WRONG. You should get out more. Read more news. Something. You are severely misguided.

If a GW wanted to search my camp house for coolers, what's in the freezer, I would probably decline to give my consent-even though I can assure you I have nothing to hide. The GW may press the issue and search anyway, I don't know. (In any event, they would find nothing.)
I have declined to give consent to search my vehicle during traffic stops on two occasions-the officers were not happy either time, but they did not press the issue.
Sometimes you just have to exercise your rights just to make sure you still have them.

I agree, Nog.

Lots of farmers up here take advantage of that crap. Killing deer of the combine, letting corn stand till the end of deer season and claiming crop damage for tags, and ins cash.When i was growing up i could walk out the front door and hunt as far as i could walk in any direction. Farmers didn't care as long as someone was killing them. Nowadays there's posted signs in every direction because the last 2 farmer generations hunt.

Elaborate on the "pretext" if you would.

No such thing as deer crop insurance. If your talking about the yeild program, your better off harvesting it then not. Insurance only pays out a 1/8 of normal historical yeilds

Wow

Another LE agency sending a GW in to inspect private property for other suspected violations.

In re-reading Chapter 12 it appears "pretext" is not possible given that information not directly related to the purposes of the investigation/research appears to be not disclosable without landowner consent. So I stand corrected.

That's what I thought you were getting at. Like a game warden inspecting a property and finding something suspicious while the DEA is cued up at the front gate?

Well in relation to drugs or the DEA in general if they want to get a look at something up close and personal they would just get a helicopter and hover right above whatever it is they really want to look at for themselves, so they don't need anyone else's help.

If at that point they see something illicit then they would get a search warrant to investigate further.

If I'm going through normal duties and I'm legally at where I am supposed to be and come across something illegal, I'm not expected to put blinders on and pretend like it didn't happen.

There is no Game Warden walking into a house just because and looking around then bringing the Narc's in. If you weren't there legally to begin with then it would be what the Supreme Court calls "Fruit Of The Poisonous Tree".

we get paid a tad more than 1/8

You bring up an area of the about search rule that really chaps me. When I was in the pecan business in Jacksboro, the local GW, J.C. Romines, stopped me several times as I was leaving the orchard at sundown with the trailer loaded with burlap sacks of pecans headed to the cleaner. He would randomly cut the string on a dozen or so sacks and ram his hand down in as far as he could. Finding nothing, he would drive off, leaving me to resew the sacks and try to get to the house without getting a ticket for no trailer lights, By the time he had finished his fun, it would be dark. At the time, I didn’t even own a deer rifle plus if I had been dumb enough to hide deer parts in the pecan sacks, I would have ruined more value then the deer meat was worth. Petty harassment hiding behind a GW badge. The entire thing was obviously illegal but in a small rural town, you can’t afford to make the local LEO community mad at you.

The SCOTUS has continuously held that entry into an open field, whether trespassing or not, is not a search under the meaning of the Fourth Amendment. A home and the curtilage (yard) around it are protected, but outside the curtilage there is no expectation of privacy. Fences and no trespassing signs mean nothing to the "Open Fields Doctrine".