Teedub31,

Your numbers regarding fees and your clarifications are very informative and I appreciate you taking the time to share them. Your state does seem expensive, though you are buying a lot of various tags (am I right in reading your #s when it looks like the base price to hunt deer is $44, more to add archery and additional deer)?

Here in WI, it's $24 for a gun license which comes with a buck tag and a doe tag. Additional antlerless tags are $2 each--that's a major difference between our states. (In EAB zones, the buck tag is not valid until an EAB sticker is attached OR you have a tagged doe in possession which will earn the sticker--e.g. shoot the doe and then shoot the buck in the same outing.) I think my license actually came with a second antlerless tag good for archery but I don't have it with me at the moment to check and I didn't pay close attention because I didn't get out for archery hunting this year.