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This brings up the plinking/carrying a gun during hunting season conflict between the laws.
If we are a free society with a RKBA then we have the right to be in the woods with a gun regardless of what hunting season it is. The argument of prima facia evidence of hunting just because you're carrying is a fallacy. People who have a right to carry arms have a right to carry them. Especially on public property. (yes, this defense could lead to a conviction of hunting w/o a license or during the wrong season but that's not the topic)
Woods ettiquette would sort of suggest that you find someplace where others go to shoot and shoot there. Usually those places are not frequented by hunters, have safe backdrops, and are well known as areas where plinking is done. Your wildlife officer should have pointed out to you where such a place nearby is/was.
Not because what you were doing is illegal, but rather because what you were doing could have been dangerous and could have been interfereing with the hunters in the area and with the officer being able to effectively monitor the area he was assigned to.
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