True confessions
 

How much do you spend on hunting per year and what do you get out of it? (list of toys and # of deer)
This conclusive list is to include license, food, transportation, toys, ammo and flowers, or equivalent for the wife, ;) and the multitude of other "necessary" suff.

I'm just curious if I'm the only one who is effected for the "gotta have it vs. the done have much to show for it" formula [:-]

So far, this year I believe I have spent around $400 and the season starts in October, so its only going to get worse:D So far I have bought a clip for my rifle and a knife sharpening kit plus water proofing items for my maps and leather. Crap! There must be more I have forgotten... :D



Please include how long you hunt and lets limit the alcohol to around two bottles :)

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Man O man. If I knew the exact amount my wife would kill me. Every time I go into Gander Mountain I can't walk out with nothing.

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Changes from year to year.Cost in the past 45 years probably averaged 100 a year and 3 deer a year

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I probably average $600 per year. Average 3 der per year and at least 1 turkey.

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This year hunting and hunting related will top $4,000. I just bought a new Zeiss, club dues at $1,300, gas, eats, personal food plots and other leases add up.

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i've spent about $200 so far, but i still have to buy my nonresident license and deer tags in kentucky, and pay off my new 30-06.... so i'll be on up there.... around $500 at the very least. i'm sure i'll find more stuff somewhere.

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I've never actually crunched the numbers.. but I'd have to guess between $800 and $1,000. I get a few squirrel, birds, groundhog, and about 2-3 deer a year.. Now that I'm pretty much finished for a while, as far as equipment is concerned, the cost should go down. BUT it's worth the price for the experience of the adventure, not the "per pound" cost my wife likes to throw around. She likes the say we eat some of the most expensive meat around. I told her meat is cheap it is my memories that are expensive!! Hopefully I never get Alzheimer's, or I'll never hear the end of it (not that I would remember anyway..haha).

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That's a bad question. . .for me and my 2 young sons, 3 or 4K a year, lease, guns, feed, clothes, etc. But this past season we put 6 nice Deer in the freezer and 8 hogs, 1 Turkey. The year before 7 Deer, 4 hogs. This needs to be shown with a pricless photo. You can't put a price on the times spent with the boys in the great outdoors.

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on hunting in gerneral, about 2k+change easy. on deer alone probly 1200 or so

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I probably spend 1500 a year but that is waterfowl( app.30 birds a year), turkey (1+), and deer (1+) a year.

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I bring 750 alone to deer camp for beer, broads and betting. Actual costs for equipment, gas, quad repair, stands, processing, clothing, calls, and everything else.....has to be in the 2,500 - 3 grand range.
No wonder I cant afford a new roof now........

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Club dues and licenses are around 600. So probably 1000 on a year when I don't get a new gun or bow or treestand.

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I refuse to answer this question on the grounds that it might incriminate me.. Well, in all honesty I am well over 2000 in the past 6 months but I was basically starting from scratch. heck, I am at over 1000 in bows alone and that is before arrows, sights, rests, clothes, bino's, rangefinders, tree stands... Might want to bump that o over 3000.... I think I will stop the math now, before I have to sell a kidney.

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i have no clue what i spend. my guess is maybe 600. last year i shot 5 deer so i aint complaining.

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I can't know that. I know nothing.............nothing. (My wife peeks in here from time to time.)

Uncle Matt (in IL)