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are too tough on baiting regs?

should know more about agricultural practices?

should be more lenient on legal shooting hours?

should hold more public seminars or educational classes to teach us the laws and regs?

should write more tickets because since we're in the field hunting, we are supposed to already know the laws and regs?

should get in the schools more to teach kids about hunting and fishing?

are too tough on spotlighters?

are too lenient on poachers?

should write more tickets for littering?

are too lazy?

are too serious about their jobs?

should get out in the field more to catch folks in the act?

should stay home on the couch more so you won't get caught in the act?

Just wondering...
Wingman

Where's the category for "One of the most under-appreciated aspects of wildlife conservation and the outdoor heritage"?

mottlet

They have a prettty tough job to do. You have good ones and not so good ones just like every other work place. When a police officer pulls you over for speeding they don't know whether you have a gun or not a GW knows you have a gun and I think that is the most dangerous aspect of the job.

I wish they would go in the schools and share their love for the outdoors with younger children, after all they are the future of hunting and our heritage.

Wingman, law enforcement officers are much like educators, especially administrators. We get paid for our discretion and judgement. If it was all about blackline rules, a bunch of trained monkeys could do all of our jobs. Game wardens earn their meagher pay checks by using good sense and a thorough knowledge of the laws of conservation. They also had better have a great sense of humor...that may be the only thing that will get them through some of the stuff that goes on out there! Is this discussion going anywhere in particular?

I really respect someone who gives up the majority of their hunting opportunities to protcet mine.

You couldn't give me that job for $100k/yr.. Most everybody you deal with is armed, and it seems to be a thankless job. I've got a buddy who is a CO over here in the hills and he told me that the only thing good about the job is all the state benefits and the slow time in the summer. But when fall rolls around, it's a**holes and elbows............good luck man............

Wingman, you don't mind stirring the poo do you ?

I hold unlimited respect for the job they do. I can't judge them because I have never walked in their shoes.

As with everything there are good and bad. I believe the majority are good.

a Game Warden

This is not exactly a job. its a way of life for these people, from dove season to turkey season they never quit, it daylight till dawn every day. its a hard life and it takes a specail kind of person to do this job. they are law enforcement officers just like policeman. they save lives and better our lives, and our chances in the field.

i give two thumbs up to all gamewardens!

Absolutely, there are good ones and sorry ones. Unfortunately, the two I know best, always ride in shiny new trucks with a new ATV in the back, and I've never seen anything muddy....EVER!!! I mean, their trucks and ATVs never have a speck of dust on them.....EVER!!! How can that be, if they're out there in the boonies, doing their job??!!! Oh, I forgot, they never leave the hiway, or the coffee shop!!!

hey dedux aint you ever seen decoy's before!!!! those GM's aer the cagey ones. Now why would a GM travel deep into some hardwood stand or ride a boat in 30 degree water to check on hunters. The smart ones wait were most of the hunters come to when finishing the hunt. So you see your falling for decoy's not the real GM's those are the fella's to your right that are dressed just like you until they pull the badges

Is this discussion going anywhere in particular?

Good answers, guys. Just testing the water with my big toe.

I wish they would go in the schools and share their love for the outdoors with younger children, after all they are the future of hunting and our heritage.

Torch, you read my mind. The NEXT generation is the key.

Go24, not stirring, just simmering

Wingman

My answer to the baiting topic is from what i know and have heard from different game wardens is that baiting can lead to several problems. One in particular is that it can help the spread of diseases among animals....(for example feeding deer corn).....this causes diffenet animals to come together in one place and the diseases have a much better chance of spreading but then one might ask, what about when one plants corn....does this not lead to the same outcome....that i do not know, but what i do know is that there is a reason for not being able to bait legally, the answer, I am not sure of but yes I do respect game wardens in all the hard work they do, and we are fortunate to have the opportunity to just hunt in this great state!!
Again, that is just my 2 cents worth!

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they are wrong all time..... if you don't believe me just come to court and hear the excuses.......haha..... as long as i'm legal----------they are right.............

judge jb