I posted this on www.predatormaster.com because someone brought up the topic of gun mounted lights in PA and there is a referral to someone else's problems as they think the game commission will let them go free using a gun mounted light for night predator hunting. LOL, LOL, LOL
 

Its just stupid I guess to want to hunt by yourself at night and be able to identify your target before and as you shoot. I'm one of those people that need both hands on my gun to hold, aim, and shoot it. There must be something wrong with me I guess since I wasn't born with that 3rd arm to hold the light while everything else is going on. Now about that gun mounted light thing again???
 

I have been hunting and fishing for 30 years now and PA game commission officers are nothing short of money hungry pests that don't care about safety nearly as much as they care about money and I can prove it.

One day while fishing "Long Arm Dam" near Gettysburg, PA, some friends had their boat on the water as did my son and I. The game commission approached my friends when they docked and proceeded to "read a list" of questions regarding safety items you need with you. Once they found something to charge them with, that was the end of questioning for them. My friend was charged because he didn't have a horn on his 14ft Jon boat in this electric only lake.

The game commission then approached me and read down the same list until they could find something to charge me with.

I made it one question past my friend on this list. I had life preservers for everybody on the boat but did not have my throw able PFC.

The point is that Safety had nothing to do with the charges. After they had something to charge us with, the questioning was over and they left. I have no idea how many items they can check you for, but they only cared about one. MONEY,MONEY, MONEY. The proof is in the pudding.

Don't expect the game commission to let you go right away for the light on the scope. Chances are they will let you go but not until they make their gas and doughnut money. And yes I do use a scope mounted light so I must be an outlaw tooooo.

I called Huntingdon Game Commission because I couldn't find anything in the Hunting and Trapping guide on setting out decoys for predators. The officer I spoke with said and I quote, "I guess if its not in the rules and regs book then it must be ok". WRONG. I argued that the answer he gave me was unacceptable and after going back and forth with this guy about it he finally asked somebody else and they said no decoys. He then put me on hold again and came back to say the I could use decoys but they must be the same type of animal you are calling. You can only use a rabbit decoy to call in a rabbit and a coyote decoy to call a coyote.

Once again, don't trust the PA Game Commission for anything other than vacuuming out your wallet!!

Another time I had a sick skunk trapped in my shed and called the PA game commission to dispose of it and told them it wasn't acting right. They were notified of where I lived, {in the boro limits } and they told me shoot it even though its against the law to discharge a firearm within the boro limits. Once again, Don't trust the PA Game Commission for anything other then consuming your fundage.

To anybody this offends, sorry. These are my own run-ins with the game commission and they have left me with a false sense of trust for them and their actions.