Apparently wardens stopped by our club last weekend and wrote one of the guys a $250 ticket for hunting over corn.
Interesting part is they gave one of the guys a written warning for having a loaded rifle (mag, not one chambered) in the back floorboard of his truck. Said the only reason it was a warning and not a ticket was because it was only the mag, the chamber was empty. I thought there was nothing illegal about a loaded rifle in the truck as long is it wasn't on a WMA. This was private property.
One of the wardens also told my FIL that they'd gone through the cooler in the back of his truck to make sure he didn't have any beer in it.....is that legal for them to do that and why the hell would've it mattered if he did have beer in the cooler as long as it wasn't opened.
Sounds messed up to me. I can understand wanting to check a cooler for game but beer. I'm not aware of any law against a cooler of beer. Not unless you're drunk and driving does that make sense. I mentioned in a previous post that I didn't understand the loaded magazine with empty chamber. Was it at dark and they're trying to make a case for trying to take a deer at night? Makes no sense and really sounds unprofessional to me. I was stopped at my club back in early November but both the warden and the trooper with him were professional. Really nice folks and treated me well even though they scared the crap out of me walking out of my stand. Sounds like you had a different experience. Most LEOs are professional but there are bad apples everywhere. Probably some rookie desperate to make cases and build his reputation, at the expense of lawful hunters, to get promoted.
