Even though it is technically legal to shine, it can still be considered harrasing the wildlife under certain situations and you can be cited for this. One game warden told me that they are getting called out of bed in the middle of the night so often to go check on spotlighters that they are doing a very thorough check and writing tickets for anything they find: missing license plate lights, no seatbelt, etc. to try to get people to stop. They have no idea if you are out doing it legally or if there is a truck full of poachers with loaded weapons awaiting them. I personally wish they would change the law and not allow it - poaching is bad enough around here and if that would help slow poaching, I would be all for it.