phantomak47
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Whatever ever your hunting for please explain what it is and how much it costs for the season. This can included tags, licenses, club fees. State where you are.
How much does it cost you to Hunt??
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Im in KY. After I get my license for 15 bucks, nothing really costs me anything. I hunt on public land or privately owned property (including my grandmother's farm). I do small game and pest hunting, so no big permit fees.
Heck, never though about it much. At 15 bucks for a year of happiness, sure beats going to the movies once!
Heck, never though about it much. At 15 bucks for a year of happiness, sure beats going to the movies once!
countertop
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In Virginia - hunt whatever. Have in state small game license, big game tag, national forest tag, waterfowl tag and fed waterfowl stamp. Total cost was something like $50. Plus ammo.
Was just out in Minnesota and South Dakota hunting pheasant. Not including airfare, it cost me $89 for out of state Minnesota small game licenses, pheasant stamp, and local licensing fee. thats for a full season. South Dakota charges $110 for a 10 day non resident license.
Finally, will be in Georgia over Christmas week. I've got a lot of property there, but they still force me to get the license. It will be another $85 or so. Hunting squirrel and deer.
Was just out in Minnesota and South Dakota hunting pheasant. Not including airfare, it cost me $89 for out of state Minnesota small game licenses, pheasant stamp, and local licensing fee. thats for a full season. South Dakota charges $110 for a 10 day non resident license.
Finally, will be in Georgia over Christmas week. I've got a lot of property there, but they still force me to get the license. It will be another $85 or so. Hunting squirrel and deer.
Mauserguy
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I voted for $500.00. The license and incidentals, the depreciation on my camping gear, gasoline, etc., can easily add up to that.
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carterbeauford
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PA hunting license is $20, land is free, only ammunition I regularly take game with are .22LR (varmint) and 30/30 (deer) so the cost is negligible. Did spend a couple hundred fixing up my treehouse and getting a new propane heater this year.
JohnBT
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Duck hunting - very expensive. License, Federal duck stamp, state duck stamp, blind licenses. Good thing we don't have to rent the large marsh we're hunting. My hunting buddy's lady friend rents the deer rights on her farm to a group of guys for $6000 a year. Big farm, they're only paying a couple dollars an acre.
So far $400 for good synthetic blind camo, a couple hundred for lumber to frame up 2 new blinds, $100 for a nice used chainsaw to cut up the storm-damaged docks at my friend's marina to get the decking to finish the blinds and build the boat hides (a storm blew a steel barge through the docks at the marina, so there's a lot of lumber around.) Good thing we already had the boat, motor, decoys, guns and ammo (I stocked up last year on Hevi-Shot.)
Now I'm depressed. Duck hunting really is like standing in a cold shower tearing up hundred dollar bills.
John
So far $400 for good synthetic blind camo, a couple hundred for lumber to frame up 2 new blinds, $100 for a nice used chainsaw to cut up the storm-damaged docks at my friend's marina to get the decking to finish the blinds and build the boat hides (a storm blew a steel barge through the docks at the marina, so there's a lot of lumber around.) Good thing we already had the boat, motor, decoys, guns and ammo (I stocked up last year on Hevi-Shot.)
Now I'm depressed. Duck hunting really is like standing in a cold shower tearing up hundred dollar bills.
John
islandphish
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went with over 1000.
Licenses: hunting permit, deer permit x 2, turkey license, stamps
Ammo: shotshells by the case for dove, Rifle ammo for practice and hunt
Gasoline: we all know how expensive this can get
and the most fun part....new equipment!!! gotta have this , gotta have that!!!
I'll gladly pay it.
btw, this is all in-state.
Licenses: hunting permit, deer permit x 2, turkey license, stamps
Ammo: shotshells by the case for dove, Rifle ammo for practice and hunt
Gasoline: we all know how expensive this can get
and the most fun part....new equipment!!! gotta have this , gotta have that!!!
I'll gladly pay it.
btw, this is all in-state.
Deer hunting will cost over $1000. The cost for hunting on the private land is $800 a week alone. Then there is lodging, food, beer, snacks, etc. Public land costs nothing to hunt on but you share it with way too many idiots. Having only 50 yds between hunters in places is not safe.
