I was following you. Don't know about other parts of the state but our GWs enforce the written permit law at the request of the landowner. They don't just stop on the side of the road and take off through the woods writing folks without written permission on them. The land owner would show up in court and say just because , (we'll say co-worker for this example), my co-worker didn't have written permission don't mean I didn't mind him hunting on my property. Judge would throw those citations out quick as they could write them. Now they may check all those other things you listed and never ask for written permission. Seen it happen.

When they came to "patrol" my property they asked if I wanted them to enforce the written permission law. That was the reason they were there. I told them unless the hunter they found was with me at that time, or was a ajoining landowner, or had written permission write them.