Game Wardens

they had a check point setup outside of Akron, CO

There was a Colorado checkpoint setup outside of Akron Colorado on highway 34 - the main route to that part of Kansas.. been a long time since I have heard of those - pulled everyone over to check....
 
kansasbrittany said:
About half way through the license check he says sternly "Ok, now who shot the hen?" Everyone kinda looked up with a blank look on their faces and he said, "I'm just kidding". We all checked out okay, though there was one guy who'd forgot to sign his license, the game warden told him to get it signed and let us go.
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I would guess I know who that was, and if so, he is a great guy and good game warden.
 
I've yet to be checked in KS. I have talked with wardens in town, at breakfast or the gas station. Have had them ask how we're doing, or if we're seeing the birds. Always appeared friendly and made me feel welcome.
I can't say the same for CO.
 
Checked Last Year

I got checked last year when someone called in that hunters were on posted land. I had written permission so it was no problem.
 
My first post!

Been reading forum for a while, just registered. I've been stopped twice. First was a walk in hunting area, probably thought I was nuts for hunting by myself without a dog. Checked license, gave me a WIHA survey to fill out and gave me a couple of tips and directions to another spot.

Second time, stopped as I was driving out of public land after having just taken my first turkey. Asked a couple of questions, checked the license and asked to see the bird. He got real excited and went back to truck for his tape measure. Since it was my first bird, I field dressed it, but didn't realize that the spurs were 1 1/2 inches. Said it was bigger than his best bird. Shook my hand and said well done.

Heading out today for NC Kansas after work, can't wait. This post reminded me to double check my paperwork!
 
The only time we have been checked was when our group had 6 deer hanging from a system. Warden said he had never seen anything like that before.
I cant remember but I think the reason he was even out there was because someone reported a white pick-up with TX tags road hunting. That wasnt a good for me because at the time I was living in texas and I drive a white pick up.
 
BritChaser said:
I got checked last year when someone called in that hunters were on posted land. I had written permission so it was no problem.
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OK, I've gotta ask. What does a game warden normally do in this situation? Since trespassing is generally considered a civil offense, do game wardens just turn trespassing complaints over to the local Sheriff's Dept.? Do they revoke hunting licences on the spot? What generally happens when trespassing's been established?
 
JMBZ71 said:
OK, I've gotta ask. What does a game warden normally do in this situation? Since trespassing is generally considered a civil offense, do game wardens just turn trespassing complaints over to the local Sheriff's Dept.? Do they revoke hunting licences on the spot? What generally happens when trespassing's been established?
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I don't have an answer for you, but do have some experience many years ago with a trespassing problem on our land. I had it posted "No Hunting", but the signs were being ignored and ran over in some cases. I was getting pretty frustrated and went to KDWP. At that time and it may be the same now, they told me that posting that way or "No Trespassing" would require that I press charges in a court action. If I were to post, "Hunting by Written Permission Only", the game warden was then authorized to check for written permission slips and if not produced KDWP would take care of pressing charges against the violators. The game warden agreed to hide on my property on Sunday morning, the usual time of the trespass and see what happen. No one showed up that Sunday or any Sundays thereafter, which leads me to believe that the word was put out on the street to stay off Byrd property, which was fine with me. I was not wanting to catch trespassers, I was wanting the trespass to stop and it has.(knock on wood).

Kansas now has the "purple paint" regulation, which has the same effect and force as the "Hunting by Written Permission Only", which is very nice for a landowner like me to use.
 
I got checked for the first time ever in Kansas. I have been hunting Kansas for 30 years and this was the first time to be checked. The Warden stared out as a Pr*%# but then he got better when he figured out we weren't the people he was looking for.
 
M. R. Byrd said:
I don't have an answer for you, but do have some experience many years ago with a trespassing problem on our land. I had it posted "No Hunting", but the signs were being ignored and ran over in some cases. I was getting pretty frustrated and went to KDWP. At that time and it may be the same now, they told me that posting that way or "No Trespassing" would require that I press charges in a court action. If I were to post, "Hunting by Written Permission Only", the game warden was then authorized to check for written permission slips and if not produced KDWP would take care of pressing charges against the violators. The game warden agreed to hide on my property on Sunday morning, the usual time of the trespass and see what happen. No one showed up that Sunday or any Sundays thereafter, which leads me to believe that the word was put out on the street to stay off Byrd property, which was fine with me. I was not wanting to catch trespassers, I was wanting the trespass to stop and it has.(knock on wood).

Kansas now has the "purple paint" regulation, which has the same effect and force as the "Hunting by Written Permission Only", which is very nice for a landowner like me to use.
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Thanks M.R.

It's just that I hear guys say... "This section's in the middle of nowhere... it's not posted... the land owner doesn't want to be bothered... if he had a problem with guys hunting it, he'd have it posted... it's probably owned by an absentee landowner you have no way of contacting...", etc., etc.

I won't go in without permission from the landowner but I know some guys use the above rationalizations. So I was just wondering what game wardens do in these situations when they come across them (which they surely do).
 
texasbirdhunter said:
I got checked for the first time ever in Kansas. I have been hunting Kansas for 30 years and this was the first time to be checked. The Warden stared out as a Pr*%# but then he got better when he figured out we weren't the people he was looking for.
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What part of the state were you hunting in?
 
Some of us seem to be unhappy about not being checked? I guess it's just human nature, after spending good money to buy a license we deserve to get checked, feel kinda cheated if after a while you don't. I have been checked in Kansas once in 38 years. Three times in Nebraska in 35 years. Oddly, never in Missouri in 40 years.
 
Only ever been checked twice and both times in Alaska.

Once I was Salmon fishing next to the un-uniformed guy and carrying on a conversation with him for about an hour. I had no clue he was Fish & Game until he was ready to leave and sat the two guys fishing up river from us down and wrote them for foul hooking and keeping Salmon. I guess I can't say he "checked" me by the book cuz he never even asked for my license.

Another time on a drop off hunt in the Alaska Range I was camped out with my packed up Caribou and the Officer landed on the ridge above me. I knew he'd be hiking down so I put on some coffee when I heard him land. He checked me, drank a cup of coffee, shot the breeze, and left.

I guess another time I was checked I was Caribou hunting off of the haul road far north of Fairbanks and you have to be 5 miles from the road. This was before GPS technology and the F&G Officer would fly over the road, hit his stop watch, fly to you, do his calculation and determine your distance. If you were good to go he'd give a wing wave and depart, no good he'd land.

Never been checked in the lower 48.
 
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JMBZ71 said:
Thanks M.R.

It's just that I hear guys say... "This section's in the middle of nowhere... it's not posted... the land owner doesn't want to be bothered... if he had a problem with guys hunting it, he'd have it posted... it's probably owned by an absentee landowner you have no way of contacting...", etc., etc.

I won't go in without permission from the landowner but I know some guys use the above rationalizations. So I was just wondering what game wardens do in these situations when they come across them (which they surely do).
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In Colorado, private land does not need to be posted and the burden lies soley on the hunter to know where he or she is at!!!! If land owner presses charges you lose your hunting priveledges for 1-3 years!!
 
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