamp Kooch, I haven't seen a single one. I hear stories, but none of them are recent.
On an Elk hunt in CO one of the guys in our party killed an illegal spike Bull Elk, and self-reported. We waited for him to make the long drive out to our camp. He was professional, courteous, and all that. The guy did not get off without a citation. But it was very modest. He even gave him another tag, which went unfilled.
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Post by daydreamer on Mar 29, 2021 17:24:17 GMT -6
Been checked once fishing locally and once rifle hunting in my 29 year hunting/fishing span. Big areas, low budget work. Would love to see more of them.
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Post by Catscratch on Mar 29, 2021 17:35:54 GMT -6
I've seen a couple while fishing. My family was visited by one when I was a kid. We would hunt a ton during Thanksgiving and hang everything in the garage until the last day (weather permitting), then clean and package everything. We would have possession limits of ducks, geese, quail, pheasants, rabbits, a deer or two, plus a ton of stretched pelts from trapping. Looked impressive to have the rafters full, but we were never outside of the law. Someone happened by and reported it so the GW came to look. No big deal. Otherwise they are spread pretty thin around here. I wish there were more of them.
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Post by Freeborn on Mar 29, 2021 17:40:21 GMT -6
I have been checked on a couple of occasions fishing but never hunting. Now that I am hunting private land I doubt I will see one in Minnesota.
I have never been checked out west either.
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Post by smsmith on Mar 29, 2021 18:06:45 GMT -6
I was checked a few times while fishing in WI. One time while grouse hunting there too. Haven't been checked here, but my neighbor's brother got a ticket this year for not tagging the deer right away. I do see the warden roll through here fairly frequently.
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Post by biglakebass on Mar 29, 2021 18:10:46 GMT -6
checked duck hunting once in Sherburne Natl Refuge, checked once rifle hunting(CO walked out to my stand in the middle of the woods, he got a tip that a guy renting our old farmhouse was hunting with a license under his wife), probably 3 or 4 times fishing, once on 94 on a large scale check at a rest area on Sunday of duck opener, and once coming home from Rainy River at a large checkpoint half way between Baudette and Red Lake. Probably a few more that I am forgetting. Edit: checked in ND while duck hunting too Edit: Checked in Canada fishing twice
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Post by kooch on Mar 29, 2021 18:25:49 GMT -6
I think they must all be focusing on the shenanigans at stab camp.
Come to think of it, I was checked by a SD guy fishing Summit Lake from the bank just after ice out one time. He was a friendly young fella too and we ended up sitting on the rocks shooting the breeze and spitting Copenhagen together for close to 45 minutes.
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Post by Reagan on Mar 29, 2021 18:35:50 GMT -6
First time as a teenager. I killed a doe the last day of bow season and checked it in. GW showed up at our home to see the deer to confirm it was shot by an arrow. He said a lot of people shoot deer with a gun and check as bow
Checked 3-4 times duck hunting public in Ohio. The last time the dicks pulled their boat right into our spread on the Ohio river.
Was checked once in Kansas on a duck hunt.
Had a pair check me at my vehicle on my own place. I told them I was happy to see them.
And the last was a check on a Colorado elk hunt. Someone reported a dead moose. They were there to investigate. They thought they had Dad when they saw him carrying a crossbow. Stage 4 cancer and a doctor note made him legal.
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Post by sd51555 on Mar 29, 2021 18:35:57 GMT -6
I think they must all be focusing on the shenanigans at stab camp. I've probably been checked 10-15 times on Red Lake. It was enough that I have no interest in ever going back there. That wasn't why, but it didn't help. Crowds, cops, cost, pollution, 1 species of fish, no thanks. Red lake is the poster child of why I can't stand public fishing any longer. They make their rounds up at camp. Don't really ever bother anyone. Can't really bust anyone for anything when nobody gets a deer and there's hardly anyone hunting up there. I'd be more prepared for tickets for not killing deer before I ever expect them to try protecting deer.
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Post by biglakebass on Mar 29, 2021 18:39:23 GMT -6
I welcome the checks as long as it not screwing up my hunt. Getting checked fishing is no bother. I have had nothing but good encounters.
Treat them as you expect to be treated, and it goes well every time.
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Post by badgerfowl on Mar 29, 2021 19:00:14 GMT -6
I think we’ve been checked as much in Canada as we have here. Always fishing. Don’t recall getting checked for hunting ever.
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Post by nhmountains on Mar 29, 2021 19:03:27 GMT -6
About 40 years ago on the last day of rabbit season in late March we’d snowshoed in two miles to a nice rabbit spot to run our beagles. They got one going and it circled by me but, I didn’t see it. Things got tougher after that. I met my dad in a trail. We were talking when I noticed somebody coming our way. The dogs were coming through so I went to cut them off for a shot at the rabbit.
It turns out the guy was a game warden. He checked my dad’s license and then went after me. He came up to me and chatted. Then asked why I left when I saw him coming. I told him I was trying to get the rabbit. He asked for my license. I showed it to him. Just as the rabbit came through. It would’ve been an easy shot but, I was busy. The dogs came by and gave me the look.
So the warden left and we went back to trying to get the rabbit. We never did get the rabbit. 4 hours I pulled the dogs off the track. They hated to leave a track but, we had a two mile hike out as well.
The next time I saw that warden was at my grandmother’s funeral. Evidently he and my grandfather were close friends.
The local warden for my camp area has stopped by several times to chat but, hadn’t checked my license since he found out I have a lifetime license when he checked my bear years ago.
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Post by kooch on Mar 29, 2021 19:25:58 GMT -6
“The dogs came by and gave me the look”.
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Post by caveman on Mar 29, 2021 19:32:48 GMT -6
I think I hunted 18 days last rifle and muzzy season and saw a warden on 8 of those days (all on public land.) Was checked 3 times, once on opener, and once for each park deer. At this point with past many year's experience, I expect to be checked by the warden at least once for each rifle and muzzy season.
I would much rather see them around than not. Don't need to get checked every day, and I haven't been, but their presence in the wild west of public hunting land that I often hunt is the only thing giving those deer and me a chance.
Used to get checked about once a year fishing, and about every other year duck hunting.
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Post by biglakebass on Mar 29, 2021 19:49:38 GMT -6
I might try the George Floyd method of communication next time I get checked. I will report back and let you know how it goes.
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