First of all, good luck hunting late season pressured public land birds by yourself. It doesn't work that well. Second, I've been hunting public land in Iowa with fairly good sized groups of 8-10 guys since 1997 and have been checked by wardens more than likely 50 or more times. They are always super nice, ask for license's, check for steel shot where required, ask how we're doing and usually offer up advice on where they're seeing or have heard of some good bird numbers. Not once have we been asked who has shot what or how many each guy has. Generally they don't even ask to look at the birds. I think the 75 hunters is probably quite a bit exaggerated, unless maybe it was some sort of get together fundraiser type thing maybe. Third it doesn't bother me one bit that I train 2 very good dogs year around and other people shoot birds off of them. Actually, it is quite rewarding when people in your group comment on how well they do. Also, in our group we usually have at least 8 dogs hunting. But, for the guy who works too much, kids make him too busy etc to have time for a bird dog, but really enjoys pheasant hunting. It's pretty cool for him to come out with his buddies and get some shooting. I honestly think this is kind of a ticky tacky gripe and I'm sure there are plenty of guys on both sides of the fence on this. But, I think if it was a huge issue they would probably do something about it.