I’m not a fan of game wardens. My last interaction involved myself, a game warden, and my 7 year old son. I was spoken to like I was a criminal, in front of my son. If I had been breaking laws it would have been one thing, but I wasn’t.

I've never had an interaction with a game warden.....

Maybe you’re just lucky swamp wolf! I’ll have to start wearing green jeans and a grey button down and see if they leave me alone too. Is that the camoflauge you used to keep them away? Don’t think I can get them to throw me a retirement party even if I camo myself for 30 years

I have had always good encounters with the Game Wardens in multiple states. They have a job to do.

X2. All my experiences have been positive. I was even invited to the retirement of one of my best ones!

"Lord I apologize fer that"

LoL

All the officers I've met in 40+years have been courteous except one.

I don't know why anyone would want to be a game warden.
No one is ever happy to see you.
Almost everyone lies to you even if it doesn't benefit them. This is the one thing which would wear me thin quick.

Turn on CNN and toughen yourself up! lol

Arn't you a game warden?

HIP certifications? I've filled out HIP reports before but can't recall having any certifications to carry around? I bought my duck stamp at the post office the other day and there was no HIP form to even fill out.

In 24 years of pheasant/turkey/coyote hunting , fishing and trapping, I have never been checked by a warden. We were spotlighting (no gun-all legal with a video camera) in high school and got stopped one time. Guy was ok i guess. Seemed more mad that we werent breaking the law than anything.

Shh! Don't tell anyone.

Just kidding. I retired June 1st, 2022.

The HIP questionnaire used to be done at the time you bought your regular hunting license. Now its done online and you are given a number to write on your licencse to show you did it. (At least that's hoe Iowa does it.) You only have to bother with HIP if you are going to hunt migratory birds. Otherwise you can skip it.

I've only ever had 2 interactions with Game Wardens. Both times they were called on me. The first time I was a teenager and someone found a dead cat in an area they knew I was trapping and called the law. GW asked me if I'd killed the cat. I said nope. He said okay, have a good day and just don't kill any cats, and went on his way.

Second time we had just moved down here and had a trap set on our driveway (which is an easement). Our great new neighbor showed up at our door, GW in tow. That GW irked me, but only because he had NO IDEA of what the laws were. I knew them better than him and I'd only lived here for 2 months, lol. He said, "You can't be trapping now, it's not trapping season." I said "trapping season is year around for fox and coyote, which is what we're trapping." He said, "Well, I don't know about that" to which I replied, "Well I do. I can show you in the regulation book if you would like?" To which he replied, "No no, you don't need to do that" and then switched to the fact that having an easement on a driveway doesn't give you the right to trap it. Well, he didn't cite us, but he did try to take off with our trap in his truck yet until Pete flagged him down, lol. But seriously, shouldn't you at LEAST know the season dates you're supposed to enforce???

In some states that have no season on predators, there are legal methods of take that may be restricted by dates. In other words, you might be able to shoot coyotes year round but only trap them when coon trapping season is open etc.