one is not required to carry a hunting license with you at all times, tell em pound sand.

I got checked in New Mexico many years ago by a real asshole of a GW, we hadn't started hunting yet and were down the road getting water from a public well. No hunting clothes or guns. He asked for my hunting license, I replied I didn't know I had to have one to load water. He got huffy, I told him to pound sand. He left.

I have to disagree with they can enforce it. If a person is smart (I KNOW, thats a stretch) the GWs would have to spend WAY too much time trying to catch one person. On the 3 buck limit a person would have to be checked 3 times (at least) in a season ad have killed a buck each day. How many people have been checked 3 times in 1 year?

They set up log truck stations at the dang gate of sawmills and paper mills and check the truck from one end to the other. Often they will find something to write a ticket for, but they don't consider the logger is trying to make a living. They might tie up a truck for 3 or so hours, and the logger loses a load of wood being hauled that day. If a truck driver tries to say something he can bet that he will be checked thoroughly every time that he drives by that DOT man.

I can guarantee you they keep this up and ignore the hard core poachers and night hunters phones will ring in Montgomery. Law abiding hunters, none hunters , basically everyone but the hard core poachers , road hunters and night hunters themselves want the lions share of the GWs time spent there. Would they rather bust a " Al Capone" of hunting , or some old guy that isn't carrying a slip of paper and a pencil? I know our local guys absolutely love busting the hard core, repeat offenders. We have several and several groups of them in Jackson County, business is booming.

So we should be nice to law enforcement making questionable roadblocks and checks of "our papers" even in situations when it is not mandated to show them?

No. That's crap. These roadblocks are crap. You are not hunting and unless you have a deer (or ducks, or other game) in your vehicle then you are not required to show anyone jackschitt in regard to a hunting license or "harvest" record or anything other than your driver's license and insurance if you're merely driving down the road (unless you're on a WMA road).

What if you are wearing camo, eating lunch in a cafe and the GW walks up to your table and demands to see your hunting license and "harvest" record? You're in camo. Heck, you could have been hunting at some point recently. Might as well show those papers to him?

You're at the gas pump putting gas in the truck. No trailer, no nothing in your truck other than you're in a camo shirt and Muck boots over jeans. GW asks to see your license and "harvest" record. You going to show him?

Because saying that showing them at a roadblock is fine is the same as at a cafe or on the sidewalk or gas station just because you're wearing camo or driving a truck with an ATV or something.

If y'all were walking down the street and a police officer or sheriff's deputy demanded to see your driver's license, some of y'all would chit your pants about how Big Government is being overbearing and this is a horrible travesty since you weren't doing anything but walking and have no need to show any ID.

Yet some of the same will shrug and say "Oh, it's ok" and willingly do the same at a roadblock when a GW asks for a hunting license and "harvest" record when you are not hunting and are not legally bound to possess either of those UNLESS you are hunting. I suspect many are the same who would say "I don't mind if the cops search my home-garage-work. I don't have anything to hide."


I guess the "It's a minor inconvenience ..." attitude comes into play here for many.

He said he was driving down Hwy. 183. He met the game warden and he turned around and pulled him over.

Also when I hit the road block they asked me where I hunted.

Bbdown (aka Rock), your gone again. In case you wonder why you keep getting banned, let spell it out for you: You had your wife get on here and make a post threatening to sue this site. There's no forgiveness or coming back from that. So GO AWAY!!! You may get back in here at some point, just like you have 4 or 5 times before, but you always out yourself some way. When you do, I will ban your ass again. So take the hint, no one wants you here.