The cost of license, ammo, gear, etc is small stuff compared to paying land leases.
The cost of license, ammo, gear, etc is small stuff compared to paying land leases.
Loyalist Dave
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The license costs around $70 for everything including waterfowl with state and federal stamps here in Maryland. I buy steel shells in the Spring for the following year, and get them real cheap from Wally World. They cost about 90 cents a shot. Upland game and deer I use Black Powder so the cost is about 45 cents a shot. If I treat myself to quail hunting at a farm, I'd be bumped from the under $200 mark to the under $500 mark, as with gas and fees that's about $200 by itself.
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MCgunner
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Biggest costs is the hunting license and the gas I burn driving the 30 miles to my place. There's corn for the feeders, of course. Of course, every year I pay friggin' property taxes on my place. Maybe I should have added that in.
Duck hunting costs me a $48 public hunting permit and about half a box of steel shot each hunt plus the gas I burn driving 20 miles to the WMA. I don't count occasionally buying a decoy bag or something.
Duck hunting costs me a $48 public hunting permit and about half a box of steel shot each hunt plus the gas I burn driving 20 miles to the WMA. I don't count occasionally buying a decoy bag or something.
jamz
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$40 for a combo hunting/fishing license for the year.....
couple bucks for bullets so I can build my rounds and a few boxes of 20 guage shells....
every year I'll treat myself to something nice like a pair of binoculars, goretex upper or lower, a pair of gloves, a treestand or something like that.
couple bucks for bullets so I can build my rounds and a few boxes of 20 guage shells....
every year I'll treat myself to something nice like a pair of binoculars, goretex upper or lower, a pair of gloves, a treestand or something like that.
BigFatKen
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I was going to post this by just license fees
I pay a total when you add big game, small game, hogs it comes to a whopping $8.50 if I go to the Courthouse and get a County license.
If I go online and get a State license, it costs $11.50 + a $0.32 VISA charge. Since its not worth starting the car for $3, I got a State tag this year.
I would like to hear from a Wisconsin hunter who does this:
deer, gun
gun second tag
deer, archery
bear
small game
pheasant, turkey and other State stamps if any.
trapping
A conservation tag was $16.50 then $100, now who knows?
I pay a total when you add big game, small game, hogs it comes to a whopping $8.50 if I go to the Courthouse and get a County license.
If I go online and get a State license, it costs $11.50 + a $0.32 VISA charge. Since its not worth starting the car for $3, I got a State tag this year.
I would like to hear from a Wisconsin hunter who does this:
deer, gun
gun second tag
deer, archery
bear
small game
pheasant, turkey and other State stamps if any.
trapping
A conservation tag was $16.50 then $100, now who knows?
redneck2
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I was wise enough to get a lifetime license a number of years ago. $500 has saved $125+ in licenses for the last 8 years.
I shoot maybe 3-4 slugs a year or a few shots in my muzzle loader. Maybe $15/year for gas. A few .22's for squirrels, etc. I've had my bow for years and I use the same arrows.
This is for turkeys, deer, doves, pheasants, rabbits, crows, and anything else that's legal. On years that I duck hunt, I have to get Federal stamps.
I trade fishing access on my property for turkey hunting on his. Deer and small game are on family ground.
I shoot maybe 3-4 slugs a year or a few shots in my muzzle loader. Maybe $15/year for gas. A few .22's for squirrels, etc. I've had my bow for years and I use the same arrows.
This is for turkeys, deer, doves, pheasants, rabbits, crows, and anything else that's legal. On years that I duck hunt, I have to get Federal stamps.
I trade fishing access on my property for turkey hunting on his. Deer and small game are on family ground.
Lennyjoe
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$44 for the hunt/fish combo
$24.50 for rifle deer tag (refundable if not drawn)
$19.50 for the archery deer tag
$16.00 for the turkey tag
$83.00 for the elk tag (refunded cause I didnt get drawn)
$17.50 for the javalina tag (also refunded due to non selected)
So, this year it's cost me $44 + $24.50 + $19.50 + $16.00 = $104.
