True confessions
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Arlington Wa USA
Posts: 40
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 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...
Please include how long you hunt and lets limit the alcohol to around two bottles
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 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...
Please include how long you hunt and lets limit the alcohol to around two bottles
#6
RE: True confessions
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.
#7
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: SE Pennsylvania
Posts: 539
RE: True confessions
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).
#8
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Georgetown, Texas
Posts: 528
RE: True confessions
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.