HippyInEngland said:
Surely some must bag 3 and declare a single tag shot.
It must happen a lot.
There must be many who just go and do it with no licence.
eace:
The game wardens from the Dept. of Fish and Wildlife in my state are absolutely ruthless. They even go so far as to plant deer "dummies" off of remote roads just at the treeline. Say it's a "bucks only, 2-point minimum" area (GMU), they'll set up a doe dummy and stake it out to see if anyone will stop and take a "pot-shot" at it. God help you if you do. They bust idiots every year in my GMU!
To show you how ruthless the wardens are: My neighbor's moron son and several of his buddies went out for modern center-fire elk last year. He managed to fill his bag, and the harvested bull met all requirements for the game management unit he was in. Peachy. One other fella also bagged out and
his animal was regulation too. No problem, right? Well, being inexperienced and stupid, they tried the oldest trick in the book; they affixed their tags onto the antler as required by law, but they didn't fill them (tags) out. Here you have to actually write down what GMU you're in, time of day, animal stats (point count, bull or cow, etc.) in ink, and then you have to physically punch a hole in the tag corresponding to the bag count (in this case "1"). Folks used to do this, and if stopped on the way out of the woods by a DFWL officer they'd claim to have forgotten, but would point out that they had indeed "tagged" their animal. The thinking was: If you can get all the way home without being stopped, you stash the elk then head back out for another one 'cuz your tag's still blank. The wardens got wise to this like 50 years ago. Well, the boys got stopped on their way home and their story didn't fly. They both lost their animals, their trucks, their rifles (one was a beautiful Sauer 200 .30-06 w/leupold VX-3L 4.5-14x56mm scope that I'd sold his Dad), and were both fined $2000. To boot, they can't hunt in the state for 10 years, and even then they would have to file for a special dispensation. Howz that for ruthless?