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Title: anyone had any problems with game wardens around cheney area?
Post by: mad-bomber on November 24, 2009, 09:49:18 PM: just wondering? hearing some pretty funny stories about them not knowing what they are taling about.
Title: Re: anyone had any problems with game wardens around cheney area?
Post by: lokidog on November 24, 2009, 10:58:09 PM: I had one on the westside once who couldn't identify the pintail in eclipse plumage that I had....

:dunno:
Title: Re: anyone had any problems with game wardens around cheney area?
Post by: shoot-em-dead on November 24, 2009, 11:05:54 PM: I've bumped into them a few times with no problems. The ones I have met are from other areas coming over for day trips.
Title: Re: anyone had any problems with game wardens around cheney area?
Post by: mad-bomber on November 26, 2009, 12:04:12 AM: i was stopped in cheney with a deer in the truck and one asked me if i was shooting RUFFED grouse down in the revere area south of sprauge lake! i asked if he had ever seen a RUFFED grouse in the sagebrush down there and he said "i dont know where that is" this warden works this area.just thought he should know a little more about the area he works in. seems like the new generation is out to get hunters anyway they can these days.i just think they should be on our side.
Title: Re: anyone had any problems with game wardens around cheney area?
Post by: DBake on November 26, 2009, 07:01:31 AM: Quote from: mad-bomber on November 26, 2009, 12:04:12 AM
i was stopped in cheney with a deer in the truck and one asked me if i was shooting RUFFED grouse down in the revere area south of sprauge lake! i asked if he had ever seen a RUFFED grouse in the sagebrush down there and he said "i dont know where that is" this warden works this area.just thought he should know a little more about the area he works in. seems like the new generation is out to get hunters anyway they can these days.i just think they should be on our side.

They are on our side, thats why they are asking questions first.
Title: Re: anyone had any problems with game wardens around cheney area?
Post by: mossback91 on November 26, 2009, 07:24:43 AM: Did have a biologist tell me that he wished the game wardens had more natural resources type training requirements so they could identify the games animals better :dunno:
Title: Re: anyone had any problems with game wardens around cheney area?
Post by: alanger on November 26, 2009, 07:27:53 AM: Quote from: mossback91 on November 26, 2009, 07:24:43 AM
Did have a biologist tell me that he wished the game wardens had more natural resources type training requirements so they could identify the games animals better :dunno:

wow.

HEy guys i think thats a white rhino!
Title: Re: anyone had any problems with game wardens around cheney area?
Post by: phishisgroovin on November 26, 2009, 03:49:55 PM: we had issues with a gamie up on colockum trying to cite my nephew for having a loaded rifle in the vehicle just because Nano held a single round in his sleeve (as he has always done).
Nano was moving the rifle he had between his legs in the rig when we pulled up on the gamies truck, trying to get out the gamie yelled to remain in the vehicle!
Excuse me, we stopped to talk to you mr gamie, not the other way around.

Turned out he was a first year rookie with a chip on his shoulders.
Hell, if they would have looked at me (the white guy) i was packing hot loads under my jacket, in my truck while driving down the road (CPL). they could have had fun with that one lol! (or the other way around when i handed them my weapons permit before they started writing lol!)
Title: Re: anyone had any problems with game wardens around cheney area?
Post by: alanger on November 26, 2009, 06:16:42 PM: Quote from: phishisgroovin on November 26, 2009, 03:49:55 PM
we had issues with a gamie up on colockum trying to cite my nephew for having a loaded rifle in the vehicle just because Nano held a single round in his sleeve (as he has always done).
Nano was moving the rifle he had between his legs in the rig when we pulled up on the gamies truck, trying to get out the gamie yelled to remain in the vehicle!
Excuse me, we stopped to talk to you mr gamie, not the other way around.

