randyabb1 wrote:
If varies state by state I'm sure, but I know in PA if you are participating in the hunt, you have to adhere to all of the rules just like an active hunter, gun or no gun. That said and somewhat related: I collect the FED stamps and prefer my sig not to be 'obnoxiously large'. So one year I got a blind draw and I asked a Deputy Warden who was singing me in if my sig was "legal" -- it was across the very bottom of the stamp, he said "Yeah". It was clearly legible and my legal name. Two weeks later I'm near that blind area (in a public field) and the Chief Warden walks up to me, checks me out, says my stamp is illegal b/c it wasn't "across the face" (from lower left corner to upper right corner)... I told him the discussion I had with his colleague two weeks prior. After a 5 min discussion and him seeing my Federal law enforcement ID I'm convinced that was the only reason he cut me a break... he finally said "Well sign it again", I did and that was the end of it. People wonder why the sport is losing participants...
Crap, I sign the stamp across the face on the white border edge. I do not sign the back of the stamp, or any of the edges, just across the face on the inside border, right along the perforations so as to not screw up the artwork. If some game warden wants to argue that my stamp which is signed on the face is not signed across the face, then it would be my pleasure to get it straightened out with them in front of a judge. I'll turn that warden into a hobby.