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Ever Call the Game Warden on someone?
Captplaid
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Thinking about it..... Not because it's morally wrong.... More out of spite.
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Spite is a dangerous emotion. Karma usually catches up with the turds…no action on your part required.
Yes, on my dad’s old farm in Upstate New York . I heard a shot way before daylight so I went looking and found 4 hunters hiding behind a large Boulder next to our large hay field with a fawn with spots on it yet. Dad went to the house and called the game warden while I kept a gun on the poachers till the warden showed up. He arrested all 4 and confiscated the deer. They forfeited all their guns, 1500.00 in fines each for 3 of them and the shooter was fined 3500.00 and loss of hunting privileges for 5 years. The judge let them keep their truck and told them to never come back again.
Now days you would probably be pretty lucky to get through to a live human on the phone after being put on hold for an hour and having to listen to crappy music!
Not for 'spite' but for trespassing. Whole van full of Amish unloaded at the end of the public road planning to 'push' deer onto another property where they actually had permission to hunt. Didn't work out so well for them. Half didn't have the required orange vest/hat. Some had resident tags but were from Iowa. Some had no tag at all. Some were carrying shotguns claiming to be 'bird hunting' but the magazines weren't plugged so they got tickets for that, too. Even the driver of the van got a ticket for not having proper licensed/insured vehicle.
Grouch Attack said it took the bunny cop 2 hours to write up all the violations and send them away.
No. You can't reach one here anyway. The one time I tried to report the theft of a deer stand it took a week just for someone from the capital office to call me to take a report over the phone and they were way less than interested in doing so. Why the county sheriff office can't handle things like this is curious. All hunting issue are to be handled by the DNR and they don't care.
Yes, it was many years ago. I was walking out on my property. I have trails I use for logging. It had snowed a bit the day before. I was walking the trails on a Sunday. At one point the trail splits. I notice some blood and drag marks.
Found that someone had a stand, without permission and must have gotten a deer and dragged it out to a friends house down the road.
I walked further up the trail and notice more blood and it is going off the trail. Followed the blood and there was another deer laying in a hollow covered in branches.
So this guy had an illegal stand and shot two deer on a Saturday, two deer is not allowed on one day. He tagged one on Saturday and was going to bring the other one to tag on Monday, it was cold enough for deer to be fine until then.
I called Game Warden and he tracked the guy to the friends house in the snow. Warden found the guy and confiscated his gun, boots and deer for evidence.
Never heard final outcome of his case.
I let plenty of folks hunt my property. I only ask them to do one thing and that is ask me so that I know who is on my property.
I have no patience or sympathy if you cannot follow the laws.
WHATS the issue? If it’s an illegal then yes it and
Only once, never again. I was on a state stocked trout stream late one evening. I came upon several young men with dip nets and no fishing poles. I drove to where I could get cell service and called the sheriffs office. The dispatcher said the state game warden went off duty at 4:00 pm and to leave a call back number. They wouldn’t even send a deputy for a drive by.
This was in a neighboring county.
Never again.
My SIL parked his truck legally on the side of a road next to a state hunting area, then hunted for a couple of hours. When he returned, he found 2 rifled slug holes in the truck cap; the hunter who mistook the truck for a deer was waiting for him, to apologize & pay him for a new cap. My SIL said, "fine, but we need to go down to the game warden's cabin to report this". The other hunter met him there, & the warden filled out a report. When the other hunter asked for his hunting license to be returned, the warden said, "Nope, you're done for the season."
Neal
When I was serving at Ft. Knox I worked with a Captain who was also a Game Warden.
One day he came in late and explained he had some paperwork to file before he could come to the office.
Seems he was out in the woods that morning and caught a guy with a bow and broadhead at full draw looking at a deer at close range. He cocked his .45 and ordered the guy not to move until the deer was gone.
Cost the guy his gear and pickup. Out of season, not supposed to be on Ft. Knox, etc. Not a smart move.
My dad and I got a late start deer hunting one morning and as we were driving along we came upon a fella covered in blood. He waved us down and asked if we could help him drag a trophy mule deer to the road. We agreed to help and he led us to where his 'mule deer' was... Turns out his trophy mule deer was beautiful 6 point bull elk. Dad said "we aren't helping you with that! That's an elk!" This guy turned 7 shades of red and went into a tirade. "That's a mule deer! I know a mule deer when I see one!" Dad just shook his head and we made our way back to our truck. We hadn't gone 200 yards when here comes the state bunny cop so we flagged him down and told him he should go get a look at the 'trophy mule deer'. LOL!
One of my buddies had some trespassers hunting his property and called the game warden.He told the game warden to scold and put some fear in them but dont write any tickets.He was told that if they couldnt write tickets they were not going to do anything.In other words no money=no law enforcement.
Had a game warden call me when two idiots tried to check my mule in as a deer
Poor mule.
We have a Game Warden that covers two counties.
I have him his number, he has mine.
I live on the edge of a State Park. So, if I, or family member, shoot a deer, and it jumps the fence back into the park, I call him.
He will want to see one speck of blood on my side of the fence, and all is good. He'll help me drag it out.
He's called before, asking if he could watch the local going on's from my property.
I have no problems with him doing that, as I've let him know.
I have no use for poachers
Talked to a game warden years ago- like back in the 1980s- and he said the TIP* hotline was mostly one poacher turning in another to cut down on competition.
*TIP=Turn In Poachers
Years ago I saw a biplane flying low & slow over my property with the engine cranked up. He made several passes until a herd crossed the road & WWIII broke out. I called DGIF as it's illegal to herd dear with a motorized vehicle. They didn't understand that a plane was motorized like an ATV. So I "mentioned" it to several pilot friends & it never happened again.
I have had a lot of gear stolen. Traps, stands, cameras. Report it all but never hear a word.
The boys in brown don't have a very good reputation in south dakota.