crappy wardens

[JaMak84]

Just don't stop at McDonald's.

or carry your staps in with you when you order

[Wingman]

Stop at the B.P. Station next time. If you going to be in the Belzoni area

We don't take too kindly to out of towners at the BP. Heck, who am I kidding? They don't even like me in there. But if you do come in there, don't get the last buffalo wings. That is a guaranteed ticket.

[driveby]

I think you should wear your ducks strapped around your neck while eating at Mickey D's along with your lanyard and "full negro" face paint. That would be freakin' awesome and the Duck Ninjas would be totally jealous.

[mudsucker]

I think you should wear your ducks strapped around your neck while eating at Mickey D's along with your lanyard and "full negro" face paint. That would be freakin' awesome and the Duck Ninjas would be totally jealous.

You mean your crew DOES NOT do this already? We do!

[Bullet]

Roberto I received your email on your fishing fiasco. Kudos. You sir are a caviar conisiuer. I cant believe this thing has made it almost 10 pgs.

I love Mcdonalds, its so good

[JAMES FARMS]

thanks everybody for your insights on this issue. i respect everyones opinion, opinioins are like @$$ holes everyboy has one, lol i got alot of helpful feed back from people some were even there that day at the ramp. I dont understand how so hany people got so angry at this post "you know who you are game wardens" ha. truth is i have nothing but respect for conservation officers have a few i talk to quiet frequently. i would not even give out this wardens name when asked. Like i said earlier he was the 4th GW i talked to that day, the other 3 were really professional and nothing but polite, the 4th i dont know what his problem was that day. i truly believe i was getting a ticket that day for something, he already had his mind made up. The other GW could not believe i was getting a ticket and tried to talk him out of it, that shows me he was over stepping the law. this same warden wrote a boy a couple days later a ticket for not putting his wma card on his dashboard. the card was filled out correctly just was left in plain sight on the center console where the boy had filled it out in the darkness that morning. If a hunter is trying his best to hunt ethically and obey that states laws why not be professional toward him, and that is my 2 cents

[dandy_don]

i truly believe i was getting a ticket that day for something, he already had his mind made up.

Our company routinely entertains clients and one of the most popular ideas is to take them duck hunting. One of my partners took some clients over to Arkansas on a guided hunt 2 years ago. Over dinner later that night, they were talking about an incident that had happened that day.

They said as they were coming off the water, a GW walked right past them headed directly towards another group coming in about the same time. They said they figured he had seen something specific by the way he walked right past them as if they weren't even there. They packed their gear, left and went to town for lunch.

As they were leaving the restaurant, the other group was coming in. One of the guys in our group asked them what happened. The gentleman told them that the GW searched them from one end to the other, spent over 30 minutes with them checking licenses, plugs, shells, the whole works. At the end of the ordeal, they got a ticket for having one less life jacket than the number of hunters in the boat. He said the same thing, he knew about 2 minutes into the interrogation he was going to get a ticket--"for what" was going to be determined.

[SHANE704]

bump for page 10!!

[4dawgma]

not there yet

[MSDawg870]

Bump in honor of Mr. Jeff Foiles.

[LODI QUACKER]

How bout now?

[LODI QUACKER]

NOW??

[Wingman]

Bump in honor of Mr. Jeff Foiles.

Those wardens had their minds made up he was getting a ticket at year one of the investigation. Easy pickings. Why don't they catch the real violators for once?

[LODI QUACKER]

Funny,

I am a llittle confused though, how is it Foiles problem that the hunters killed over the limit??

[Click]

The original intent of the federal game laws was basically to stop market hunting. We are now so far afield from that basic end that the entire reason for the implementation of the laws has been forgotten. Our federal game laws, in many respects, have simply become a means of subjective harassment by the enforcers of those laws. As described by the shared experiences of many here in this thread, when stopped and checked by federal wardens the results usually include something along the lines of "..we could have cited you for x. y, and z, but chose not to do so" (because we didn't want to appear to be a bunch of cheesedicks). Much like our tax laws have become, the game laws have become so extensive and burdensome that even those who try to comply and be good sportsmen can often be found noncompliant. The practical use of these laws for most of the enforcement officers is to use them to really put the hammer down on those caught in more serious violations ---- just icing on the cake so to speak. But, in the hands of the inexperienced or those wanting to find violations for the sake of writing tickets, the laws usually can serve that purpose even against the most careful sportsmen.

When three guys cannot emerge from a duck hunt with 5 total birds (well within our daily bag limits) without being ticketed for a "tagging violation", we have reached the threshold of pointless absurdity. What real purpose did that serve? How did that ticket protect the resource or the sport? It didn't. Were the actions of the hunters "unethical"? No.

Laws can be changed folks. They weren't set by fiat from a King. Federal laws were enacted by Congress and can be modified by Congress. State laws were enacted by our legislature and signed by the Gov. Perhaps its time to make some concrete suggestions to the people who can make a difference --- our members of Congress --- US Representatives and Senators, or state legislators. . Surely we can prevent market gunning and enforce our daily bag limits without the necessity of the current federal and state laws as written (most likely by folks who don't even hunt and wouldn't know a duck from an ardvark), and without harassing our good sportsmen. When most finally get to the point of just saying F^*& it and just stop hunting, then I suppose we won't even need wardens. At that point, the anti-hunters will have won the battle through over-regulation, as opposed to popular support(this is exactly the tactics of the left in other areas --- what makes anyone think that this is not the desired end game here?).


Yet one more example and one more step toward the "pussification" of America.

Amen