Depends. If it is a local sheriff who knows you, you get off with a warning. If Parks and Wildlife catches you, its a fine of up to $500.00. Parks and Wildlife is the equivalent of God in Texas. I played a gig a few years ago at a place called the Country Road Inn, way out in the middle of nowhere in East Texas. There was a guy there who came up to us during break and said he liked our music. We got to talking, when he told me he had just gotten out of prison. I asked him what he was in for, and he told me deer hunting, and said it with a straight face. He talked really slow, and it took me half an hour, pretty much the break I was on, and the following break to get the whole story out of him. Turns out, he was hunting deer with a machine gun, and Parks and Wildlife caught him. He got 6 months in prison, and Parks and Wildlife confiscated his truck and everything in it, except one item - His machine gun. He got that back the day he got out of prison, minus the ammo. True story.
Cheney not getting his bird stamp is not a big deal. People get their hunting licenses and forget the bird stamp all the time.
