PointMan
10-26-2011, 06:58 PM
Had a fun, eventful day hunting today. Took a friend in for his first hunting trip today, he was pretty excited about it, he'd hunted years ago, but hadn't drawn a trigger in almost 20 years, so today was a big deal for him.
The trip started off with me mowing down a racoon that was unfortunate enough to be a couple of lengths behind his faster buddies. Tried to miss him, but not ditching my van for a racoon. Later that day we were cruising a cutblock, noticed a wt doe walking along the top toward the tree line. Got out, popped the magazine in, slid the bolt ahead, drew a bead, squeazed, CLICK! The round didn't chamber! Bolt must have been ahead slightly and blocked the round, oh well, maybe we'll find another.
Left there, headed out above a nearby lake, cruised around a while, spooked a little b bear, too small to bother with so we turned around to try somewhere else. As we headed back down I noticed a decent sized doe a few yards in the bush. We hopped out, I told him, here's your chance, everything but a bow on it. He popped it and down it went.
Small problem after that, he was so excited he cut his MULIE tag, cut it for antlerless too. (He did cut his wt tag once he figured out what he had done)As we all know, antlerless Mulie is LEH in region 8, so getting stopped at a roadside check with that cut would be a problem. He's planning on calling in the morning to report his error, my question is what are they likely to do, cancel his tag, fine him, both or what? Any idea? I was torn between smacking him and laughing at him, I opted for laughing, hopefully this dosen't cause him a big headache.
The trip started off with me mowing down a racoon that was unfortunate enough to be a couple of lengths behind his faster buddies. Tried to miss him, but not ditching my van for a racoon. Later that day we were cruising a cutblock, noticed a wt doe walking along the top toward the tree line. Got out, popped the magazine in, slid the bolt ahead, drew a bead, squeazed, CLICK! The round didn't chamber! Bolt must have been ahead slightly and blocked the round, oh well, maybe we'll find another.
Left there, headed out above a nearby lake, cruised around a while, spooked a little b bear, too small to bother with so we turned around to try somewhere else. As we headed back down I noticed a decent sized doe a few yards in the bush. We hopped out, I told him, here's your chance, everything but a bow on it. He popped it and down it went.
Small problem after that, he was so excited he cut his MULIE tag, cut it for antlerless too. (He did cut his wt tag once he figured out what he had done)As we all know, antlerless Mulie is LEH in region 8, so getting stopped at a roadside check with that cut would be a problem. He's planning on calling in the morning to report his error, my question is what are they likely to do, cancel his tag, fine him, both or what? Any idea? I was torn between smacking him and laughing at him, I opted for laughing, hopefully this dosen't cause him a big headache.