I didn't read any of the replies so sorry if this has been said but I bet very few look on any social media to try and find violations, but rather are turned on to violations by internet weasels who can't mind their own business. "Bob said on facebook he shot an elephant and three mice. I know the limit is 2 mice!!! , get him!"

DWC- Wasn't there a recent news story that Gov. Kristi had her administration reviewing South Dakota's "open fields" doctrine that allows COs to come search your property because they see (or claim they see) something from the road?

Maybe Swamp Wolf has more skeptical judges down in his parts of GA, but I suspect that most wildlife officers can get judges to sign off on most search warrant appliactions. And most of those search warrants are probably totally justified, but I bet some are fishing expeditions based on what an officer wants to believe. I have a friend that spent 6 months on this county's grand jury. They seldom denied the district attorney from getting indictments for whatever (this was way more than just wildlife crimes). A few times he told me the GJ stood up and pushed back on the DAs, but not very often.

Theres has been a misconception that wardens can look where they want when they want. No warrant nothin just go and look. Ive heard this for years. Dont be fooled.

This is turning out to be a good soap opera. Lets keep the stories rolling.

This is turning out to be a good soap opera. Lets keep the stories rolling.

The tool box was opened, as were door panels and headliner. Nothing illegal was found. He told me if he had to do it over he would of popped open the tool box, let him look and be on his way. He finally moved out of state.

Your cell phone camera typically includes metadata with the photo, called EXIF data, that can include a gps stamp of where the photo was taken. When you send the picture to someone or post it on the internet, this data is still in the file. You are sharing this data willingly. The govt is not intercepting it . You can remove the EXIF data but I just use a dedicated digital camera.

Did you know you can't sell bird nets on ebay...? Maybe illegal in some or most states, maybe some of those regs that aren't in the "book" but show up in administrative code that still can used to fine people. Stinking swallows try to make nests on my front porch brick columns most years, sometimes they're faster than me in building than I'm removing them. So, a few years back a robin built a nest in the angle of my downspout on the house and then later the swallow got a nest 100% done. The swallow nest came down by me in one piece and later after the robins fledged, I didn't see the need for that nest to stay up on my house, so it came down as well. Now I had two different birds nests and thought it might be a neat thing for someone to have so tried offering it on ebay. The ad got shot down several different ways so I figured that 1) there must be a lot of bunny huggers that think selling old annual bid nests is cruelty to the birds, and/or 2) various state or h*** maybe even the feds have "laws" against such, because these birds are migratory. Ok, bird nests became one with nature in the back yard somewhere.

Fast forward to this winter. Leaves have been off of the one smaller tree we have on the street edge and I hadn't noticed that there was a robin's nest in from 2020. So I pulled it out of the tree and lookie, there were still 2 whole eggs in left over from spring, seriously dried out I'm sure and one that had hatched or at least broke in two. I thought that would be a cool thing to give to a kindergarten or 1st grade teacher to show their students. So, I had it in my garage sitting around on a shelf for a couple of months. Towards the end of January, I had my sad coon cubbie incident that some may remember me posting about before I realized that the subject was one that couldn't be discussed. The state guys investigated the event, my cubbie and location were totally legit but the one officer just wanted to see my licenses in person and see me operate a bodygripper so he was coming out the next day. I saw that robin's nest sitting on the shelf and thought, "wow, maybe its verboten for me to have this bird nest and maybe if he saw it, he'd ticket me." So, that bird nest went away as well. That's where we are folks, worrying about a seasonal bird nests made by a tweeter that numbers in the what, hundreds of millions, and only lives probably about a year and half on average. And that's basically the benign administrative state.

Boco, you still know all the wildlife laws 100% that you fall under...?