I thought I would wish every one here good luck this season and be careful out there!
Check your hunting area CAREFULLY as to what your state laws consider
illegal BAITING!
My son- in law last year had asked me about going in with him on leasing some Timber Co.
land we could work on develop for us to hunt on
as not to have to deal with public land hunting here in Alabama where
they will just walk in on top of you every time no matter what!
I agreed and he found 80 acres about 1 1/2 hours south of us
here in Alabama
We bought seed for food plots,hung stands,game cameras,Corn Feeders,
I did not want the feeders but son in law said under new laws they were
legal as long as the corn had been completly gone by 10 days before opening day.
I gave in!
I was sick opening day but went with him any way and sat in a old shooting house some one had built before us the son down at the creek.
Saw nothing but the Game WARDEN walking down the road bed across from me to the creek where the son was then back up past me then back and down again then left.
We decided to bag it early and head home.
Son in law went back next weekend I was to sick with flu to go.
Son hunted creek again Game Warden come back did same thing again
down and back several times.Son gave up left early called me about
him hanging around our little plot.
I asked the son are you sure we are legal as to the empty feeders?
He says yes!
This Sunday I felt a little better and got up early and went down to the land and got in in shooting house before dawn.
Saw nothing the whole day but I kept hunting all day.
That evening at 4 pm I hear foot steps at the door to the shooting house the Game Warden checking for my Hunting Lic.
No problem just doing his job.
I comply and see he is jumpy about my rifle so I unload it to settle him down.
Then he goes off about me illegal baiting for deer!
Surprized what bait?
fEEDERS are empty and have been for over a month.
No they have to be moved or come down he said.
He then walks down in front of the house a points to a rotten pumpkin
that my son in law had thrown off the back of his truck that had been
my grand daughter`s jack o lantern for Halloween a month ago.
He said to most Game Warden S that would not consider baiting but to him it was ! And HE wrote me up for the rotten pumpkin rhine and some pumpkin seeds son in law didnt clean out when he carved the jack o lantern.
He then walks me all the way out to my truck and shines his flash light in my truck bed to point out 5 kernels of corn wedged in the seam of the bed!
That HE considered Baiting also!
He wrote me up for a $500.00 fine and kept asking me to fight it
in front of the judge !
That he loved to go to court over his tickets and that I had better
show up or"They would come get me"?!
This would thing went on for over a hour with him talking a mile a minute.
Then he said I had to remove the rotten pumpkin and the pumpkin seeds
before I left !
I drove my little Tacoma 4x4 down the skidder track to the shooting house , and on hands and knees scooped up the rotten rhine and seeds by the high beams of my Toyota.
THAT took me another hour so I did not get back home till LATE!
No cell service down there and my wife was going nuts worried that
I had been hurt or shot by another hunter.
My WIFE is a R.N. and said I was GRAY skin color and SWEATING bad when I finally got in that late.
I have never been that angry in my 54 years on this earth!
God forgive me!
I guess he WAS just doing his job but the sick smile he had the whole time he had me alone in the woods
He REALLY enjoyed writing me that $500.00 ticket for that rotten pumpkin and pumpkin seeds!
That the son in law did not tell me he had done and
I did not see the the tall grass and did not know was there.
I take bath but just can`t let the anger go!
I then have a massive pain in my chest and wake up in the E.R. with a
funny talking Dr. telling me I had a Heart Attack.
I should be fine they say down the road but real weak now.
I drove down 12/09/2015 to pay the $500.00 for the infamous pumpkin
rhine and seeds and the Lady in he Clerks office in the Court House
shook her head and wished me a "Merry Christmas"
Sorry for the LONG post but please check your hunting area real good
before you hunt!
This new baiting law here in Alabama is unclear to my feeble mind.
Thanks AMRA
Last edited by AMRA; 12/10/15.
