Pheasant numbers?

[Allen]

Are you asking if he believes that habitual offenders stay S of the Medicine Line because they want to avoid mandatory border-crossings and game checks? Or, maybe you're asking if he believes that habitual DUI offenders can't get in to CA and are more likely to end up in ND poaching away since they don't follow the rules anyway?

'05 or '06 ND G&F set up @ the Bismarck and Fargo airports after opening weekends of waterfowl and upland. The violation rate was over 80%. The was a major uproar and pretty good support for a lottery/quota like SD does for waterfowl. The ND G&F fix was to never set up game checks @ the airport again.

I remember that as I had friends from NC come up to hunt pheasants. They got checked at the airport, not over the limit. But there were numerous violations for over the limit, etc.

 

[gonefshn]

Had a great weekend out west. Bird numbers were definitely up where we hunted. Super dry though. Even had one of the landowners whos land we hunt each year ask us to not drive in on the trails on his land but to just stay on the roads around it and shoot them off the road or walk in from it when we see some. First time that’s ever happened.