game department check point

[georgia redneck]

I've been throught firearm safety with both of my daughters and each time a gamy came in to give his little talk. The most common violation is not tagging or improperly tagging an animal. They strongly stress it. They can ticket you even if a little bit of the day/month is left. They gave several tags that were confiscated as examples and you wouldn't believe the crap people pull. Anyways I sure understand your frustration but that's the deal. You speed, you get a ticket. You improperly tag you get a ticket. I'd be pissed either way but not at the cop. I'd be pissed at myself. 

Point well taken, we were just pissed in the way it was done. The incident happened years ago.

[TheHunt]

You want to run into a game warden... Take my son out for anything.  He is a magnet.

I have pictures of most of the game checks.   Every officer did not mind getting in the picture with my son handing his paperwork for them to OK.  In fact they were pretty cool about it. 

[countywarrior]

With all that said I applaud the members of our police forces and our Game Warden's and I do not envy there job at all. With all the idiots in the woods that they have to deal with who are carrying guns....it is a tough job and most do it with pride and integrity and again I applaud them. This guy was just and a@#hole who deserved to be treated as such. Just because they carry a badge does not give them the right to talk to or treat people in a manner with which this guy was treating my budy a member of the Fire Department for 15 years. He made a simple mistake and he knew the Regualtions the Gamy could have dealt with it differently but he did not,,,,,,,,a jerk is jerk no matter what you'r job title is.

you know your a redneck if you break the law and than bitch about attitude........

I did not break the law there skippie and if you are going to push accusations and talk sh@# reserve it to when you can talk to someone face to face.

too funny........

[Galpster]

Listen here skippy!!

Too funny

Okay buttercup!!!!

[countywarrior]

Skippie here.....      too funny Galpster im glad you commented obviously you see the humor in it that i do .....  Thanks redneck and for the record wasnt attacking you in any way....Just see on here way to many times...people crying cause they got ticketed when they straight up didnt follow the rules in the game pamphlet.  Comes down to it.....follow the rules dont break the laws and them wardens are your best friends.  And 9 out of 10 times they will help you out in finding an animal or giving up a great fishing spot.  They love the outdoors just as much if not more than we do.   They have a job to do though and its how they support there families........ Amen to them...wish i could be 1.   Peace

[georgia redneck]

Listen here skippy!!

Too funny

Okay buttercup!!!!
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[Yelm hunter]

Hunted Winston Creek and were up there for over a week and we never seen 1 game warden... WHY NOT? There were people everywhere that they should have stopped...

[rougheye]

they were all at the check station 

[strutnrut1984]

if your following the rules why worry

[ICEMAN]

....the ticket was completely ticky tack and he knew it. I can see giving a ticket to someone who intentionaly was trying to hide something or do something wrong but this ws not the case and he did not have to give that ticket. Laws are laws I know but they are there to keep the dishonest honest not to penalize someone for such a simple mistake. If he was trying to hide it I could understand to, but it ws hanging in plain site he ws just so excited he forgot to notch the month.  that try to make themselves sound smarter than the rest. Did you realy think I do not know the laws. Cop's give warnings all the time that is all he had to do. My budy is a Fireman too it did not look good on his record, Gamy was just being an a@#hole.

I am so sick of comments like yours. Crying about a ticket someone got for not following the rules they agreed to follow. Hopefully your firefighter friend learns to follow what he is trained in firefighting a bit better than he did by reading his hunting license and regulations.

Redneck, you even learned to properly validate your tag, when your buddy was cited. I say we the taxpayers got two times the value out of that citation. Now, you have shared with the entire state. I would say that citation is proving to be very effective.

The facts are that some of us have a serious problem following rules, and then even additional problems dealing with being confronted with the commanding presence of law enforcement, and always leave feeling that the officer has the problem. I am glad your friend got cited. Many learned from it. 

[agchawk]

  I did the same thing years ago (Improperly notched tag). I had notched the day on my tag but failed to notch the ENTIRE month. I had cut a slit through it but did not completely cut it out. Sure enough, I hit a check point and had no issues whatsoever showing the wardens my buck and the attached tag. After all, I am a law-abiding citizen and thought I had done everything right. Little did I know that I was about to get cited.

   The warden who wrote the citation was very understanding but explained to me that he would have to cite me for it. He even wrote on the ticket "Unintentional" and told me to explain the issue to the judge. I ended up paying a reduced fine and learned my lesson.

