Rising cost of waterfowl licenses
08-06-2013, 08:58 AM
#1
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 198
Rising cost of waterfowl licenses
Just wanted to hear your thoughts by region. Is it costing an arm and a leg to hunt in your area? Do you think the costs outweigh the hunt? Personally I feel Tennessee is outrageous with its fees as opposed to the hunting opportunities when it comes to waterfowl. Let me know what you all think....
TN Hunt/Fish Combo: 28.00
TN Waterfowl Permit: 31.00
Migratory Bird Cert: 2.00
Federal Stamp: 15.00
Total : 76.00
add ammo, gas, food, etc.
TN Hunt/Fish Combo: 28.00
TN Waterfowl Permit: 31.00
Migratory Bird Cert: 2.00
Federal Stamp: 15.00
Total : 76.00
add ammo, gas, food, etc.
08-07-2013, 10:34 AM
#3
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 198
Yeah it's getting rough... something I forgot to mention in my original post. Tennessee has certain WMAs that you need to pay extra to hunt. Upwards of $30. So if you wanted to switch up a little and hunt different spots, it's going to cost you extra. What gets me is... where does all the money go?
08-09-2013, 05:37 PM
#4
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Huntin' In Colorado
Posts: 2,910
The cost of the license is minimal compared to the cost of the overall hunt.
With a trailer full of bigfoots, shells, movable GHG, layout blinds, flags and who knows what else! Then you need the truck to pull the trailer. Almost forgot about the duck decoys and a few robo ducks.
Don't forget the Benelli and the cost of shells!
My club is very inexpensive only $1000 dollars a year but we have a bunch of properties. (just guessing probably 25 to 30)
However, the 150 to 200 bucks a week for FREAKING GAS! That's the biggest cost of all!
The 50 bucks for license and stamps is not even a drop in the bucket. I'll pay that any day to get to waterfowl hunt.
With a trailer full of bigfoots, shells, movable GHG, layout blinds, flags and who knows what else! Then you need the truck to pull the trailer. Almost forgot about the duck decoys and a few robo ducks.
Don't forget the Benelli and the cost of shells!
My club is very inexpensive only $1000 dollars a year but we have a bunch of properties. (just guessing probably 25 to 30)
However, the 150 to 200 bucks a week for FREAKING GAS! That's the biggest cost of all!
The 50 bucks for license and stamps is not even a drop in the bucket. I'll pay that any day to get to waterfowl hunt.
Last edited by Colorado Luckydog; 08-09-2013 at 05:40 PM.
08-10-2013, 05:34 AM
#5
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Allegan, MI
Posts: 8,019
I hear you on gas expense! I was over $1400 last year on my trip out for big game in Wyoming and pheasants in North Dakota. Anyone who complains about paying $330 to go to another state to hunt deer, bear, and turkies needs to reassess the other expenses involved before complaining about that when you figure out how little that works out to on a daily basis.
Last edited by Topgun 3006; 08-10-2013 at 12:37 PM.
08-10-2013, 07:38 PM
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Huntin' In Colorado
Posts: 2,910
What kind of properties do you hunt? I counted the properties in my club today and we have a little over 35. We have lakes, ponds, rivers and a ton of cornfields with great pits.
I'm not sure what your public waterfowl hunting is like but I would rather get beat up than hunt some of the public waterfowl hunting in Colorado. Some of it can be very good at times. Those same public properties can have a bunch of sky busting A-holes on it at other times.
Club hunting is the way to go in Colorado. It sucks for the guys that can't afford it!!!
I'm not sure what your public waterfowl hunting is like but I would rather get beat up than hunt some of the public waterfowl hunting in Colorado. Some of it can be very good at times. Those same public properties can have a bunch of sky busting A-holes on it at other times.
Club hunting is the way to go in Colorado. It sucks for the guys that can't afford it!!!
08-10-2013, 09:37 PM
#8
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Winnipeg Manitoba Canada
Posts: 1,837
What kind of properties do you hunt? I counted the properties in my club today and we have a little over 35. We have lakes, ponds, rivers and a ton of cornfields with great pits.
I'm not sure what your public waterfowl hunting is like but I would rather get beat up than hunt some of the public waterfowl all those hunting in Colorado. Some of it can be very good at times. Those same public properties can have a bunch of sky busting A-holes on it at other times.
Club hunting is the way to go in Colorado. It sucks for the guys that can't afford it!!!
I'm not sure what your public waterfowl hunting is like but I would rather get beat up than hunt some of the public waterfowl all those hunting in Colorado. Some of it can be very good at times. Those same public properties can have a bunch of sky busting A-holes on it at other times.
Club hunting is the way to go in Colorado. It sucks for the guys that can't afford it!!!
Ron
08-11-2013, 08:20 PM
#9
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Huntin' In Colorado
Posts: 2,910
Well, seeing as our province is almost three times the size of Texas with maybe 2,000,000 people in that WHOLE province, we just very seldom see other people in our hunting spots. We also have all those hunting conditions and places you mention. This is the Mississippi Flyway I`m talking about also.
Ron
Ron
