I said I would post this back here after I got an answer. An email from the GA DNR says that one must have permission to go on private land even to retrieve game. I asked if it mattered if you left your gun behind before venturing onto the private land ....... they said "No, doesn't matter, without permission you could be ticketed".
Geo., if you find that to be in error I'd like to know. Again, not a problem for me but I'd like to know for certain. I'd like to think the DNR would know what they were talking about.
SRH
Interesting. The Iowa DNR is quite clear, in their regs, that you can trespass to retrieve game that ends up on private land (without a gun). Matter of fact, if you do NOT do that, you could conceivably be ticketed for wanton waste. Most of the time, just sending the dog works pretty well for me. Although there was one instance where I ditch-snuck a rooster, dogless, dropped him in cut corn. Scrambled over the fence to pick him up and he came back to life. As I think back on it, it was like that scene in "Rocky II" where Mickey has Rocky chasing the chicken to get him ready for the rematch with Apollo. But I finally did catch up with that dodging bird. Lo these many years later, I'm thinking the pheasant would win.
