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Tomas · January 26, 2011, 01:43 PM

A lot of game wardens are against hunting and/or don't like hunters. We can't expect them to 'understand'.

Art's right, comply and don't argue...would you go off on a state trooper?

Probably not - game wardens are cops, plain and simple.

One of the guys I hunt with shot a bull elk by mistake during cow season. As we meekly surveyed the scene, figuring we were in big trouble (well, he was, I didn't shoot it), we pulled out the regs. The 'bull' had two horns that were 6 or 8 inches long (can't remember exactly) which, when you figure brown terrain, brown horns, elk running at full bore, it's no wonder he didn't see them, and regs said it was legal to take a bull with horns that length during the anterless season. We lucked out, but if those horns had been a couple inches longer, I'm not sure if a warden would have been too understanding, or sympathetic. We went in and reported it anyway, but were lucky those boogers were short.

January 26, 2011, 01:43 PM	#18
Tomas Senior Member Join Date: May 9, 1999 Location: Blue State Posts: 441	A lot of game wardens are against hunting and/or don't like hunters. We can't expect them to 'understand'. Art's right, comply and don't argue...would you go off on a state trooper? Probably not - game wardens are cops, plain and simple. One of the guys I hunt with shot a bull elk by mistake during cow season. As we meekly surveyed the scene, figuring we were in big trouble (well, he was, I didn't shoot it), we pulled out the regs. The 'bull' had two horns that were 6 or 8 inches long (can't remember exactly) which, when you figure brown terrain, brown horns, elk running at full bore, it's no wonder he didn't see them, and regs said it was legal to take a bull with horns that length during the anterless season. We lucked out, but if those horns had been a couple inches longer, I'm not sure if a warden would have been too understanding, or sympathetic. We went in and reported it anyway, but were lucky those boogers were short.