Ill license fee increased.
03-06-2010, 08:08 AM
#1
Nontypical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: West Chicago, Il
Posts: 1,081
Ill license fee increased.
Just picked up my Il hunting license for 2010/2011. Had to pay $12.50 for the license alone! Last year I paid $13.00 for the license & habitat stamp together. guess Pat Quinn is trying to squeeze everyone he can.
03-07-2010, 11:30 AM
#2
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: IL
Posts: 6,575
I can't stand the resident vs. non-resident price differences.
I recently was reading about the price difference for tags in MT. A resident could buy an elk tag for $16, and a deer tag for $10 I think. Are you kidding me? As a non-res I don't mind paying a premium price for a quality tag in which I'm only going to hunt maybe a couple weeks max and want to get a nice animal. It probably cost more than $10 per deer tag just to print them all, and do the draws, otc equipment etc...no reason a resident can't pay $50 for a deer, and a $100 for an elk, least for a buck/bull quality tag, not a meat doe or something...
Resident fees in most places are dirt cheap IMO.
I recently was reading about the price difference for tags in MT. A resident could buy an elk tag for $16, and a deer tag for $10 I think. Are you kidding me? As a non-res I don't mind paying a premium price for a quality tag in which I'm only going to hunt maybe a couple weeks max and want to get a nice animal. It probably cost more than $10 per deer tag just to print them all, and do the draws, otc equipment etc...no reason a resident can't pay $50 for a deer, and a $100 for an elk, least for a buck/bull quality tag, not a meat doe or something...
Resident fees in most places are dirt cheap IMO.
03-07-2010, 02:13 PM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Fulton county IL USA
Posts: 4,271
However, when was the last time you have seen a price incease ??? It's been years since we've had a price height... we were due.
03-08-2010, 02:31 PM
#4
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Illinois
Posts: 2,828
I just paid $31 and some change for a hunting/fishing lic. with a habitat stamp. I think $1.50 was the convience fee. I don't like it anymore than anyone else but it was due to go up just like everyting else. I renewed my FOID card too last fall, $5 to $10 but went from 5 years to 10 years.
03-08-2010, 05:55 PM
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 3,913
Turkey permits haven't increased yet, but I'm sure its coming.
03-09-2010, 09:42 PM
#8
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Chicago, IL
Posts: 1,462
As long as the money goes back into hunting activities I have no problem in the price increase. I honestly thought that the hunting licenses in Illinois were almost too cheap before. To ensure hunting in the future in Illinois, I am happy to pay the increase. A $5 increase isn't bad at all since it hasn't been raised in years.
03-15-2010, 02:12 PM
#10
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Southern Illinois
Posts: 262
I honestly think its ridiculous because the broke state of IL. and i highly doubt the money will go back into hunting it'll go towards trying to bail ILL. out of this monster hole were in. What they should do is make ol Rod and Ryan pick up the tab for some of the extra fees since there the reason we have all these extra fees