Yeah i wasn't really referring to the warning ticket, kinda typing out loud lol, there's a lot of responses telling people to take it to court, but that can be especially hard for someone when they may possibly hunt 2 or even 3 counties away from home, so they end up just paying, even when they may have possibly been wronged...

Yea, I know that. No court date. No fine. But with the carry it to court made me wonder if I had missed something. What I have seen, especially with GWs, it is used as a tool to drive home a teaching point when they feel education is best.

While guns and drinking may not be illegal, it's a really stupid idea. I'll be one of the first ones to pop a cold one when we get back to camp, but I have no desire to be in the woods with somebody drinking and holding a high power rifle.

How do you take a warning to court?

1. there is no law/reg that prohibits drinking while hunting. A case could be made for reckless endangerment IF you are drunk and doing something reckless with a firearm.

2. there is no law prohibiting having a fully loaded long gun in/on any vehicle.( Bham PD does not know this and may arrest you for "having a gun".....)
other than Bham you can lay a fully loaded rifle on the dash and drive thru Montgomery legally. You can drive all over yer land with it there. You can drive around the club likewise. GW tells you it is illegal TELL HIM TO SHOW YOU THE LAW/REG. It doesn't exist.

3. It is illegal to hunt with the aid of a motor vehicle. It used to be enforced all around, no sitting on/in while hunting. That changed around 1985-1990, allowing you to park on the gas line, engine running while hunting. (kind of like the "salt is legal" enforcement. If you are driving around a big pasture looking for deer, stopping and glassing, sticking gun out the window to look, you could be arrested for hunting from a motor vehicle.

Shooting from a public road from the vehicle could get you a public road ticket, motor vehicle ticket, permit ticket (if on someone else land with no permission).

I once had a new officer call me to the scene of his traffic stop because a woman refused to sign a Written Warning for a traffic violation. She was adamant she wouldn't sign it. After I explained to her that the warning has no repercussions and won't go on her record but if she wanted to fight it, I would be happy to direct the officer to write a citation that will go on her record if she was found guilty by a judge if she chose to contest it. I further explained the consequences of not signing the citation and that it was not an admission of guilt by just an assurance that she would either take care of the ticket or be in court on the specified date. She decided to take the warning.

Let me be the first to say, if you go open my cooler looking for something and find beer, we are both grabbing at least one and drinking it.

I don't care if you are on the clock.

GW’s need to remember that not every hunter is an outlaw.

I bet more than 50% are.

So one out every two people who post here is an outlaw?

So one out every two people who post here is an outlaw?

To be an Aldeer Outlaw, does one simply have to break 1 law....just 1 time? Or is there a minimum number of laws broken, or a frequency, that is required to be labeled an Aldeer Outlaw? Does that label include a special window decal besides the regular sticker?

When I grew up in a three county area we had GW Tyson in Dallas (enough said), Brooks in Autauga (arrested for gill netting along with other game and fish violations), and Pasqually in Lowndes (arrested for cattle rustling).