   Was it intentional? NO. However, I was man enough to admit my mistake and take the punishment that was metted out. I'll tell you this much, I sure learned my lesson and am careful to make sure all my "I's" are dotted and "T's" are crossed.

   I also ran into a check station in Idaho this year. Again, the wardens were very cool and I even stuck around to chat with a couple of them for a while and check out the game that came through while I was there.

   These guys have a difficult job and have to cover a lot of country. My hat's off to each and every one of them.

[MichaelD]

As a kid I can rememeber check stations in the blues when wood cutting and elk seasons overlapped.  We had to unload nearly half of a huge pickup load of wood to show we didn't have anything stuffed on the bottom of the pile.  We weren't even hunting, but we did it and moved on.
This year in the blues we were glassing a canyon and a warden pulled up behind us.  Asked us to see our licesnces, checked our rifles, then went on to talk about all the elk he had come across the previous couple of days, a big bull that was taken up the road, and discussed his plans to hunt on his days off.  First time in 20+ years I had been checked. 
I think that one thing that gets passed by in these discussions is that these guys (and gals) are hunters just like us and enjoy some of the same activities, such as hunting and outdoors, that we do.  I doubt many of the wardens or officers like to cite regular joes out there hunting and making an honest go of it, but I am also sure there are sticklers for the rules and they are totally in their rights to cite people who break the game rules. 
But to complain about not getting a warning when the person is in violation is silly.  The most common violations, and as was said before, one of the most stressed points in hunter education classes is properly tagging an animal.  We all know it, it is written in the book AND on the tags.  Violation is a violation.  Take a look at this post, imagine how many additional people will make sure they properly tag their animals after reading 7, 8 or more pages about these issues.  Heck, I even bought a leatherman multi tool last year with scissors just to propperly notch my tags so I can make sure I cut it out correctly and don't leave any of the date/month uncut.

Keep up the good work gamies!

[georgia redneck]

....the ticket was completely ticky tack and he knew it. I can see giving a ticket to someone who intentionaly was trying to hide something or do something wrong but this ws not the case and he did not have to give that ticket. Laws are laws I know but they are there to keep the dishonest honest not to penalize someone for such a simple mistake. If he was trying to hide it I could understand to, but it ws hanging in plain site he ws just so excited he forgot to notch the month.  that try to make themselves sound smarter than the rest. Did you realy think I do not know the laws. Cop's give warnings all the time that is all he had to do. My budy is a Fireman too it did not look good on his record, Gamy was just being an a@#hole.

I am so sick of comments like yours. Crying about a ticket someone got for not following the rules they agreed to follow. Hopefully your firefighter friend learns to follow what he is trained in firefighting a bit better than he did by reading his hunting license and regulations.

Redneck, you even learned to properly validate your tag, when your buddy was cited. I say we the taxpayers got two times the value out of that citation. Now, you have shared with the entire state. I would say that citation is proving to be very effective.

The facts are that some of us have a serious problem following rules, and then even additional problems dealing with being confronted with the commanding presence of law enforcement, and always leave feeling that the officer has the problem. I am glad your friend got cited. Many learned from it. 

DO you only read what you want to . It kills me how guys like you can come on here and make accusations without ever having read all of the posts an individual made you realy think you are the shi@ huh. WEll Iceman, read all of what I said abut the situation before you make assumptions and then if you have the same opinnion....well the only thing I can say is FFFFFFFFOOOOOOO.....

[ICEMAN]

I read just fine, and considering the threatening email you sent to me, I confirm your inability to deal with the truth, and buck up to the consequences of not following the rules.

Look dude, someone has to step up and set a good example for society, it may be a cop, or a gamie, or just an average hunter who decides to follow the rules which govern our sport. Be a man and take the consequences of your actions without trying to label the gamie a bad guy.

[rasbo]

wow!!!!lots of entertainment on this one..



I can tell you I do not feel bad about scaring the *censored* out of the guy before he left camp. Gamy or not ;man to man; the guy should be ashamed of himself it was a useless and uncalled for ticket.


Hmm !!! Statements like that,Your lucky I wasnt the game Warden,Attitude like that could have possibly taken your buddies illegally tagged elk.when I smack myself in the thumb with a hammer,I dont cuss the hammer sorry hard to side with ya when your wrong