Montana game warden show

[wind gypsy]

So the first thing to they do when they get to the animal is tag it?
They don’t even grab the antlers and take a look first?
No pictures?
Jus walk straight up and notch the tag before anything else?

I find that hard to believe.

I'm usually extra cautious on this one because of stories in the news about people busted for being a little lax on it. Still managed to not be perfect with it this year. When i shot a buck on my land i punched the tag without touching the deer and stuffed it in my havalon pouch and let it sit next to the deer. Tape was in my pack in the blind 100 yards away and planned on grabbing it when i was on my way back with a tractor to retrieve the deer.

My 2 and 4 YO kids were pretty excited about dad shooting a deer so I waited for the Mrs to bring them to the land so they could go on a tractor ride and retrieve it. In the ensuing excitement with the kids, i forgot all about actually attaching the punched tag until we got back to our shack and meat pole and realized the tag was was still laying with the knife on the ground. It wasn't intentional or egregious but i didn't follow the law completely.

 

[K9kodi]

Had you just walked up and taped the tag on it wouldn’t have happened. Sounds like you had a lot going on in your head and , if like me, that would be the time in that day adhd kicked my ass. Shit happens. Intentions weren’t bad. But some oeoooe actually have bad intentions disguised as ignorance or forgetfulness.

 

[Spork]

Skip the hunting parts and watch the Flathead Lake drunken boat and bikini show. Montanans at their finest.

 

[Pony Soldier]

I guess I consistanttly break their law. Many years ago, I put a tag on an animal before I loaded it on a horse. Going through heavy tree cover, the tag got ripped off on the trip to the truck.

Since then I have punched the tag but don't attach it until I get to the truck or the house. This is especially with having the tag printed on conventional paper. I have never seen a warden anyplace but on the road so I'm probably safe until I'm not.

I hate to watch them focus on floaters and boaters for life preservors. Why should they save people that stupid. They just breed and make more idiots.

 

[Wagondriver]

Lots of poaching out there. A friend used to drive a trash truck in the Carbondale to Aspen area. He said that in the trailer parks there were deer and elk bones and hides all year long. I turned in many, and testified once.
I have found where hunters have dumped several ducks and geese not cleaned, I have watched hunters shoot across a fence onto KNOWN private land and drag a deer under the fence. I have found salt blocks under permanent tree stands on public land, with fresh carcasses nearby. I have encountered a guy packing out elk meat 3 days after the season ended (in warm weather), then found he and his buddies had killed two and wounded a third but only tagged one elk. I have watched through a spotting scope as a group of guys shot a couple dozen rounds from the road, at cow elk, on private property in the wrong unit, no cow tag, killing 2. Watched guys shoot a deer across the county road on private property that no one is allowed to hunt.
I lived way out, was out running one evening and heard a shot up ahead of me, get around the corner and there are 3 non english speaking females in a Ford Ranger shooting and killing a doe in July.

I would guess that the vast majority of poachers are never caught.
The way hunting regs are written, many people are committing crimes without knowing it.