If I shoot a deer during rifle season then I'm out the $19.50 for the archery tag cause I can only take 1 deer a year in Arizona
Got drawn for a spring turkey to which I was sucessful.
$24.50 for rifle deer tag (refundable if not drawn)
$19.50 for the archery deer tag
$16.00 for the turkey tag
$83.00 for the elk tag (refunded cause I didnt get drawn)
$17.50 for the javalina tag (also refunded due to non selected)
So, this year it's cost me $44 + $24.50 + $19.50 + $16.00 = $104.
If I shoot a deer during rifle season then I'm out the $19.50 for the archery tag cause I can only take 1 deer a year in Arizona
Got drawn for a spring turkey to which I was sucessful.
dragongoddess
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My license cost is zero since I'm a disabled vet.
22-rimfire
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Most of you are truly minimizing your actual costs to hunt. You have to figure in your firearm cost, scope, ATV, ammunition to practice, gas, motel, food, license fees, butcher cost, that climbing stand you just bought this year, clothing, scouting costs, chain saw (if you bought one because of hunting), footware, those electronic game ears or muffs, lease fees, scents, etc. Yes, I know that some of this is spread over a number of seasons. But the cost is far more than $200 even if you hunt on public land. I would venture to say that you spend in excess of $1,000 a year on new equipment, firearms etc. and travel costs.
Why do you think places like Cabela's sell so much stuff? Same kind of analysis goes toward fly fishing and golf. The cost is substantial if you include everything.
Why do you think places like Cabela's sell so much stuff? Same kind of analysis goes toward fly fishing and golf. The cost is substantial if you include everything.
Essex County
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I said free although a resident hunting licence is about 15 bucks....Essex
JohnBT
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"I would venture to say that you spend in excess of $1,000 a year on new equipment, firearms etc. and travel costs."
I spent over $1100 a few years ago on ONE Cabela's order. And I didn't get any guns or ammo.
I spent less than $750 last November on a SX-2 Waterfowl, but recovered a little of it when I sent a 4-year-old Columbia OmniQuad parka back to Cabela's because the shoulder seam leaked. I went ahead and bought a new one for $219 and then they sent me the entire $269 I'd paid for the leaky one. Forty bucks, about the cost of a box or two of ammo these days.
Duck hunting ammo? I shoot Hevi-Shot and I don't want to know the total cost. I just buy a few boxes here and a few boxes there so I don't have to buy 20 or 30 boxes at one time at $18 each. Now I see it's doubled in price.
I'm a sitting duck. Quack.
John
I spent over $1100 a few years ago on ONE Cabela's order. And I didn't get any guns or ammo.
I spent less than $750 last November on a SX-2 Waterfowl, but recovered a little of it when I sent a 4-year-old Columbia OmniQuad parka back to Cabela's because the shoulder seam leaked. I went ahead and bought a new one for $219 and then they sent me the entire $269 I'd paid for the leaky one. Forty bucks, about the cost of a box or two of ammo these days.
Duck hunting ammo? I shoot Hevi-Shot and I don't want to know the total cost. I just buy a few boxes here and a few boxes there so I don't have to buy 20 or 30 boxes at one time at $18 each. Now I see it's doubled in price.
I'm a sitting duck. Quack.
John
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Not sure I really want to know....
When our two sons lived at home, all three of us would hunt several states each year. Cost of guns, licenses, clothes, food, transportation, taxidermy, meat processing, etc....ran well into five figures. One year in particular we hunted seven different states, many good memories from those trips.
Now I spend a couple of thousand each year, doesn't take long to add up. Doesn't include the cost of buying hunting property and the expenses associated with it.
When our two sons lived at home, all three of us would hunt several states each year. Cost of guns, licenses, clothes, food, transportation, taxidermy, meat processing, etc....ran well into five figures. One year in particular we hunted seven different states, many good memories from those trips.
Now I spend a couple of thousand each year, doesn't take long to add up. Doesn't include the cost of buying hunting property and the expenses associated with it.
wolfe28
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Processing costs?
