You guys wanna complain about paying less than a couple hundred bucks to kill animals that us easterners would pay THOU$AND$ for?
And there you have it. The NR are all complaining about the "greed" of the resident hunters but fail to realize the reason tags are high priced and LE tags are limited is because of what is quoted above. There are thousands of guys willing to pay thousands of dollars and could care less if the push every resident out of the way to be able to hunt. I sure hope Harry Reid gets his bill pushed through soon so that we can preserve our hunting traditions out west.
You tell me... the annual number of animals that need to be removed is known. Why would the game depts NOT want more of them going to NRs when they will be getting up to 10x more money in license fees for those animals removal?
So we should just allow you to hunt whenever and where ever you want because you have money. The reason game depts. don't throw the door open to every NR resident is because they have to answer to their employers, who are the local resident hunters who vote and reside in their respective states. I have a friend who is a game warden here in town. I asked him who he works for, he said the State of Montana. Like it or not that is the current system.
Sounds too me like some of you guys in the western states are just acting like spoiled children. $30-$40 for a tag? Sheesh thats hardly worth the commissions time. Here in TN I buy an all inclusive (species, weapon, state permits etc) license called a "Sportsmans License" that just had a 30% increase and now will run nearly $140 a year.
So you even have a clue what our sportsman's license costs and they are raising the fees next year. It is $106. Is that ten times what you pay in your home state. Montana ranks around 48th or 49th in per capita income if you think all the residents are selfish and have a sweet deal on hunting then move here and enjoy it with the rest of us if not then be prepared to pay the price. Quit sniveling
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