More great advice: Don't Talk to them!. It is the law I have to answer fish and game and guiding related questions.

Nowadays, especially in El-Annoy, a traffic stop is really just "Trolling for Guns" ! "Do you have any Firearms, Atom Bombs, Hand Grenades or anything that will stick me? Then after you come back clean, it's "Have a nice day"! Unless of course you really did some bonehead thing.

That was intended as a pun...

Yessir. Or don't talk to em and make them more suspicious. Your choice.

Swamp Wolff here in MN the MN supreme Court has found the wardens can't look in your live well without permission, come into a fish house or deer stand without permission unless they have reasonable suspicion.

Actively hunting or fishing isn't reasonable suspicion.

Any how I can't say that I've had what I'd call negative interactions.

Well I don't take my trapping license with me if I ever get checked he can look it up.

I'm MN one can be fined for not having his license with. Can't say I've ever heard of anyone getting a fine maybe a warning.

I've never had bad dealings but I do believe some young wardens and federal park people today are not conservationists but rather preservationists. Some of them are clearly against hunting, fishing, or trapping.

Same. I also keep my gates locked and am not inviting them in.

Hah! Just get in your helicopter, fly the next ridge or two over and continue hunting. Two can play at that game.

Just tell em you left your hearing aids at home and cant hear a word they are saying.

Like that here in Georgia too. GWs don't have unlimited authority to search...as no other officers do. There are some circumstances that allow this without a warrant called exigent circumstances.

Unfortunately you are correct. I'm not sure of the direction that's gonna lead...

Here in Georgia it is a violation to not have your license on your person. But, in this electronic age, most have it on their phone, which is acceptable. If the person doesn't have it on person, GWs here in Georgia can look em up on phone or truck computer.

I did that a lot...no problems. Unless the person told me he intentionally left at home so I can just "look it up." That snap can tell the judge that too..when I play the video in court.

I could be as big of a butthole as any...and as nice & respectful as any...if allowed to be.

Swamp nothing but respect for the older wardens but these new ones seem to think everyone of us is a poacher. We are all human and make mistakes but some of the newer folks expect perfection 24/7.

Never had any bad dealings with actual game wardens in Oregon they use a lot of volunteers and those guys think they are god. Run one out of camp when he snuck in 2 hours after dark demanding to see everyone's paperwork . Lucky he didn't get spanked before he left.

Here in Nevada the snot nosed new ones that are a pain don't seem to last long the dept gets rid of them. The new ones that are here for a while seem to mellow and are nice.

Ontario NRO's tickets go to their department......just saying

I once had a trooper ask me how the trapping was in the area. I didn't answer that one and he got offended. I guess he should not have told me he was a trapper before that question.

. . . and then there's the USFW Fed GW . . . whole different breed. Don't want to mess with them too much

Since I started trapping, I’ve never seen so many COs around. Always friendly and a good source for other information and going’s on too. I was telling the last sargent that I ran into about a trap thief in the Hadashville area. Told him this info was coming from Bob, that sure got his attention! CO “Wait, what area?”
Me “Hadashville”
CO “whew! That’s not my area”
I guess Bobs a big wheel at the office…lol

I've got a question maybe someone can answer. I recently had a spirited debate with 2 game wardens. I had been bird hunting ( small game license required) and the female warden was the ramrod of the operation and obviously as green as her britches with a man standing silently observing and backup. So I walk up to my truck and drop the tailgate lay down unloaded over under shotgun as the mosey over. So ms. Green jeans starts with the usually small talk then asks to see my license, required by law to show upon request, no problem. Then she says do you have your ID. I respond by saying an ID is not required to hunt small game. She repeats the question, I I repeat my answer. Then Mr greenjeans bulls up and says I'm gonna ask you one more time, I looked at him and said you never asked me anything to begin with so don't threaten me, you gonna arrest me? I said to him can you tell me exactly what's required to hunt small game in missouri and he wouldn't respond, just stared at me I asked again and he wouldn't respond. I've looked online and in the print copy of the wildlife code of missouri and can find nothing anywhere that says you have to have or present ID. It Cleary states must present hunting license upon request. So who was right do you think?