Originally Posted by
Oldtimr
Just found out that PA is seeking legislation that would double the cost of a hunting license over a 5 year period. Resient adult would go to $40.00 after 5 years and non res would go to $200.00. Junior licenses would stay the same, both resident and non resident. The cost would rise $10 the first year, $5 the second and $5 the third year. PA has not had a license increase in 16 years. I didn;t hear or see anything about the smaller license such as archery muzzleloader etc. Let the the games begin, it is never nice when a license increase is asked for. What ever happens, I will still buy my and my license.
In this day and age that seems like a reasonable way to get their budget squared away and not do it all at one time. If it's been 16 years since the last increase, there shouldn't be any griping by the public, but you certainly know there will be because some always want something for nothing! MI just redid it's entire license structure a year ago and there really wasn't much negative criticism the way it was done, especially because of it also being a long time since the last increase.