I've had 3 citations in my 52 years. I was in the wrong on all 3. Game Warden was as nice as could be. First one was when I was 16.

The point system definitely could make a guy think about pulling the trigger and double-check on the gender/species, for sure.

Was on another hunt one morning when we had a banner day. No one wanted the ducks, which pissed me off because we spent several hours in the blinds and they were just going to dump them, I guess. No one even said "I know a guy who will take them." Made me mad as hell.

I took home a garbage bag of probably 30+ ducks and spent an afternoon cleaning and packaging all of them. Still pisses me off that they did that.

a buddy and I killed a pile of ducks one morning, seems like it was 17 er 18 ducks, all 10 pointers except a crippled hen mallard I killed when picking up the decoys. I had em at the house, fixing to take em to my duck cleaning lady, Estelle. My Capt drove up to talk about something and kept eyeing that pile of ducks. I finally told him to sort em out so he wouldn't pop a gasket. LOL Two legal limits.

A gaggle of 10-pointers made for a good morning ...

If there is a question you have about a hunting situation that you can't get a straight answer from your game warden, what is the number in Montgomery that you can call to speak with someone?

334-242-3465 and ask for Law Enforcement

The "flaw" in the regulation is the regulation itself.

It should have never been implemented.

If they wanted to clarify "area" for purposes of the *statute* they should have just said 400 yards. If you are hunting and their is corn within 400 yards boom your are in violation of the *statute* that prohibits hunting with aid of corn.

By implementing the 100 yard rule they *intentionally* created a situation *inviting* hunters to purposely fudge with hunting over/with aid of/use of corn - albeit at a distance of 100 yards and one inch and just behind a bush, tree or dip in the ground.

Let me give you a scenario that happened to a buddy a few years ago and get your thoughts. He was in an elevated shooting house, had taken his orange hat off. Hunting over a place where corn had been. No corn had been added for 10 days but there were still some husks laying around. Anyway GW comes up (same one I mentioned above) and calls him from the house. He leaves his gun and orange hat and meets the GW at the feeding spot. They argue over whether or not there's bait. GW writes citation for hunting over bait, and citation for no orange..... (again, he left his hat and gun in the shooting house). Now let me say this, knowing the guy, there was probably some smart arse remarks made... Opinion?

corn ticket I don't know, wern't there

orange ticket, bs IF the gun was left in the shooting house. Dosen't matter the smart arse remarks, stilll should not of written the orange ticket.

Ole Jeff didn't care who he wrote a ticket too. My aunt and uncle were his neighbor and he wrote a friend of theirs a ticket on their pier. He took his grand kids down to fish and he was just helping them out baiting hooks and taking fish off. He told my aunt he was gonna shoot her lab with a BB gun for getting in his trash. She is a dog nut and went ballistic he said it won't hurt them. She told him to let her shoot him with it and see if it hurt. Lol.

Kinda what I thought. That being said, this guy has a pretty loud mouth. He was going to fight it, but ended up paying it.

a smart azz mouth would of gotten you every ticket I could of legally written, but I still wouldn't just make up stuff.

My question was about my property. I have two feeding stations, 100 yards+ and out of sight of my stands across a food plot. I was wanting a game warden to come out and OK the area and a warden told me yesterday that he could not do it, per Montgomery instructions. I called Montgomery and they repeated the same thing. Just make sure you can't see the feeder and no problem.

the current baiting reg is by far the most gerfuckulated piece of garbage I've ever seen.

So they won't come give you advice about whether you're legal? Dang.

I think WmHunter's correct. All the new stuff did was be more vague and create more problem, instead of saying A or B or Yea or Nay. They created "Ehhh, maybe."

Question for you, Why is the feeder across the food plot out of sight as opposed to some where on your property not connected to your hunting,then you wouldn't need to call anyone or would you?

I'm sure everywhere on his property is technically "connected" to his hunting. Hand that ladle over, I got a pot boiling over

I never had any dealings with him.. Talking with a few of the other guys they kinda shake their heads when his name comes up.

Because it is on my property and the law says 100 yards and out of sight of hunter.

That's kind of like the way politicians on tv answer questions but fair enough,its your hunting and your property,good luck and enjoy the season