Years ago this was.
We had a Sept 1-20 moose season. On he Refuge, using a plane to hunt moose by landing on lakes the first 10 days was verboten. 11-20, OK
State Trooper Sgt would fly in on the 6th or 7th on a "fishing trip" to a lake about 4 miles from the road - perfectly legal. And fly out the 11th or 12th with his moose, often shot on the 8-10th. He thought he was all alone out there. He wasn't. I heard the shots, monitored and recorded the planes (with tail numbers if I could get them), etc, tho I never attempted to get an eye on him. No hard evidence, therefor....
I reported the situation every year to both Troopers. (GW are also Troopers) and USF&W refuge officers, and after about 4 years it stopped. USF&W LEO's, I suspect, maybe had a talk with him.
He was using the same technique I was using, to get in there before "airplane season", to hunt the country before the airplane [bleep] could target the moose they had spotted from the air in the few days previous (also legal- if they didn't fly and shoot same day . and some did.) Then come the 11th, we could fly our meat out.
The diff was that I walked in and hunted legally, and he was cheating, in direct violation of USF&W regulations.
And it pissed me off.
We had a GW that was shooting ducks after hours....
They, the other GW's could hear the shooting and decided to catch whoever it was. Set up a trap, but this GW knew the woods and pipelines better and had a faster boat, he got away several times. Finally they had enough and brought in the helicopter.
Couldn't outrun it.
The fellow is not a GW anymore, but it wasn't the shooting ducks after hours that cost him his job.
