On Patrol: A Day During Dove Season with Wildlife Law Enforcement

Ride along with N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission Law Enforcement Officers as they patrol public game lands during dove hunting season.

[@ianckoerner]

I get to do the physical and written entry exam on 7/10/24 at the Samarcand academy and I’m so excited about the prospect of being a wildlife law enforcement officer 🤞🏻

[@davetyler6042]

Thanks for everything you do, game wardens. Hunting and fishing is a lot safer because of you guys... and if we didn't have game wardens there would be no game to hunt. Stay strong and don't listen to the haters.

[@zachwulf-americanpatriot5015]

Ive Never seen so much hulabaloo over a few compliance checks 😂😂😂. People are getting there pants in a wad over an Game Warden doin his job!!!

[@johnramsey6366]

Y’all act like you’re stalking a serial killer when all you have is somebody shooting a few doves!😅

[@paulmoss7940]

Here is a real question for WARDENS in NC. How do you guys feel about enforcing bad laws? Like the ones regulating the upcoming two week NC flounder season. You know, the one fish limit. When the netters get all the breaks. Clearly politics and money are influencing these laws, along with known bad data. How about it ? I don't really expect any of you to have the balls to answer truthfully. See you on the water .

[@randyboone2637]

If they would answer you, they would most definitely lose their job. If you work for the state you work for the politicians who are bought and paid for by deep pocketed individuals.

[@user-rz7op4mx4e]

yall need to plant some sunflowers on the sandhills game lands......

[@Tiggitytye]

safflower is way better, but might not be native there.

[@nathanialmiller2957]

Fields look terrible how about those wardens get to working the land instead baby sitting

[@usernamehere6061]

Thats usually what the biologists do behind the scenes and never get credit in most states 🤷‍♂️ wardens are the face which makes most hunters hate the DNR as a whole.

[@steventwiddy3402]

Amen…..it pisses me off to no end to have to pay the amount that I have to pay to enjoy my sport and we have roads that look like A10s have used them for bombing practice and gates everywhere so you can’t even access public land while the good old wardens and marine fisheries are riding around in the finest equipment our money can buy just to be able to make the state more money that we will never get to enjoy

[@usernamehere6061]

@@steventwiddy3402 Careful what you wish for. If it gets made too easy everyone will use it and it will be more crowded than it is fun. You would be the same one crying that its too over pressured if all the roads were blacktop with unlimited access.

[@jcooper1444]

I've never understood how game wardens have the right to conduct a search and seizure without probable cause of a crime being committed. This is just like being pulled over just for driving and giving no reason to be pulled over. It is essentially an illegal detention as they are investigating a crimeless activity. They are literally hunting down people who have given no reason to believe they have committed a crime.

[@efaciler2462]

Highly regulated activity numb nuts.

[@paulmoss7940]

They are supposed to have probable cause.

[@turtsable]

Ya they have more power than the Police in my opinion.

[@mydixienourmous4233]

You can thank the Supreme courts for that. Fwc are the worst of them all.

[@419outdoors9]

Government overreach

[@JT-vc5kw]

A video of game wardens stalking law abiding citizens.

[@USMC-xr6xc]

“ when there’s not a lot of shots” … we’ll that’s because it’s typical NC public land, nothing much to shoot at.

[@landonvincent6389]

I'd say opening day of dove is one of their busiest days

[@MrTravis0306]

Love what y’all do! Thanks for being out there

[@jadewright6957]

I am a guy from Florida. I have a question maybe someone on here can answer. I’ve looked it up and seem to find different answers online. Can you use mechanical dove decoys in florida?

[@NCWildlifeResourcesCommission]

We don't know the regulations in Florida, sorry Jade.

[@joesolley7407]

Ithaca 37 Featherlight!

[@bobbyscott8024]

Isn't that Keith Garner with that Ithaca Pump?

[@joshgarner8300]

That’s my dad

[@jeremy28135]

God bless you guys. DNR doesn’t get enough credit.

[@mydixienourmous4233]

Government slaves violating citizens rights on daily basis. Plead the 5 and don't answer questions.

[@zygotepeyote]

Did they recycle some phones from the 70's for your radios in your vehicles?

[@jroweapd]

Wish they would check serial numbers on guns. I would say a lot of them would be stolen without the person even knowing it.

[@davepayne586]

so differrent over there, in the uk we dont need a licence to shoot pigeons,so we dont get theses people out, looking for us,

[@James_A_Bailey87]

So many ignorant comments on this post 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@xGoobeyBearx]

The embodiment of the teacher's pet loser who wanted to get everyone in trouble......

[@mrtnt0101]

Who to get in touch with about top sow wheat hunting? Contact number?? Thanks

[@NCWildlifeResourcesCommission]

The pamphlet Dove Hunting in North Carolina provides a summary of regulations pertaining to dove hunting. online.flippingbook.com/view/834562520/ You can also call your local Wildlife Officer, find them here: www.ncwildlife.org/Contacts#551898-law-enforcement

[@garrettunbehagen3164]

They need to check after the hunt. Wait at their trucks. Always messing peoples hunts up.

[@user-rw8mx1dd3c]

I mean damn...if you're gonna be like that, just close the damn season. Wth bobby..?

[@kayakwesty]

Those fields look horrible

[@slugoo6474]

well they're free

[@kayakwesty]

@@slugoo6474 are they?

[@danieljenkins8523]

There will be 60 people in a 10 acre field

[@USMC-xr6xc]

They are, the state couldn’t care less.

[@georgesakellaropoulos8162]

​@@danieljenkins8523And they start shooting when the birds are 80 yards out.

[@MrMajic-wv8cn]

Ahhh dove opener the day wardens love to collect revenue

[@skaisurov7852]

👎

[@secedenc5544]

We definitely need Game Wardens, but y’all have way to much power and go after the wrong people. Y’all pull people over or walk up on people with no probable cause, demanding licenses and unlawfully searching peoples property. Our Founding Fathers would be ashamed.

[@MrAvidOutdoorsman]

What happened to innocent until proven guilty!? Most people are good people who abide by the "kings laws" and will do everything they need to do to be able to partake in the "kings" activities so they don't get fined,caged and labeled. All I see here are a couple of "better thans" snooping, without any "safety orange" on at that, to bother people who just want to be left alone to feed themselves!

[@MrAvidOutdoorsman]

Leave people be and stop checking papers this is not germany and we wouldn't partake in an activity the king deems finable unless we are legal so assume we are legal until a law has been broken

[@wala3o]

Pigs and doves at peace