01.00-F PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE. The possession of any tackle or killing device in fields, forests, along streams or in any location known to be game cover, may be considered along with other evidence as prima facie evidence that the possessor is hunting or fishing.
Out of the Arkansas regulations. miles
That's a damn shame.
The laws were written that way to answer the precise question you had earlier. When is one hunting? If the GW were required to actually catch someone pulling the trigger or in possession of illegal game, it would hard to ever give a ticket. However, it was presumed that game wardens would exercise a bit of discretion. Of course, in today's "compliance at all costs" era of law enforcement, discretion and common sense are in increasingly short supply.
