Comments on: Beware of Double-Edged Swords

By: Shire-man

Shire-man — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 18:44:00 +0000

The biggest chilling effect for me was never the pre-dawn hikes, the expense or the weather. It was always the bureaucracy and the fallible agents tasked with enforcing it.

I always wondered if these types of shows and those survival shows where they trap and kill had all their i’s dotted and t’s crossed and whose job it was to make sure. The hosts? The producers? The network lawyers? The contestants?

By: jwtaylor

jwtaylor — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 18:32:17 +0000

In reply to hawkeye.

If I see an interaction between a game warden, especially Federal fish and game, and a hunter, I’m going to assume the hunter is in the right. I watched a game warden drive up and honk to run the deer off of a active hunt because he thought it was out of season, only to discover when he got to the blind that it was a father and son on a youth hunting season day.
But the worst was when I was on a big corporate dove hunt and after a volley one of the guys walked out and grabbed one of the birds and put it in his pile and grabbed another one of the dove and put it into the pile of the guy next to him. A federal Fish and Game Warden walked out and told him that he had put the bird he shot in the other guy’s pile and bird that the other guy shot in his pile, fined him and revoked his license. Both white winged dove.
Conversely, there have been many times that I’ve watched active poaching take place and called the game warden only for nothing to ever come of it.

By: Darkman

Darkman — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 18:01:20 +0000

I’ve never had much interest in hunting shows anyway. I was taking game long before these so called experts were even born with far less technology and a success rate that was life depending. There is nothing I need to learn that I don’t already know about putting food on the table anyway. I still do it with some of the same guns I used decades ago without a fancy scope, range finder or the latest gadget hot off the shelf. Unfortunately the need for fame drives people like this to look the other way when it comes to hunting regs which only makes it harder for those of us who do follow the laws. It’s happened in almost every state over the last decade where these clowns flaunt the laws for likes and $$$ giving the rest of the hunting public and industry a bad name. An industry along with hunters that supports animal and land conservation with over $2,000,000,000 annually. So I have no sympathy for criminals like this. In fact they should be locked away from society no different than any other felon and as a disgrace to the hunting world.

By: hawkeye

hawkeye — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 17:14:31 +0000

Granted that some regulations can be convoluted, but as hunters and/or anglers, we oughta know the regs at least as well as the game warden, because we are the ones who stand to lose.