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I've hunted all of my life and never had an encounter with a game warden. That's pretty wild. Seems like a game warden of all people would be wearing orange. And Charlie, do yourself a favor and get yourself some binoculars. That rifle scope is not ok to check distant objects out with.

It just depends. Sex crimes per say I don't think should just "fall off." A 19 year old having sex with a 16 year old, should not be and is not an issue per TN state law. Marijuana itself should just be decriminalized anyway. I find that people that think that marijuana is evil usually have a lot in common with the "guns are evil" crowd, in that they have never been around it. Marijuana users are non violent, and are not prone to steal and vandalize things. The same can not be said for alcohol yet it's not illegal. Due to the nature of the drug of ounces is not going to take out the kingpins. If anything go after the guys that posses pounds of it, they are the ones that are close to the ones who are importing or growing it. If they want to really put a stop to it that's the ones they need to be chasing not a kid with an ounce.

I think they do it for publicity so the sheep will feel safe. Anyone with a little bit of common and local knowledge will know what roads they should stay off of if they have been drinking. (I'm not condoning drinking and driving.) If anything these road blocks probably catch not the habitual drunk but the professional that just left dinner and was headed home, but hey drinking and driving is drinking and driving. Every bar fly knows how to fly under the radar to get home.

Find a friend that is not very smart to help you. I once worked with a guy that harvested wild mushrooms all the time. Evidently some dangerous ones look like the safe ones. He ate the wrong kind and was having crazy hallucinations. So have a dumb friend eat them first, if he seems okay after a few hours then you are probably good to go.

I've seen a lot of people get taken to jail because they didn't have an ID. Of course you never know what will happen and you certainly don't leave to house intending on committing a crime, not most of us anyway. But say you are detained for a misdemeanor crime. Having that ID could be the difference in a cite and release and going to jail. Very good points about ID in case of an accident as well. I never leave the house without ID.

It may be later than I would like to start but it is never too late. Get in there, even if it is just a few days before you are going to hunt. Just look around for deer sign and trails, find the most heavily used game trail and set up where you can get a shot on it. Although it is ideal to start scouting for next year the day the season ends that is not always practical. I used to hunt north of Memphis and it was not feasible for me to scout the land all year. I quiet walk around the day before the season opener was usually all I got. I can take a walk around some land and have a good idea of how I can hunt it successfully. Still the more scouting you can do the better.

Good luck!

I grew up in Mt. Juliet being harrassed constantly by the local PD. I have zero respect for that police department, they are a bunch of thugs. Funny the bullies in highschool are now the police force. I've heard the "Would you know why I smell marijuana right now?" line from them it took everything I had not to fire back with "Probably because you just got done smoking a joint and it's still on your breath."

Haven't been asked to be searched in a long time. Only once actually. I can say after that experience I will not consent again. I know that most LEOs are good guys that really try to do a good job but there are a few bad apples out there and those seem to be the ones that pull me over, used to anyway. I have nothing to hide but I'm not going to let a cop rip my car apart, dump the contents of the console and the glove box on the floor, and halfway take my car apart and them say "I don't know where you hid it but you did a good job." Fishing expeditions belong on the lake, not in my car. Besides, honestly, my car and truck are a freakin mess, I work out of them and there is all kinds of tools and other stuff floating around in there, I'm sure something in any of my vehicles could be considered paraphernalia if you really wanted to.

It is even illegal if you are sitting in your tree stand and a house dog runs a deer to you to shoot it. CYA if there is a dog around I wouldn't be shooting a deer.

Believe it or not I think we have more or less reached agreement. You are right they do have a very low success rate. I really think that it is a social thing more than a "let's go get meat!" event. As I said before I'm not exaggerating the numbers of hunters standing around, I think I have seen 1 or 2 harvested bears this season. Here anymore I'm just going to try to stay put and not get out on the road during the day during bear season. I do understand hunting with dogs, I can sympathize with the issues surrounding dogs crossing property lines, treeing where you don't want them too, and even loosing them. Years ago I hunted coons. Only time I would shoot one out was at the landowners request if they had been making a nuisance of themselves. Looking at it from a sporting perspective a coon can loose a dog a lot easier than a bear can.

I have no interest in bear hunting, zero. See yall don't have a bear season up there in Clarksville. If you lived where there was a bear season and had dogs on tree all night next to your house. Saw the dogs that got left after the hunt to starve. Know a few people that have been beat up for asking bear hunters to leave their private property (I know two personally.) Or see the 50 hunters per mile (not an exaggeration) standing in the road blocking traffic and drinking you may feel differently. As a hunter I am appalled at their activities, I can only imagine what the general public that see's this thinks of all hunters.

