Originally Posted by
rh160kid
You are making it sound like NYS mandated an AR in every piece of state land that can be hunted!!! Lets get a figure of how many acres of huntable public land areas dont have an AR as to the ones that do. Is raising licsence costs doin the same thing!!!!!??? Driving people out of the sport !!?? Yet guys like Steve863 have no problems with that!!! Go to your local sports shop and see what more guys are bitching about- ridiculous licsence costs or experimental ARs.
Sorry, but I don't think a $30 increase will drive many people from the sport. $30 is probably less than most people pay for a months cellphone charge or cable TV bill. I am paying more for just about everything else these days, so the $30 hunting license increase comes as no surprise. If the $30 will make some people stop hunting, then maybe these folks aren't really cut out to be hunters in my opinion. Sure I have heard some bitch about license increases also, but from what I can see these same folks who bitch about the extra $30 have no problems dropping twice as much in saloon several times a week. So I guess it just all depends what peoples priorities are.