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I agree, the older one's used to tell me about the good spots and I even had one give me a ride one time when I got stuck and I had my gun in hand. You have no rights if you are not willing to protect them. I was opening my gate and as I turned the key on the lock, a young warren pop out of the bushes. He ask me if I had a gun and I asked him why, it not against the law to own one. He than asked me why I needed a gun and I pointed to his and said you have one. He then asked, If I mind if he search my truck and I said yes, I do mind and do not ask me anymore questions and my attorney's on speed dial and you can ask him all the questions you want. In the end we became friends and since then he looks after my place, but they need to understand they work for us and it would be better for everyone if they looked for the good instead of looking at every little thing you doing wrong.
Several years ago I hunted around Fallon NV, nice country to hunt on.

I gotta tell this one. 30+ years ago I went lion hunting with an old recently retired game warden in McGill NV. I really enjoyed the old guy. Since I was young and loved the outdoors I asked him how you go about becoming a warden. His response has never left my mind and I never pursued that career. " anymore it takes 4 years of college, It's amazing how much common sense a man can lose in 4 years of college.". I know a lot of college grads who didn't lose common sense. and some that did. But that statement does fit some younger wardens.

Always expect them to be lying. Last year I had a run in with a game warden over some regulation technical issues. I knew I was correct but he needed to discuss the issue with his supervisor, I trusted him on his word and didn't forcefully state my views. Turned out he lied repeatedly including in a voicemail on my cell phone. This resulted in charges filed against me. After spending 10 grand in attorney fees and other expenses I won acquittal in a jury trial. So lesson number one if there is a gray area in the regulations forcefully state your opinion as long as it takes. Trying to play nice guy will get you screwed.

Was fishing on the river one time, had a game warden whistle at me and motion for me to come over to where he was standing in the woods on the bank. I trolled over there to the bank grabbed my docking line and stepped out on the bank where he was standing. THE FIRST WORDS OUT OF HIS MOUTH WAS " DO YOU KNOW YOU ARE TRESSPASSING". Man did I light in to him with a tongue lashing. I was on a public waterway fishing till YOU called me over here! A few years later he slipped up on me turkey hunting in a location where the property boundary is not marked at all between public and private. He said I was tresspassing, I told him that I wasn't, we had a rather heated discussion again, this was an ongoing problem in that area, I told him if they mark the boundary he'd never catch me across it. I was told by another game warden that this guy was pursueing charges against me and that they were going to survey the location to prove I was tresspassing. I sure didn't trust him so I went back to see if he had marked the spot right or if maybe he cheated it in his favor. When I got there, there was crime scene tape at the exact location where he confronted me, boy I sweated that for a while, tresspassing with a firearm in Florida is a felony, but I never heard anything else about it but that some friends did see him down there with a geological survey crew. The friendlier GW told me years later that I was a little across the line, but they still haven't marked the boundary. Even though that one GW is a jerk maybe he's honest.