Similar story here for me. A number of years ago I was hunting my neighbor's farm. I always hunt doves there. There is an adjacent farm that connects with this one and they always have a big opening day hunt there. We had just set up and the owner of the other farm comes over and tells us that he had been caught baiting his field and the law says you can not hunt within so many yards of a baited field. Just so happens that was half of what we had to hunt on.
To make matters worse him and his friends came over to our part and started shooting doves.
Then also another story. A shooting preserve here in the county has an annual opening day dove hunt. They charge a good size fee but they provide lunch.
Me and my friend got to the clubhouse late that morning and the owner drove us down to the field and pointed out where we could hunt. There were plenty of people already shooting. Well I had just shot a couple of doves when I saw several game wardens coming up to my friend and one came over to me.
At first he wanted to check my license and my gun to see I was legal. Then he proceeded to tell me that he could site me a citation and take my gun for hunting a baited field. He then said he would not do that because he believed we were not aware of it being baited.
Seems the owner of the preserve had spread wheat down the driveway coming in to the field and clubhouse. We were told to leave NOW. Well we went back to the owner to get our money back and he got kind of pissed about having to refund our money
