Would you be offended?

[Comanchehunter]

I've learned that you don't get on the GW's bad side. Show them respect, treat them nice, and give them no reason to come back and check you again. That is the reason, as the property owner, I would be asking. Yes, it may be their ticket, but it is my reputation and I'm the one that will have to deal with the GW each time we are out hunting. I say ask away. I even like the liability release form for those "distant" friends you just don't know that well. Your place, your rules. Someone gives me a chance to hunt their land I'm going to ask what I can do to return the favor. Showing a licences is nothing.

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This, 100%. Especially the game warden aspect.


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[oktx]

Because, if the GW does show up at your property and finds folks hunting without a license, that location has now been placed on his radar as having been an offender location before. You can bet you will see him more often if he shows up and finds offenses.
I'm a LEO and you can rest assured that my known previous offenders get checked more frequently than other folks.

If they are old enough to have a license they should know. I will give a pass to someone who is new to hunting and may not know. If you ( land owner) are legal who cares if they show up? Right?

[Warrant]

better safe than sorry

[boomerball]

If you asked if I had my license, no problem. If you then asked to show it to you, I don't know. Now you're saying you think I'm lying to you.

Kind a my feeling on it.

Now if you approached it the right way I wouldnt care. Something like "everyone double check your liscence" and pulled your own out at that time, and throw in a little story of how someone forgot theirs once so you just double check every time blah blah blah then i wouldn't really care. Done like that I might laugh it off as maybe it's a little quirky, but then have no issue obliging

[Mertzon Man]

I would be ok with it, that's what I would do if I'm taking someone hunting.

[Pullersboy]

If they are old enough to have a license they should know. I will give a pass to someone who is new to hunting and may not know. If you ( land owner) are legal who cares if they show up? Right?

Yes, of course we're legal. But who likes getting checked? Or having a reputation of non-compliance for that matter. I'm legal, but I don't know EVERYTHING about the law. I could make a mistake just like anyone else. I certainly don't want the GW breathing down my neck and actively looking for mistakes made on my place because he caught some that's not even on my lease without a license one time. Am I going to inspect their license? No; Unless they've never hunted before. If they hunt and I know it, I will ask if they have it with them.

[JP135]

I would have no problems with that at all. Being the boat and property owner, you have legal exposure. Anybody getting upset at that might not be worth hunting or fishing with.

[BetramHunter]

Let's turn it around. I'll answer your question with a question!!
If they say no, or not yet, but will, Would you still take them?
Or, if you ask in advance and they say they will have it by that day you go, and you get there on the day off, whether it be the lake or the lease and they tell you they forgot, you gonna turn around and go home, or are you gonna hunt or fish??

Great questions!
1. I would not take them if they said no
2. I have learned to have people meet me there in their own vehicle so that they will be the ones turning around or going to Academy at the last minute to get their licence.

[Bucksaw]

Not at all. I just finished a conversation with my lease owner about her nephews hunting hogs on the property. I don't even own the property, she does, but I asked her if they had licenses.

[Brute Killer]

I wouldn't be offended.
No reason to be.

[cj7zrcool]

I get invited on corporate hunting/fishing events and am ALWAYS asked to provide my license. It's nothing to be offended about.

[Tmag]

Would not offend me, I ask so I can be sure my day isn't ruined over something that simple if the Game Warden visits us.

[mudcatz71]

Ask away. A lot of times it a reminder anyway. We always make sure everybody is legal before offshore trips in September. Must fishing buddies don't dove hunt and don't think about lic expiring from one fishing weekend to the next. Throw old lic away is another good pointer. Had a buddy tag a doe with last years lic and luckily I caught it at camp. Never got a visit that trip bud would of looked bad if we did. I promise it was a accident but still illegal.

[mudcatz71]

I'm not really sure the point of asking. Isn't the individual's responsibility and therefore their fine if they get caught? I'm just not seeing where it would adversely affect a landowner or boat owner. Maybe I am blind.

But no, I would not be offended.

If I thought Enough of a person to allow them to harvest a nice buck off my property and they did and buck got confinscated by the state due to them ignoring the fact that they had to have a lic I would be po'ed!

[dfkoon]

When I invite in the past and they ask what they can bring I just say make sure you have your license. Leaving town I'll ask if they remembered it. Never asked to see it.