Most of mine was illegal , damn a orange hat . Lol

I had a brand new rookie Game Warden with me one day. We were investigating a theft of a der from a processor in Jefferson Co. We had a suspect and finally got an addy on him. We arrived at his residence and began to question him. EVERY SINGLE WORD HE SAID WAS A BLATANT LIE. And he changed the lies every ten minutes when I would question his girlfriend. My rookie said he couldn't believe that folks would just outright lie to us like this. I told him to remember that most everyone lied when questioned. Trick was to cypher thru the lying. LOL

We finally got the truth, arrested him and convicted him of theft.

Today's number is 201,073.

Still increasing...

...and I ain't lyin'...

There’s plenty of ppl out there who will keep entering deer as long as they can just to see if they can.

Are they so ignorant that they don't understand how easy it would be to follow up on them if they weren't legitimate recorded kills?

Makes zero sense to me...

They can’t prove or disprove anyone killed a deer by GC alone.

LE has brought it on themselves. With few exceptions every time I’ve had to talk to police or GW they come with an attitude. Whatever I can say to make them go away faster. When you need help they will not do anything.

I've never had a issue with a game warden. I've got cell numbers on speed dial for all 3 GW's in the 3 different counties I hunt. Took the time to meet them and introduce myself years ago, always say hello when I see them in town or waive when I pass them on the road. They've always been helpful and responsive, anytime I've had an issue or needed help from them on something. Lot of their attitude is dictated by your attitude.

Sometimes, yes. I have had that same relationship with one GW. Unfortunately that is not always the case. I will not go into any more specifics than that on an open forum. pm me if you would like to know more.

Edited due to not wanting to piss off this fine LEO. I still hunt in his jurisdiction and may run into him again.

Guess I'm wrong.
If you break it down like you did on everything, I guess you might get a few more illegal kills than I thought.

I grew up hunting in Green county in the 70’s through mid 90’s. Club house was next to the paved road with fields all along the road, and the road divided the property. In turkey season, at first day break, I would step away from the club and stand on side of the road waiting for a bird to sound off on one side of the road or the other. On several occasions while standing there in the dark I would here a vehicle coming slowly down the road. Once in sight I watched them spotlighting the fields all the way down. This was a regular occurrence on Green county. And pay attention that this occurred on more than one occasion during TURKEY season. Outlaws are outlaws all year, Not just hunting season. Those deer and turkey numbers I fear are far higher than anyone knows. Folks watch a good buck all summer and then shoot him 1 week before season opens. Happens.

How many tickets for road hunting do the game wardens write each season?.....Is there somewhere you can see it on a year by year basis?.....It would probably make for a nice graph…..If road hunting was really bad then you would think that folks would be wearing out those robot decoys…..

There's a grand total of, plus or minus 60 game wardens, depending on the day and time, patrolling 50,000 square miles of Alabama real estate. Thats 835 square miles or 535,000 acres, per GW. You got any idea how much land that is for one person to cover and be responsible for. Tickets cannot be used as a determining factor as to how many are poaching, road hunting, hunting without a license, spotlighting, killing 2 bucks a day, killing over 3 per season, hunting out of season, anything illegal.

well , they got all this free time since we got baiting permits what are they doing with it . lol

Thanks abolt. I assumed the severe shortage of needed game wardens to patrol the state was a familiar subject.
To operate a robot buck takes time and persistence. Alabama has no way in the world to do such a thing on a scale that’s needed.
Where I hunt now has one warden covering 3 counties. Which is why bama poachers do what they do. Almost no worry of being caught unless the warden is tipped off.

201123 on fourth day past seasons end.

if I remember correctly Al has slots for 130 or so GWs, two per county except a couple counties have three, NOT 60. I don't know how many slots are currently filled, and how many vacancies.

I personally made a LOT of night hunting and daytime road hunting arrests with decoys....until the state decided to seize our decoys that were privately donated and make em state property. I got rid of mine and quit using decoys.

I’ve had one bad run in with a game warden out of 1k probably. I wish we had enough to put a dent in the illegal kills. My wife’s uncle was a Warden in Winston County for years and he trained Ernie who’s there now. Ernie has been extremely helpful in every interaction I’ve had with him.

theres a ex warden that lives just up the road from me that makes them or did any way .
im guessing he still does



i remember back when was active he had a guy kill a deer in his front yard . he got him stopped in front of our house . he was half dressed but he got the guy .