I moved from outside Philly, knew all the Chester, Bucks and Lancaster law enforcement being a State of Pennsylvania Animal Control Agent (fancy name for a legal game killer). I could do pretty much anything I wanted and get away with (spooled). Moved to Colorado and fell in with the DOW along with Laramie County Sheriff Department as a deputy (owned horses and a 6 horse trailer). The Sheriff loved folks with equipment they had access to and it was free so they make you a deputy. The best part was I lived 20 miles from Loveland CO and about the same from Estes Park, worked for the phone company and was the only person for 15 miles around with a private phone line. Guess who got called for all the problems in the area to deal with them until a real deputy could get there (usually 45-50 minutes on your own). You learned real fast that lesson, you became a real pain to poachers and other law breakers (hell I was famous for my saw-off 16 ga. double barreled Springfield shotgun). Several big mouth poachers found out real close when hit across the face with it when they tried to grab it. The sheriff would look the other way when a complaint would be registered.
Oh for the good old days one more time. Pete would have been a good counter part .... :Red tup: :ttups: