Originally Posted by
toytruck
It wasn't "free" up till this year the big license included bear/deer/turkey for one price. Now DGIF took out bear an made a new bear license just to hunt them. The price stayed the same for deer/turkey.
IMO the VA bear association was behind this trying to have more bear for their members to hunt. I'm sure a lot of deer hunters were killing bear while deer hunting, now it will cost more.
I won't buy the new license and now will have bear run over top of me...lol
I know exactly what they did and I will reiterate that it takes money to run the Department. Cry all you want, but prices go up on everything and if you can't pay the few bucks to hunt a particular species then stay home!