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GTC

Of course it's not! We're all just "renting" remember? If you actually owned it, you could do as you please, period. If you want to really "own" something you better be ready, and able, to defend it.

Does GW=Gay Warden? LOL

In Colorado, I met a Hunter Safety Instructor that had to teach a class for the Rookie D.O.W. Officers. It's not real encouraging to think that some of the people that are out there to enforce hunting regulations haven't hunted. It's possible that some had to take it in Colorado because where they came from didn't require it, but isn't that somewhat rare these days?

I'm sure they exist, but I haven't met one who hunts yet.

That's your Department, .....no?

GTC

I have. One that helped me out with a flat tire, when the miserable factory lug wrench broke was a great kid. He was a good bobcat hunter and trapper from up north. He was kinda ticked at the State of Colorado for only allowing live traps on cats.

I'll correct myself. A Texas Game Warden from Leesville La, Nicest kid you'll ever meet.

Best one I've ever met was in Louisiana 20 years ago. Apparently he was the biggest 'outlaw' in several Parishes before becoming a game cop.

Use too be that a lot of Forest and Game Wardens in Alberta, and B.C. were retired / reformed Poachers,.....and great at their new chosen professions to a man.

.....and most of 'em still held trapping licenses.

All of 'em hunted.

SteelHead's right,....things WERE a lot different.

Our local crew in S.E. Az. seem to be real fine fellows, all hunters and rifle loonies. One's a guide, in his off hours.

GTC

It takes a thief. Lots of truth to tha saying.

So we should hire ex-cons for police officers?

That was like the second one I grew up knowing. I never had any encounters with him though.

So I can't say who comes on my property and I have to pay the govt yearly rent for life in the form of property taxes.


....what's the point of owning anything anymore?

Yep, but he was also a very level headed guy, great personality and the ability to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Lots of that has changed here, now. The Lower BC guys try to trick you with dumb azz questions, so they can try to search your vehicle. The North BC guts are still a decent bunch, at least the ones I run into. The AB guys, are not bad either. All of them have way too much area to cover.

R.

Of course not, but choir boys don't make good cops, of any genre. That's why the most exclusive agencies have the moxt laughable LEO's.

Couldn't agree more.

They made this guy a warden because they could never catch him, though they knew he was poaching. I'm not sure how much he really hunted...legally....after that. But, he was a good warden. He nailed quite a few people on some big issues.

My brother had a run-in with him for hunting without a parent or licensed adult with him. He was 16 and I think you had to be 18. Since I had moved away and my father had passed away, he was on his own for hunting. The sad part of it was that his hunting buddy's dad had passed away as well. He asked them both about where their fathers were. One saying he was dead was one thing, but when both said it, the warden thought he was getting a big story and so he reamed them pretty good.

When the other kid got home, he told his mother. She called the warden and chewed on him as only a mother can do. Didn't matter much, but was kind of humorous...in a sick sort of way.

So you can be shot while baiting turkeys in your Golden Years.