Kansas Duck/Goose hunting trip

[johnpaul]

Did they let y'all hunt any of the baited ponds?

Heard they got busted a month or so ago after like a 2 year long investigation by the feds?

[MarkV]

Did they let y'all hunt any of the baited ponds?

Heard they got busted a month or so ago after like a 2 year long investigation by the feds?

I read that before hand but one of the guys that went with us was there when the feds came. They were there for hours going through everyone's phones and cameras and they couldn't leave for hours. But I am pretty sure they didn't have anything on them. The only thing they got onto them for was not tagging birds in the field, i.e. "party hunting" which most of us do but is illegal. So we had to claim the birds we thought we shot and when you hit your limit you were done and we had to make sure our own birds had a tag attached to all of them. But you would think if it was a 2 year investigation with that many feds involved, people would have gone to jail or they would have been shut down had they found anything.

[ultrastealth]

I read that before hand but one of the guys that went with us was there when the feds came. They were there for hours going through everyone's phones and cameras and they couldn't leave for hours. But I am pretty sure they didn't have anything on them. The only thing they got onto them for was not tagging birds in the field, i.e. "party hunting" which most of us do but is illegal. So we had to claim the birds we thought we shot and when you hit your limit you were done and we had to make sure our own birds had a tag attached to all of them. But you would think if it was a 2 year investigation with that many feds involved, people would have gone to jail or they would have been shut down had they found anything.

Federal Game Wardens are a whole different animal. My son (17) was hunting near Freeport earlier this season, and him and his buddy were checked by two federal wardens. They only had 3 teal, but the wardens told them they saw them down some shovelers and not attempt to recover them. My son told him that it didn't happen, and the wardens told a couple more lies just to try to get them to bite and self incriminate themselves. It was completely uncalled for, and, had they gotten those warden's names, I would have had words with their supervisor. Another friend of mine's father was sited by a federal warden in Louisiana for "attempting to exceed the limit." All he did was sit in his blind after taking his limit and practice calling to ducks and enjoying watching them decoy. His gun was unloaded and the warden had verified this. I've never had an unfriendly encounter with a state warden, but every encounter that I've had with federal wardens was tense and adversarial. It shouldn't be that way.

[Jamesl]

dang! congrats on all the birds!

[byler11]

Federal Game Wardens are a whole different animal. My son (17) was hunting near Freeport earlier this season, and him and his buddy were checked by two federal wardens. They only had 3 teal, but the wardens told them they saw them down some shovelers and not attempt to recover them. My son told him that it didn't happen, and the wardens told a couple more lies just to try to get them to bite and self incriminate themselves. It was completely uncalled for, and, had they gotten those warden's names, I would have had words with their supervisor. Another friend of mine's father was sited by a federal warden in Louisiana for "attempting to exceed the limit." All he did was sit in his blind after taking his limit and practice calling to ducks and enjoying watching them decoy. His gun was unloaded and the warden had verified this. I've never had an unfriendly encounter with a state warden, but every encounter that I've had with federal wardens was tense and adversarial. It shouldn't be that way.

X2 on the feds