Midwest Non-resident Deer License $$$
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Midwest Non-resident Deer License $$$
Iowa has a $428 Non-resident deer license fee total going through the state legislature for 2006.
Illinois has started to pass a $504.25 NR deer license fee total for 2005.
Wisconsin raised its NR deer license to $160 in 2004.
Minnesota started a $135 minimum reciprocal NR charge for 2005.
Illinois has started to pass a $504.25 NR deer license fee total for 2005.
Wisconsin raised its NR deer license to $160 in 2004.
Minnesota started a $135 minimum reciprocal NR charge for 2005.
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RE: Midwest Non-resident Deer License $$$
I see IL, IA, KS and some other big buck states starting a price war! Hunting is certainly pricing the workin' class man right out of the sport. [&:]
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Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Pulaskiville
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RE: Midwest Non-resident Deer License $$$
Ohio is still cheap...($125 + $20/deer, up to 3 in some parts)...and we're producing some of the biggest deer on earth.
We also have hundreds of square miles of public land...Some doesn't receive much pressure especially during bow.
We also have hundreds of square miles of public land...Some doesn't receive much pressure especially during bow.
#6
Join Date: Mar 2004
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RE: Midwest Non-resident Deer License $$$
My in-laws live in East Central Ill. I have had the opportunity to hunt there twice before I decided it was out of my budget. I make an above average salary, but to pay $700 to fly my family of three out, $700 to rent a car for a week, and the $300 or so for the tag and license was not worth it.
The first time it was not too unreasonable at about $250 tag and license, then they capped the NR's and I ended up buying a Turkey tag to be in the woods the following year, my brother in law was going to tag the deer if I shot it. The following year the price jumped to $356 for the tag and $50 for the license.
I think they will figure this out when the NR numbers drop, and the deer population continues to climb, without the additional NR hunters the DNR willl not harvest their quota and they will continue to see more vehicle kills, crop damage, and starvation.
I like the idea of earn a buck programs to increase the harvest of the does, but keep the fees reasonable.
The first time it was not too unreasonable at about $250 tag and license, then they capped the NR's and I ended up buying a Turkey tag to be in the woods the following year, my brother in law was going to tag the deer if I shot it. The following year the price jumped to $356 for the tag and $50 for the license.
I think they will figure this out when the NR numbers drop, and the deer population continues to climb, without the additional NR hunters the DNR willl not harvest their quota and they will continue to see more vehicle kills, crop damage, and starvation.
I like the idea of earn a buck programs to increase the harvest of the does, but keep the fees reasonable.
#7
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Iowa
Posts: 779
RE: Midwest Non-resident Deer License $$$
wow, and i thought my $30 for hunting lisences and $30/tag was expensive. I agree that the dnr will soon realize prices are too high, but do you think they will decrease them or just not increase them anymore?
#8
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Bureau County Illinois
Posts: 605
RE: Midwest Non-resident Deer License $$$
I'm sure the DNR's feeling about NR's and the deer herd is that most NR's are coming to shoot bucks and not does so they feel that it will have little affect on deer herd populations. I even want to say at one of the hearings farm bureau was saying that they needed unlimted tags for NR's to control the population but the DNR responded that was the reason for the antlerless tags being unlimted at $25 a pop. Of course, not many people are going to pay the rest of the fees involved to hunt, travel 500+ miles just to shoot a doe.
Is the fee a bit much? Yeah but they are not going to drop it anytime soon. The people who set the prices and policies are politicians and until they see a huge drop off in demand they won't budge. The NR's without a lot of money are going to be the first so suffer and than it will be the residents who don't have a lot of money or have family with land because they won't be able to afford leasing. Already starting. Still puiblic land to hunt but there is not a lot of acres per hunter available in Illinois.
Is the fee a bit much? Yeah but they are not going to drop it anytime soon. The people who set the prices and policies are politicians and until they see a huge drop off in demand they won't budge. The NR's without a lot of money are going to be the first so suffer and than it will be the residents who don't have a lot of money or have family with land because they won't be able to afford leasing. Already starting. Still puiblic land to hunt but there is not a lot of acres per hunter available in Illinois.
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RE: Midwest Non-resident Deer License $$$
Pro-Line
I yeah I think your right I would love to see every one go to Ohio instead of IL.
Realy if these $ keep going up in other states it wont be long and the same will happen there.
We as residents should do what we can to try and keep our states fees down it will end up like the western states where they would rather sell a tag to a NR then its own people becuase of the money.
I yeah I think your right I would love to see every one go to Ohio instead of IL.
Realy if these $ keep going up in other states it wont be long and the same will happen there.
We as residents should do what we can to try and keep our states fees down it will end up like the western states where they would rather sell a tag to a NR then its own people becuase of the money.
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Join Date: Feb 2004
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RE: Midwest Non-resident Deer License $$$
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Iowa has a $428 Non-resident deer license fee total going through the state legislature for 2006.
Illinois has started to pass a $504.25 NR deer license fee total for 2005.
Wisconsin raised its NR deer license to $160 in 2004.
Minnesota started a $135 minimum reciprocal NR charge for 2005.
Iowa has a $428 Non-resident deer license fee total going through the state legislature for 2006.
Illinois has started to pass a $504.25 NR deer license fee total for 2005.
Wisconsin raised its NR deer license to $160 in 2004.
Minnesota started a $135 minimum reciprocal NR charge for 2005.