They are severely understaffed and the wardens that are active are covering multiple counties in some cases. They have checked us several times over the years and it was usually cordial and we always tell them to stop by if someone is at the camp. I have had to call them twice over the years, one to catch duck hunters shooting after hours every weekend and the other to report a night hunting problem. In both instances they caught both groups and in the case of the night hunting problem, they caught multiple groups. In both cases, I found that other landowners & hunters in the area had also reported the problem.

One morning about 20 years ago, I had one walk up on me one morning while I was hunting. Big black warden in Barbour County named Aurora(?). I was watching a deer and not paying attention to my the area behind me. He walked up to about 20 yards before he announced his presence. Big man could walk like a ghost.