ya'll don't care if a law enforcement agency(any) violates the law and/or your constitutional rights as long as YOU feel you have done nothing wrong and the bad guys might get caught??? Really??

Just where would YOU draw the line on a law enforcement agency breaking the law?? Walking into your house without any legal warrant to look for whatever they wanted?? It ain't no big deal, just a little inconvience to you. They won't find anything illegal so it ain't no big deal???

If we would just have a limit and go to tags this would not be a problem.

You guys could show the GW at the roadblock the tag on your button bucks and everything would be good. No problems then.

This is giving me flashbacks. I went through the same road block in the same location on the last weekend of season last year. It was around 6 or 7 p.m. There were Game wardens from multiple counties at the roadblock. They were questioning everyone who looked to be hunters. My dad was driving the truck and in street clothes, they gave him a warning for hunting without a license (he wasn't hunting, and when he does hunt it is on his own private land), gave me a ticket for hunting without a license and no harvest record ( i had killed a buck and a doe and had no harvest record so i was in violation of that one). The other person with us had a buck and a doe and got a ticket for no harvest record as well. After an hour on the side of the road waiting for our tickets we finally were released and barely made it to shanas processor in time.

After multiple calls with game warden office, head of game wardens, macon county court etc. i never got any info on how much the ticket would be. I tried to go in advance to show my license that i did not have with me that night because i was not hunting, i was just riding in a truck to a processor and then back to camp for the night. They said i had to go before the judge for the no license issue. So i go to my court date which is full of people in similar situations and 2 game wardens. I go before the judge and apparently my no license ticket was already thrown out and no one had informed me. This made the court date a waste of time since the license ticket was the only reason i went to the court date. And when i attempted to show my license and pay in advance of course no help was given. So I paid my court costs and harvest record ticket and was done with it.

Even better, my buddy who was in the truck that got a harvest record ticket went ahead and paid his in advance since it was only the harvest record ticket, the macon county courts screwed that up and listed him as a failure to appear in court. Luckily for him i was in court that day for mine and i let him know. He called up there and confirmed he had a failure to appear and he had to contact judge directly to get that taken care of as apparently he had become a fugitive because macon county court system is full of idiots.

It was a wonderful experience and there was a pretty lengthy thread on it last year at the time. I was guilty of no harvest record so no one to blame but myself, but the whole road block by a processor on the last weekend with multiple game wardens from multiple counties checking hunting license and harvest records from everyone who appeared to be a hunter seemed a little over the top to me as well.

Agreed

So, Muzzie and Goatkiller, if you're driving down the road and not hunting or engaged in any way whatsoever with hunting but are stopped by a Game Warden who demands to see your hunting license and "harvest" record only because you're in a truck or have an ATV or something, then you have zero problem with that and are happy to comply showing your papers to him at any time of the day or night?

they give yer dad a written or verbal warning??

I've got no problem with it Clem. I've been a Waterfowl hunter my whole life and I'm no stranger to having my license checked on the water, at the ramp, wherever.....

That's like saying if I'm riding down the river FISHING in a camo boat wearing Camo during duck season and the Marine police or Game Warden pulls me over to check my boat. All I've got is fishing rods so I'm on my way.

He pulls me over and I've got fishing rods and a shotgun but no Waterfowl stamp... I get a ticket.

This ain't the free-for-all y'all so badly want it to be. That's not how this works.

No.... he'd probably give you a ticket for hunting with the wrong size shot and for hunting with lead.

Common sense. This ain't the free-for-all y'all so badly want it to be. That's not how this works.

If you don't have enough common sense to not violate the law take up golf. Rules are rules. Y'all need to recognize that and get in line or get your ticket.