Interesting topic from seperate views. I believe that had the CO's taken the time to "respect" the property owners rights, this and many more issues would be mute.
I believe that it will now never be solved, and would have just read the threads and not added much, until ....SH commented that it only ruined a good hunt because a CO found the hunter in violation of one of the infractions.
Two years ago, I was watching a great buck, I spotted him about mid summer, I watched him carefully over the next few months and spent a fair amount of time just letting him be and thinking about the local winter season. about two weeks before the season opened, I took the time to stay up all night to see if his habits had changed or if he was keeping to the same scedule, then I even waited until the second day of the season to take him, I was on MY OWN LAND, with all required tags ect. sitting there at 3:30 in cold Dec. the morning waiting for dawn, and the deer,
he showed up right on scedule, about a half mile away walking towards the edge of my field, where I would get a good clean shot, within seconds he was gone, as the local CO drove over to check my license. the girl jumped out and bounced over to where I was sitting and cheerfully asked for my license. and couldn't understand why I was so
off. she had seen my truck the week before and was sure she was going to catch me poaching. Had she looked up my address and talked to me niether of us would have had the words we had that morning.
I still got the deer, and it was indeed a fine Buck, This is not the first time she has ruined a hunt and is a self professed animal lover. Compliants have only resulted in the "she is just doing here job" ...
Sad to hear that no matter where you go there is a CO bent on ruining some ones fine day.....