Hard to beat a 41, one of my favorites!

HD is a good idea, I put all my important stuff on there, you can get a terabyte for about 100 now. That's 1000 gigs, most people will never use that much.

I have gotten to where I can't stand football, I have a hard time cheering on guys that make 10s of millions of dollars each year while acting like a bunch of uncaged monkeys whenever they are let off the football field.

PFRIES was right on, talk to the parole officer, you should be fine as long as they are locked up.

^^^^^^^^^This, yo have a perfectly good deer rifle, with well placed shots a .243 is more than adequate for deer, slap a new stock on it and be done with it!

I have a 597 that I really like. I like it enough that my BL-22 lives in the safe and my 597 sees near daily duty. Hey I would feel bad if I treated that little Browning the way I treat this 597. I picked mine up for $50 with a case and scope from a friend that wanted rid of it. It sat in a corner for a couple of years I was just going to sell it to someone who needed it, then I started playing around with it. It had a lot of reliability issues so I stripped it down and gave it a good cleaning. It's run the last 1000 +/- bulk rounds flawlessly. Best $50 I ever spent on a rifle.

My go to gun is my good old Mauser M96 in .270. Been hunting with this gun since I've been deer hunting and it has never failed me. I just don't think a .270 can be beat for a great deer cartridge. I've taken upwards of 30 deer with this rifle and 25 dropped on the spot with out taking a step. Leaves them "dead in their tracks" yet recoil is light and it's not really over kill. I have no clue why anyone would shoot a larger caliber for whitetail, it just isn't necessary unless you are just a poor marksman. I do keep a few other guns on hand though and I will switch up depending on the conditions where I am hunting each day. Possible guns that I may use include a Marlin 30-30, a Mosin Nagant, and one that I haven't hunted with much in the past but is seeing a lot more action lately is my Remington 870, keeping it smoothbore shooting rifled slugs. I just love this shotgun (maybe because I've been trying to wear it out since I got it at age 12), it is dead accurate with the slugs with this set up but I usually only carry it when I am hunting nasty thickets. Oh I almost forgot I hunted with a S&W 686 .357 mag last year but I was unable to get a deer with it, I would like tot take a deer with that gun as well.

If I'm not mistaken a game warden can retrieve game in the situation that you describe whereas you can see the game from the property line and the landowner will not let you retrieve it. I had a neighbor that I am good friends with have this happen to him, he shot the deer and tracked it to another neighbors field, he could see the deer dead so he went to the neighbors house and asked his permission to retrieve his deer, surprisingly my neighbor would not allow him to get it, he's just that way. My buddy told him that he would be back with the game warden and at that point he was allowed to get his deer. If that happened to me I think I would have pulled out my cell and called it in right there if I had service.

Really it can't be said enough, thanks for the reminder!

I worked for Papa John's for a time almost 10 years ago. Then the policy was absolutely no firearms in your vehicle period. Probably is the same now. I always carried anyway, no job delivering pizza is worth your life.

I haven't been around bear hunting for most of my life, not until recently. Bear hunting seems to be a pretty big deal around here where I live and I can respect tradition. From what I have observed thus far I'm not really sure why it is allowed to hunt bear with dogs, it seems like to me that there is no sport in it what so ever. I also realize that what most people in a group do does not apply to the entire group but around here the bear hunters are really known as a bunch of disrespectful savages. I've heard numerous stories about them trespassing (I've hunted with dogs so I can sympathize to an extent,) worse than trespassing though is the manner in which they become irate if a property owner confronts them about it, even several accounts of several hunters beating land owners within inches of their lives. Personally, I just can't call letting dogs go on the side of the road and tracking them with a GPS hunting. Not to mention the fact that the animal has virtually no chance of escape with the packs of 10-20 dogs that they usually are hunting with. If there is any bear in the area it is going to be treed and shot out, it will never have a chance to escape. Am I out of line here? Am I missing something? Am I possibly grumpy and irrational about the situation because there was a bear treed all night last night a couple of hundred yards from my house and I got sick of hearing the dogs on tree? Never thought that I would disapprove of any type of hunting but now I'm starting to think otherwise. I still have an open mind though so educate me if my observations are incorrect.

I'm usually just after does but I had a buck with a really ugly rack come out in front of my last year, I was hunting our property so I decided to take him out to keep those bad genes from being spread around. As soon as I was eating on him I was regretting it. Does just taste so much better.

I've done it twice, I process my own so I really don't have much of a desire to have 3 deer carcasses on my hands at one time. Each time I did that I gave away at least one.