Turned out he was a first year rookie with a chip on his shoulders.
Hell, if they would have looked at me (the white guy) i was packing hot loads under my jacket, in my truck while driving down the road (CPL). they could have had fun with that one lol! (or the other way around when i handed them my weapons permit before they started writing lol!)

i saw that guy trying to act all tough and like the *censored*.
Title: Re: anyone had any problems with game wardens around cheney area?
Post by: BAR C3 on November 26, 2009, 07:33:44 PM: You haven't had problems with a game warden until you meet the fine Warden Cram in Republic. He was chased out of Fork after years of harrassing everyone over there and now I hear he is real popular up in Republic. Biggest prick you will ever meet. Likes to pull his gun on teenagers. Still traumatized by that.
Most of them got there lunch money taken in school!
Title: Re: anyone had any problems with game wardens around cheney area?
Post by: BigGoonTuna on November 26, 2009, 09:14:04 PM: sounds like that guy would've made a fine MP!
Title: Re: anyone had any problems with game wardens around cheney area?
Post by: robodad on November 26, 2009, 10:03:18 PM: Cram is a legend out here on the OP, I'm glad to see him on the other side of the state but I never had any problems with him, just don't try to crack a joke about doing something questionable, he takes everything seriously and is by the book !!

I heard a story someone wrestled him to the ground took his gun belt off and threw it into the front of his drift boat along with his radio and cell phone then hand cuffed Cram to the back of the boat and sent him down the river. Maybe just a rumor but I have heard it from a couple different folks !!!
Title: Re: anyone had any problems with game wardens around cheney area?
Post by: mad-bomber on November 27, 2009, 08:25:28 AM: i was told a story like that by andy strauch in republic.
Title: Re: anyone had any problems with game wardens around cheney area?
Post by: haus on November 27, 2009, 01:34:33 PM: Quote from: mad-bomber on November 24, 2009, 09:49:18 PM
just wondering? hearing some pretty funny stories about them not knowing what they are taling about.
...which is also a valid tactic to see if the hunter knows wtf he shot, especially when it comes to bird hunting. Course then its hard to tell which one really doesn't have a clue and which one does :chuckle:

Never had a problem with them myself, don't do anything against the book, most hunters that bitch about them are generally pricks themselves. Only issue I have with wardens is that we need about 3x as many, possibly catch more of the damn migrants poaching animals when they're suppose to be picking bear grass or whatever it is their gathering.
Title: Re: anyone had any problems with game wardens around cheney area?
Post by: BAR C3 on November 27, 2009, 06:27:27 PM: Quote from: haus on November 27, 2009, 01:34:33 PM
Quote from: mad-bomber on November 24, 2009, 09:49:18 PM
just wondering? hearing some pretty funny stories about them not knowing what they are taling about.
...which is also a valid tactic to see if the hunter knows wtf he shot, especially when it comes to bird hunting. Course then its hard to tell which one really doesn't have a clue and which one does :chuckle:

