96-percent of hunters doing something illegal?

The federal game warden who patrols the national wildlife refuge where I hunt told me last year that 96 percent of the hunters there are doing something illegal.

I thought at the time that was an outrageous assumption coming from a law enforcement officer.

Earlier this week he wrote my friend -- I’ll call him Da’Quan --a $125 ticket for being in possession of toxic shot. Da’Quan had a low-base trap shell in the pocket of his hunting vest when checked by the warden. It obviously wasn’t a pheasant load like the other shells in the vest, but the law is the law and Da’Quan got a citation.

When he...