Wardens in the woods

[boneaddict]

legal advice....since they don't have any rights to stop you, I recommend gunning it and blowing through.      Maybe thats why I am not a lawyer.

[pianoman9701]

legal advice....since they don't have any rights to stop you, I recommend gunning it and blowing through.      Maybe thats why I am not a lawyer.

  Let us know how it works out for you.

[Woodchuck]

ding ding ding

HUH?

[Caseyd]

legal advice....since they don't have any rights to stop you, I recommend gunning it and blowing through.      Maybe thats why I am not a lawyer.

 

Don't forget to video tape it so we all can watch later 

[bobcat]

legal advice....since they don't have any rights to stop you, I recommend gunning it and blowing through.      Maybe thats why I am not a lawyer.

    

[golfguy0912]

WSP training classes are about wrapped up for the year.  I believe they are training in the wildlife department at the moment.  I am not sure they are allowed to carry firearms at the moment, they have been checked out on Tazers.   Its very likely they are riding with a seasoned game officer, hence the one trying to get their grade (bad cop) and the one laughing to himself.  The main training facility is in Shelton I believe.

Huh?

I don't believe that WSP does training with WDFW.

They don't. They have talked about putting Fish and Game and WSP together under one hat for years, but I dont see it happening. They do use the same Communication centers, but thats about it.

Also the WSP training classes are not wrapped up, they just started a new one two weeks ago. They wont have a break in the academy till well into next year, if not later

[JLS]

I see Sitka still hasn't bothered to answer the question as to why he finds it troublesome that game wardens carry Taser?

[Blacktail Sniper]

I dont think he can check u driving...how the heck does he know that your hunting?? now if you were walking up the road or walking up to your rig with a weapon yes

you would likely be wrong.... if you are driving into or out of an area prone to hunting....i.e. logging roads, wdfw, dnr, or forest service roads, you are believed to be hunting if an active season is open, and they do have the option and discretion to check you.  As part of purchasing a hunting license you are supposed to comply.

If you are driving on hwy 2 then the same doesn't apply unless you drive by a check station with antlers hanging out the back of the pickup.  they would have the probable cause to check you because you have a visible animal hanging out fo the back of the pickup.

Interesting tid-bit I found, 

http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=77.15.470   

If Hwy 2 is a state hiway, check stations cannot be set-up on interstate or state hiways according to the RCW.   

But with an animal or part of one exposed, that would be another issue. 

[JLS]

The RCW pertains to enforcement check stations.  The one on Highway 2 is for biological data collection.

[dscubame]

The RCW pertains to enforcement check stations.  The one on Highway 2 is for biological data collection.

Yes that is how they get around it.  Like the Japanese whale hunting.

[JLS]

The RCW pertains to enforcement check stations.  The one on Highway 2 is for biological data collection.

Yes that is how they get around it.  Like the Japanese whale hunting.

Do you get checked by game wardens there, or biologists?

[whacker1]

The RCW pertains to enforcement check stations.  The one on Highway 2 is for biological data collection.

Yes that is how they get around it.  Like the Japanese whale hunting.

Do you get checked by game wardens there, or biologists?

Typically biologists and volunteers, but game wardens to stop by from time to time.  Usually they don't because they are working on enforcement issues

[CedarPants]

The check station up north on 395 during the early buck season looked to be manned by high school kids that were doing the macarena.

I almost pulled in to get out and show them how it was done the right way

[300rum]

I was coming out of Idaho last week into Spokane and passed an Idaho game warden just past the state line (we were barely Washington).  I figured we were going to get pulled over as the antlers of our bucks were above the bed of the pickup, just lying on the bed.  He didn't pull us over, he was looking real hard though.  I wonder why he didn't?  Maybe because we were in Washington?  Maybe he didn't care or had other things to do?

 

[cascademountainhunter]

I'm all for the wardens and them out checking people but i hate it when there are those wardens that have to act all high and mighty or be jerks for no reason. Last year i went out hunting with some buddies durring late buck. I had already got my deer in the early season but still had my rifle with me so i could shoot coyotes, plus i just feel naked in the woods without a gun anyway. And bear had just ended so i couldnt shoot a bear if i saw one. So anyway he asked me what i was doing with a gun since I had already killed my deer. So i told him I could still shoot coyotes. And he says to me and i quote "I was hopin youd say you were bear huntin so i could write you a ticket." That just rubbed me wrong and he went on to check my buddies also and wasnt very friendly to any of us. At the same spot he checked my dad previously that year and he wasnt friendly at all to my dad either. I dont know what his name was but i wish there was a way to look it up does anyone know if there is? It's people like him that give wardens a bad reputation and is why alot of people dont like them.