Never had a problem with them myself, don't do anything against the book, most hunters that bitch about them are generally pricks themselves. Only issue I have with wardens is that we need about 3x as many, possibly catch more of the damn migrants poaching animals when they're suppose to be picking bear grass or whatever it is their gathering.
IF you can find anyone from Fork/Clallam Bay or Republic/Curlew that says a good thing about Warden Cram, I will publicly apoligize on here to him. Anyone who sticks his handgun in a teenagers face is a bonified punk. Did it to more than one. On one occasion he did it to two friends of mine who were 16 and shooting there 22's in a pit. Then he conficated there jack and lung wrench because he had a flat tire. He tought they were suspicious and because they were not cooperating, he pulled his gun. He was reported and the game department said because they had 22's, he was justified. Forks isn't Compton!
He also pulled is gun on me and five other guys in high school because we also were not cooperating.
I'm pretty familiar with the laws, not cooperating isn't a threat! The guy is a genuine BRICK!
I need here some fellas put his truck in neutral at a boat launch on the Columbia and rolled his rig in the Columbia. Could be a rumor. Being from Clallam Bay, I know his mailbox had some fireworks in Forks.
Title: Re: anyone had any problems with game wardens around cheney area?
Post by: 700xcr on November 27, 2009, 07:49:16 PM: I have had a couple run inns with Wardens in different area. One was in the Blues while elk hunting with a T/C Encore handgun with a 15" barrel 35 Whelen shooting 250gr. bullets traveling 2100fps. He tried to tell me that it was not legal to hunt elk with. Did not site me. Brother-in-law offered him $50.00 to take one shot out of it. Then he said no thanks it would be a handful. When I got back on called headqaurter and talked with the guy that wrote the handgun regulation and he said he would go to court with me if ever sited. Another one was while duck hunting on the river. Warden asked to see my pump shotgun to see if plug was installed. So I unloaded my gun and handed it to him with the action opened. He asked for my shells so I handed them to him. Then he proceeded to fill the magazine. Found out that the plug was installed and handed the loaded gun back to me. When he was leaving I said excuse me you just handed me a loaded gun. He said there was not one in the chamber. I said so you mean to tell me it is not loaded and now I could put this gun in a vehicle and is not considered a loaded shotgun. He said no. His game Warden partner said we all make mistakes and have to be reminded about safety rules.
Title: Re: anyone had any problems with game wardens around cheney area?
Post by: Dicko Bob on November 27, 2009, 08:11:33 PM: I was hunting with some buds out by Downs lake little while back. We were walking back to our truck and he was standing in the road like he was in some western movie with his jacket pulled back like he was going to draw his weapon. When we got about 50 feet from him he yelled out "hold it right there, jack open those actions!" The road we were on it is not lawful to have a loaded gun. So we did, we were all following the rules. We got over to the truck and he relaxed a little and began to chew my ass about where I had parked, and chewing out my body about his dog not being leashed. He decided to give us warnings, however, he made us fill out our own tickets??? That warden was a little loopy!
Title: Re: anyone had any problems with game wardens around cheney area?
Post by: Dicko Bob on November 27, 2009, 08:14:44 PM: The warning I had to write was for parking in the wrong area, and my buddy for not having a leash on his dog!
Title: Re: anyone had any problems with game wardens around cheney area?
Post by: mad-bomber on November 28, 2009, 12:34:30 AM: we had a buck in the back of my pickup parked a zips and 4 of us were eating dinner and a that game warden came inside and told my buddy he needed to discuss the deer with him.wtf.if it would have been my deer i would have told him the tag is on it and feel free to look at it! or to wait untill i finished my meal.
Title: Re: anyone had any problems with game wardens around cheney area?
Post by: kenzmad on November 28, 2009, 07:38:12 AM: I have had one encounter with Cram in republic. wife and 2 daughters fishing ferry lake. 4 people 3 fishing poles in the boat. when we got to shoe he was barking "show me your license" we were still 30 feet from shore. I had grabbed the stack of licenses from the prior year. he got all worked up as he was gonna write us up. when he left to run our wild id #s a local pulled up with his boy. when I told him the warden was just here and will be back in a minute to finish up with us he told his boy to get in the truck. he explained about several run ins with him and said he will fish another day and drove off. after cram came back he was very cool and gave both my kids sticker badges to wear. he also showed me his photo album of the deer taken in the area. My take on him is, very gruff and stern at first but if you check out ok not a bad guy. :twocents:
Title: Re: anyone had any problems with game wardens around cheney area?
Post by: haus on November 30, 2009, 02:31:04 PM: Quote from: BAR C3 on November 27, 2009, 06:27:27 PM
IF you can find anyone from Fork/Clallam Bay or Republic/Curlew that says a good thing about Warden Cram, I will publicly apoligize on here to him. Anyone who sticks his handgun in a teenagers face is a bonified punk. Did it to more than one. On one occasion he did it to two friends of mine who were 16 and shooting there 22's in a pit. Then he conficated there jack and lung wrench because he had a flat tire. He tought they were suspicious and because they were not cooperating, he pulled his gun. He was reported and the game department said because they had 22's, he was justified. Forks isn't Compton!
He also pulled is gun on me and five other guys in high school because we also were not cooperating.
I'm pretty familiar with the laws, not cooperating isn't a threat! The guy is a genuine BRICK!
I need here some fellas put his truck in neutral at a boat launch on the Columbia and rolled his rig in the Columbia. Could be a rumor. Being from Clallam Bay, I know his mailbox had some fireworks in Forks.
Which would be specifically why I said most instead of all. Thats quite the story.