Turn in your hunting buddy?

[Laelkhunter]

Question is: How much is the reward if I rat him out?

 

[SteveCNJ]

Let's face it, most of us aren't hunting buddies with some shithead that's going to do something really egregious on purpose. So like many have already said, it would depend on where it is on the oh shit scale where we would report it.

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[gelton]

Damn! Ya got one guy turning in his dad here and another trying to turn in his son…..good question OP. I would not.

Read the post again, I didnt turn in my dad the landowner across the street called it in and it was my uncle that got the citation not my dad.

 

[doc holiday13]

someone once asked me about something similar to this once.

Sure its a violation to shoot a buck on a doe only day, but if you have a buck tag and you punch it the next buck only day, is it really a violation? Sure but what's purpose of the "buck only" and "doe only" days if you have a buck and a doe tag and you don't exceed your take for bucks and does?

 

[fwafwow]

Read the post again, I didnt turn in my dad the landowner across the street called it in and it was my uncle that got the citation not my dad.

He might be referring to post #40 -

 

[gelton]

He might be referring to post #40 -

Ah, thanks for the clarification.

 

[wind gypsy]

Too much nuance to answer the initial post beyond saying I would not call in a buddy for breaking a law in every circumstance due to the "doesn't matter how big or small, definitely broke the law" condition in the OP.

If say he uses a QAD exodus broadhead with "swept" blades vs the regular blades in a "no-barb" state.

If his blaze orange hat in CO had a little camo on it?

Hell no i'm not reporting them. I've been tested with stuff more significant but I believed were honest mistakes and have not called them in.

 

[Billy Goat]

There was this fisherman that always had a good day fishing. His friend, the game warden, couldn't figure out how he did it, so one day the game warden decided to go fishing with his friend.

The fisherman took his friend the warden out to his favorite spot. Once there, the fisherman took a stick of dynamite out of his backpack, lit it and threw it into the water. The dynamite exploded and a dozen fish floated to the top.

The game warden said, "That's illegal. You can't do that."

The fisherman goes, "Really?" He then lit another stick of dynamite and threw it into the water. The dynamite exploded, and a dozen more fish floated to the top.

The game warden said, "Stop that now, and take this boat back to shore. I'm going to have to give you a citation and confiscate all your gear."

The fisherman said, "Oh, really?"

He lit another stick of dynamite, threw it into the game warden's lap and said "You gonna sit there and keep flapping your trap, or are you gonna fish?"

 

[roosiebull]

I turned in my 12 yr old son in Montana.
I am not as horrible as I sound. We found him a nice mule deer buck with a group of does and he somehow managed to shoot the wrong deer. We were on private ground adjacent to my parents place. I called down and had dad call the game warden and report it. CO was out so we left a message.
In Montana your A tag entitles you to a mule deer or whitetail buck or a whitetail doe. He shot a mule deer doe. We took pictures of the kill site, then field dressed and drug her to our atvs, loaded her and took her to the ranch to await our fate. CO called an hour later and asked what happened. As I explained, he asked my sons age. When I told him 12, he informed me that the holder of a youth license could indeed legally take a mule deer doe. A huge sigh of relief followed. Crisis averted. I read the game laws more thoroughly now. But I wanted to be sure my son knew we follow all game laws.

Certainly don’t sound horrible in any way, teaching your boy honesty and setting an example is the opposite of horrible

 

[KHNC]

What if your buddy was a rich guy who drew an OIL Desert bighorn tag? Then when you guided him on a hunt he mistook an old prospector for a ram. Killed the old man stone dead and then told you he shot a Ewe and it was time to move on and find a ram. When you discovered what he did, he made you take off all your clothes and shoes and sent you off into the desert to die. What would you do? #Deathwatch

 

[KHNC]

Nope. Vin Diesel taught me in Fast and Furious, "I never nark on nobody".....or something like that.

Family

 

[RyanT26]

No. I might not hunt with them afterward depending what happened, Nobody likes a nark.

 

[rodney482]

As an LEO I would think my buddies respect me more than too knowingly violate game laws.

 

[Sadler]

W

Read the post again, I didnt turn in my dad the landowner across the street called it in and it was my uncle that got the citation not my dad.

Wasn’t referencing your post.

 

[Btaylor]

When I was 6-7 years old, I had gone to spend a week with my grandparents and fish several days. One day during that week Grandpa thought it would be funny to play a trick on me. He called his game warden buddy to come by the house. When he arrived I was called to the door and Grandpa said the game warden had gotten a report that I caught too many fish and he was going to have to take me in. I spun around and took off for my bedroom down the hall in the back of the house. The gun rack was on the wall in the hallway. I remember being just tall enough to grab the pump gun in the bottom slot. When they open the bedroom door I was behind the bed with that pump gun pointed at the door and screamed "I aint going to jail". I got a real stern talking too but didnt get a beatin cause they didnt see it as being all on me.

 

[RedBeard22]

What if your buddy was a rich guy who drew an OIL Desert bighorn tag? Then when you guided him on a hunt he mistook an old prospector for a ram. Killed the old man stone dead and then told you he shot a Ewe and it was time to move on and find a ram. When you discovered what he did, he made you take off all your clothes and shoes and sent you off into the desert to die. What would you do? #Deathwatch

This post made me think of that book and I thought about referencing it, but I didn't think anyone would get the reference.

 

[mi650]

I've only had cause to turn someone in once, not a buddy, but a neighbor. My son and I were in my blind at the back of my property, and heard the neighbor shoot.

A couple hours later, we headed back to the house and found a blood trail about 60 yards from my backdoor. We followed it to a dead unicorn. (A spike with only 1 antler.) Went the other direction and found the beginning of the blood 30 yards on my side of the property line. I was kinda pissed off!

So we came in and had lunch while we waited about 2 hours to see if the neighbor would come get it, then went back out and the deer was still there. I called the DNR poaching line, and they weren't interested. He told me I could take it, donate it, leave it to rot...

I dragged it to the house and gutted it, called a nephew who drove 2 1/2 hours from Detroit to tag it and take it home.



I lost a lot of respect for the DNR that day.

 

[mi650]

OK, I gotta ask: I've seen several mentions of riding around a gate with his ATV. Is this something that's just frowned upon, actually illegal, a way of trespassing...?



I have very little experience hunting outside of Michigan, so it's not something that has ever come to mind. I use an ATV to do as much of the dragging as possible. I won't drive onto a neighbors land without specific permission, and that's only come up twice in the 22 years I've owned my land. I drag them by hand to the property line, and then it's game on!! (On my own land, I'll drive thru damn near anything to get to a dead deer.)

 

[hh76]

Talking about going around the gate on a road closed to motorized vehicles. Public land.

 

[mi650]

Talking about going around the gate on a road closed to motorized vehicles. Public land.

Ah, OK. Thanks!