re: Is Game Warden activity Constitutional

If people didn't act like assholes and abuse nature, there would not be need for game wardens.

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They can’t come through our locked gate into our private property. It’s none of their fricking business what we hunt on our private land.

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Unfortunately you could not be more wrong and it is established case law although it is old case law that really needs to be challenged.

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Game Warden

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Damn near every country boy wanted to be one. Damn near impossible to become one without an "in."

May be a nice gig...I don't know.

What I do know is that your essentially and a-hole fish police officer that can do whatever the frick you want whenever the frick you want.

Basically you wander around until you find the right spot to be an a-hole.

I gave been told that Game wardens have WAY more leeway to enforce game and fish laws than police do to enforce laws in general. I don't know if this is true. It is generally a violation of the 4th amendment for a policeman to ask for ID if they can not articulate what crime they are investigating. The bar ain't high as reasonable suspicion of almost anything clears the way but game warderns apparently have no such requirement because they ask for hunting/fishing licenses which contain identifying information when the have no suspicion of a crime or an reasonable cause to be asking for ID. It happens so regularly it'd be hard to imagine it not being challenged at some point.

Federal game wardens are worse than state game wardens and most state wardens make the worst cop on any force look like a Sunday school teacher. I have seen this from Florida to Washington and in Canada, Germany, France, Poland and the Czech Republic. I think they recruit game wardens from police academies and look for the assholes in every class. I usually never have an issue with a game warden to speak of but almost everyone of them act as if you are a serial killer when you are fishing with your kid. I had one almost sink my boat once because he did not know how to handle a boat in a current, had one pull a gun on me because he had written me a ticket 2 weeks prior that was dismissed by a judge, I am regularly checked multiple times a day by the same wardens in the same area simply because they have nothing better to do and I have had it happen everywhere I have ever hunted or fished. It has gotten far worse over the last 10 years or so. I don't know if they have more leeway than cops but they certainly take more leeway.

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"Single shot, bitch. Only holds one round.

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I had a federal game warden in Texas ask me if an Over/Under was plugged...I thought he was joking, he was dead serious. He didn't mention it when I said "is an over/under....". He had to have know it was because as he approached I broke it open, removed the shells and had it across my chest as he asked about the plug.

North Woods Law is the worse. Those GWs are cocksuckers

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It’s guilty until proven innocent with these clowns.

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