ORIGINAL: pats102862
ORIGINAL: Wolf killer
I like the way the tag fees prices are set up.
I will gladly pay what ever your home state is asking for a deer tag. Just as soon I get tired of hunting deer in my home state of Montana.
Come to Pa. A hunting tag will cost you $101 and you can buy it over the counter. I paid 1500 for the combo this year out your way.
If you want to compare, please do so fairly:
1) If you paid $1500 for a MT combo tag, it was not a regular one but outfitter-sponsored or something, so you can't compare like you're doing. A MT combo tag is about $650 or so.
2) How many deer can you shoot each year in PA? Even residents in MT can only shoot 1 buck. Their deer populations are much smaller and their are far fewer hunters than the densly populated eastern states. You can shoot dozens of deer in Indiana if you get permission in enough counties (1 buck) and many midwestern states allow you to shoot multiple bucks. So the DNR is raking in money from many, many more tags and can allow virtually unlimited non-resident tags to go out. MT limits non-residents to 10% of tags.
It's very hard to make a legitimate comparison between eastern and western states. I think a $650 combo tag in MT is a better value than the $120 whitetail tag in MI.