North Dakota Game Wardens Assc

[Sluggin_Guts]

There is a page on Facebook for the North Dakota Game Wardens Association. Earlier in the week they had a post saying they were considering a regulation that would allow them to ticket a hunter who was carrying a large caliber rifle to shoot coyote or skunks while walking with his friends who were deer hunting. The idea was that if a guy shot his deer in the morning but decided to carry his 300 mag along that afternoon while walking with his hunting buddies that the 300 was too excessive and clearly demonstrated they were party hunting. They were looking for public feedback but the post was gone when I looked a couple days later. I'm sure they didn't get the responses they wanted. I was looking forward to the comments.

 

[Davy Crockett]

Sluggin that is a fun page to look through, Thanks

 

[PrairieGhost]

I shot a coyote with my 300 mag this year. I did shoot the coyote before my deer, but I had four rifles in camp and I shot him from camp. Of course I shot my deer while I was only ten feet from my camper too. I believe you can be under gunned, but I don't believe you can be over gunned. I went through 20 rounds one day shooting prairie dogs with a 300 mag. I shot a few with 405 gr cast in my 45/70 too.


Coyotes don't much argue with a 210 gr Berger VLD at 3000 + fps. Biggest coyote I ever shot and I was a little irritated with myself that I didn't grab a smaller caliber so I could have had it tanned. I guess it would have still been ok if you wanted a throw for the floor in the shape of a donut.

 

[deleted member]

Who gives a shit what gun you wanna shoot a dog with? If it's the only gun i got, it's the one I am gonna carry in case opportunity knocks.

 

[guywhofishes]

interesting challenge for wardens - can anyone suggest a way to make it easier to enforce/prevent party hunting?

just curious

I had someone shoot “my deer” in my earlier 20s

I quit hunting under those circumstances since. Friggin irritating.

 

[Kentucky Windage]

For dumb.

 

[Allen]

Personally, I don't understand why anyone would let someone else shoot their deer. Especially in times like this where you only get a single rifle tag a year. Maybe back in the days of multiple tags, but I would have serious issues with someone shooting a deer and expecting my season to be over.

 

[JUSTWINGNIT]

Party hunting happens every year in this state.....everyone knows it. It's not legal obviously but I honestly don't think anything will stop it.

 

[Casey Buchholz]

I had my 7mm mag with while my dad and I drove around looking for his deer. It was actually brought along as a back up rifle for him just incase something happened to his .300 wsm. I did end up shooting at a yote but I missed. I feel that if you give the wardens power like this then they are no longer serving their purpose as a public servant employee. They would be able to say I am hunting game that I truly am not. I guess we all have our own opinion but I strongly believe that a person should be innocent until proven guilty. I understand that people abuse this but I feel it's wrong to accuse someone of something they truly may not be doing.

 

[bucksnbears]

Party hunting happens every year in this state.....everyone knows it. It's not legal obviously but I honestly don't think anything will stop it.

Bamm!!!when tags were easy to get, I'd say it was the norm!

 

[guywhofishes]

I agree - this “ban big caliber if no tag” approach is dumb

but any out of the box ideas?

 

[Allen]

Casey,

Remember, this is how we got the requirement to keep tags on mounts, or risk losing them. Along with that, you are also no longer able to pick up a dead skull. Thought behind that was we were going to go around shooting deer, leaving them lay, and then come back later and just tell everyone "looky what I found".

SMDH...

 

[Retired-Guy]

A few years ago when deer were as plentiful as mosquitoes, I had a buck tag and my "buddy" had a doe tag. Less than an hour after we started hunting, he came racing back to tell me he had "accidentally" shot a buck and I needed to tag it which I did. It was only a fork or 3x3 (don't remember which) and had been shot in the hind quarters. Really pissed me off but I did shoot his doe with a clean shot that destroyed little if any meat Of course I got to take the buck that had been shot in the ass home with me and he got the cleans hot doe. It was the one and only time I hunted with him.

 

[Obi-Wan]

Personally, I don't understand why anyone would let someone else shoot their deer. Especially in times like this where you only get a single rifle tag a year. Maybe back in the days of multiple tags, but I would have serious issues with someone shooting a deer and expecting my season to be over.

How about letting your son or daughter shoot your deer as you are sitting beside them in an effort to get them hooked?

 

[Allen]

How about letting your son or daughter shoot your deer as you are sitting beside them in an effort to get them hooked?

Now that they can shoot a deer at the age of 11, I don't think I need to worry about that scenario. However, I am quite sure that happens (happened) often and I am not as opposed to that scenario as I am to Joe Shmoe that I just happen to be in the field with thinking he has the green light to shoot at anything brown because I will let him fill my tag.

 

[5575]

;:;banghead

 

[shorthairsrus]

what happen to freedom to carry a weapon imo more gun control lower the tags to compensate for the illigal hunters

 

[dust in the wind]

I saw that post too and read through some comments. Seemed like a easy way to fine/charge a person for an uncommitted offense.

From my understanding, if you were wearing orange during rifle season and carrying a large caliber rifle coyote hunting then they were basically going to assume you were poaching deer if you didn’t have a deer tag.

 

[LBrandt]

This is why I hunt mainly alone.

 

[Achucker]

I've never understood why party hinting is illegal. I know it is done in ND. If everyone in the party agrees to it I say go ahead. I know that no one will be shooting mine.