My wife and I live in an appartment in the city, so if I go hunting here at home, I'll need to have somebody process the deer (lets use deer as a benchmark). How much should it cost me to have that done? Is there a reasonable range to expect? I know that I could do it myself if I had the time, space (the big problem), and someone to walk me through it once or twice.
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My wife and I live in an appartment in the city, so if I go hunting here at home, I'll need to have somebody process the deer (lets use deer as a benchmark). How much should it cost me to have that done? Is there a reasonable range to expect? I know that I could do it myself if I had the time, space (the big problem), and someone to walk me through it once or twice.
D
JesseL
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22-rimfire said:
Hmmm...
firearm - free (inherited)
scope - free (inherited)
ATV - I don't use one.
ammunition - reloaded (cheap)
gas - would be about $10, but I ride with my Father-in-law.
motel - I hunt within 30 minutes from home.
food - I gotta eat whereever I go, how is that a hunting cost?
license fees - about $40
butcher - I'll let you know what it costs when I take something to the butcher.
climbing stand - don't have one.
clothing - I don't usually go anywhere naked, and the clothes i wear hunting aren't anything special.
scouting costs - ???
chain saw - I don't use a chainsaw, but the on I have was inherited.
footwear - Christmas gift.
Electronic muffs - I don't use them.
Lease fees - I hunt public land.
scents - I don't use them.
scout26
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Just went through this exercise with Mrs. Scout this morning:
"How much you do you need for Deer Camp."
Licence, tags: right at $100 for Sportsmen (hunting and fishing) Licence with Habitat Stamp ($26.39), two firearm deer tags ($31.39), two archery deer tags (really one Combo tag $26.39), and an archery turkey tag ($6.50).
Camp fees: Campground cost $40 -$50 per person for the week, depending on how many people are in camp.
Gas: $60
Food: $50 (Everyone makes/brings one big meal, either Breakfast or Dinner Lunch consists of a a couple of PBJ sandwiches in your pack.)
Deer Processing: It's $50 for all steaks and burger. We'll get some jerky, slimjims, bacon and brats. Figure roughly $60-70 per deer, probably $250 total if I punch all four tags. (distinct possiblity where we hunt.)
Miscellaneous: $200, We might go to the riverboat one night, or a pheasant hunt one afternoon. Probably come back with most it. (I'm not a big gambler.)
All the other stuff, didn't buy any new clothes/toys this year. So that's $0.
Ammo: Got 6 boxes of Winchester Platnium slugs for a net cost $26 at Dick's "Yes, We're Idiots" Sporting Goods.
So total for the week ~$500
Got a couple of Pheasant Hunts planned and those run about $75-$100 for the day.
"How much you do you need for Deer Camp."
Licence, tags: right at $100 for Sportsmen (hunting and fishing) Licence with Habitat Stamp ($26.39), two firearm deer tags ($31.39), two archery deer tags (really one Combo tag $26.39), and an archery turkey tag ($6.50).
Camp fees: Campground cost $40 -$50 per person for the week, depending on how many people are in camp.
Gas: $60
Food: $50 (Everyone makes/brings one big meal, either Breakfast or Dinner Lunch consists of a a couple of PBJ sandwiches in your pack.)
Deer Processing: It's $50 for all steaks and burger. We'll get some jerky, slimjims, bacon and brats. Figure roughly $60-70 per deer, probably $250 total if I punch all four tags. (distinct possiblity where we hunt.)
Miscellaneous: $200, We might go to the riverboat one night, or a pheasant hunt one afternoon. Probably come back with most it. (I'm not a big gambler.)
All the other stuff, didn't buy any new clothes/toys this year. So that's $0.
Ammo: Got 6 boxes of Winchester Platnium slugs for a net cost $26 at Dick's "Yes, We're Idiots" Sporting Goods.
So total for the week ~$500
Got a couple of Pheasant Hunts planned and those run about $75-$100 for the day.
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ChefJeff1
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In ID it is very inexpensive. LIcenses are about $50 which includes fishing and steelhead tags. I hunt on blm that is literally across the street from my house. I got my first mule deer up there this year.
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