Hunting license costs ?

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Im in washington and we are having to almost sell our organs just to go hunting. so i was wondering how much everyone else spends on tags? my deer,elk,bear,cougar combo cost me $95 thats not including small game or migratory bird permits or licenses oh and not to include the lovely $30 permit for being able to drive in the woods now.
 
Alabama resident one year all game cost $24.20. That lets you hunt any game animal in the state, with the exception of having to buy duck stamps. We don't have tags in Alabama, so you can kill 216 deer a year(if I did the math right in my head), if you bag out everyday, only 3 can be bucks though. I normally kill 2 or 3 a year though.
 
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Georgia started selling Lifetime Sportsman licenses about 6-7 years ago. I paid $500 then. I'm covered for life for all hunting and fishing in Georgia. I still have to spend $15 each year for a Federal duck stamp but that is it.

Current prices are

Hunting & fishing combined-$17
Big game -$9
Georgia waterfowl-$5.50
WMA stamp -$19
Trout stamp-Not positive, but think it as $9

There are other fees for alligator, trapping etc.

I was spending $60-$70 each year for everything. Buying the lifetime license has paid for its self by now. If you buy before 16 they are $350. My son got a lifetime license for his 16th birthday.
 
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We don't have combo tags here. That would be four tags and upwards of $200 or so. I'll be hunting antelope in Wyoming in just over a week now. Three tags cost under $120 total, and those are nonresident tags.
 
Here in Idaho, I payed $85 for the license, deer tag, bear tag, wolf tag, migratory bird permit, upland game permit, sage grouse permit. It will be all worth if I can shoot a few things. Still need get a duck stamp.
 
$5, IIRC. Lifetime small game and fishing. Deer tags are 28.50, and additional andterless tags are 13.

Being a disabled vet has its perks. :D
 
I live in Colorado but hunt in Nebraska. Out of state permits there are pretty expensive.

For me Turkey is $91 (two birds), small game is $81 plus $35 for stamps. I don’t big game hunt but deer permits range from $55 for antlerless to $209 for buck in a specific area to $521 for limited statewide buck.

A lifetime permit is $1871 plus $500 for stamps.

I pay the $116 for pheasants and other small game happily. Given all the days I get to spend hunting it’s not too bad per day. The $91 for turkey is ridiculous in my opinion. The area is overrun with the things with hundreds within walking distance of the house.
 
$48 for elk, 38 for deer. 42 for bear, 65 for fish/ small game. Close guesses you get the point resident hunting in Colorado seems to be a little more expensive.
 
Pretty cheap here in Arkansas.

$10.50 for a basic hunting license. That's small game and one deer tag. Modern gun only.

$25.00 for the Sportsman license. That's small game, as well as 6 deer tags. That's 4 doe tags and 2 either sex tags. Good for archery, modern gun, or muzzleloader.

For $35.00 you can get the combo license which includes the Sportsman license as well as fishing license.

Not sure about non-resident. I'm sure it's more expensive.
 
$46 per elk tag, I have two so that's $92 so far, then a $31 deer tag, then a $41 bear tag, then $20 small game, another $20 for waterfowl stamps from the state and feds. Plus another special $46 elk license, plus $20 for turkey, so about $265. Cheap entertainment as far as I'm concerned. I think another $20 for a fishing license. If I actually added a cougar license, that'd be another $40

Oh and then application season adds another $780 in state for moose, sheep, goat and pronghorn points, which was at least refunded.

And then we get to out of state licenses... I have 6 Wyoming licenses at $34 each, so what is that? almost $200. Plus tried to draw buck tag, so that was another $375 or so. But included the preference point. Add another $30 for antelope points, another $50 for elk points.

Utah hunting license is $65, plus $10 for elk and deer with antlers each, and another $10 for anterless elk bonus points.

Nevada, I didn't buy the license this year, just applied the cheap way, so another $14....

Another $20 or $25 for a Montana 2 day fishing license...

Oh, and then Kentucky elk, Maine Moose, Vermont Moose. New Hampshire moose draws...


I say quit your crying, and several other states do have blacktails including California, Oregon and Alaska. The cheapest would be in Alaska at $150 each plus an $85 hunting license.
 
It cost $57 here in NY for the sportsmans license which includes small game, big game (buck and bear tag) and fishing. If you want 2 does tags, it will cost you another $10, but its a lottery and no guarantee you'll get them. Turkey tags cost extra as well. If you want to hunt with your bow as well, it will cost you around $100 for everything.
 
obviously your just a trophy hunter
Cheap entertainment as far as I'm concerned.
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and could care less about meat what i do is fill my freezer to support my family and others when i have spare, also your show of buying every tag available to both coasts is not what i wanted to know i just wanted to see what other people pay not hear put-downs on people on this thread if your gonna be a jerk
I say quit your crying,
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go somewhere else to do it. It is unwanted here sir.
 
I don't mean to be snarky, but if $95 is a strain, I'd be for picking up aluminum cans of an evening. Or some sort of extra part-time work.

I've always resented out-of-state license costs, but I don't see how anybody can gripe at resident costs for licenses.

Sorta like precious metals: It's not that the price has gone up so much as our government has driven the value of a dollar way down. Game wardens and wildlife biologists gotta eat, too, just like the rest of us.

Where's the nickel coffee I once enjoyed? Penny post cards? 30¢ gasoline? 50¢ for a box of .22 ammo?
 
it went up from $75 to 95 and then you have to pay for driving permits which are new this year and the worst part of it all is that they announced that a percentage of what we pay for these tags goes into the general fund for the state which it shouldnt, and i do pick up aluminum cans i walk my road every week im unemployed and do odd jobs just to make enough to get by. And for the fish and game biologists to get by yes i agree i know every one in the 3 counties around me and they all say the same thing prices are going up and there pay is going down. So who knows where the estimated 8million is gonna go from this years new increases not fish and game i can tell you that.
 
I dont hunt in TX other than Hogs... I choose to go to CO and NM, tags range from 300-600.00 (Elk and Mule)
 
Hunting is a hobby to me... I won't starve to death if I don't hunt. I've got chickens for meat and eggs. I buy a ton of female tags because I enjoy hunting, those certainly ain't trophy tags.
You're gonna spend a lot more than $95 just on fuel when hunting anywhere in the west, unless its your backyard, in which case you don't need all those other licenses. Maybe you shoulda cut the cougar or bear out of your combo and saved a few bucks there instead. Looks like the deer and elk combo is $69. And since elk is about the only hunting that you can do and claim to be saving money when you harvest, that would have $45.
Maybe sell an extra gun to afford your hobby.
If you're just trying to survive, chicken, rice, beans and ground beef are all cheap foods.
 
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