How do you guys go on these cool hunts?

[11boo]

Gotta be a big chunk of us who live in elk country and get to go yearly.
Don’t try and compare yourself to that. Our resident tags are cheap, self guided is cheap.

 

[loganwayne]

That's how to do it. You'll be in much better shape than your peers if the bottom falls out of things like 2008.

I work in a market of construction that caters to extremely wealthy people. Most pay cash. So it is somewhat insulated from things like 2008 happening again, not that it cant. But we are also very close to a point where if it happens I could go work at Walmart and make ends meet. Wouldn't be doing what we do now but could easily survive.

 

[travh879]

I need some help and I don’t know who better to ask than the guys doing it so here goes. How do you guys achieve the time freedom and the financial freedom to go on these cool hunts. I’m in Arkansas working at a factory I have no kids but I have a wife and a mortgage and I pretty much only get to hunt what’s local to me like whitetail and ducks. I’m looking for adventure.

This industry has gotten very expensive and door knocking has fewer and fewer results due to leasing agencies. It's officially a pay-to-play world now unless you have access to some good public land. I've hunted some amazing public land in Ohio with views and experiences that you would pay a lot of money for if guided.

 

[NRA4LIFE]

Gotta be a big chunk of us who live in elk country and get to go yearly.
Don’t try and compare yourself to that. Our resident tags are cheap, self guided is cheap.

Yep, until this year when the prices got jacked up, I could buy a combo elk-deer-bear-cougar for $96. Now I think it's about $138. Still pretty cheap. All OTC with some limitations, spike elk only on the east side and 3 point min on mule deer. All cool hunts to me with my buddies.

 

[loganwayne]

Yep, until this year when the prices got jacked up, I could buy a combo elk-deer-bear-cougar for $96. Now I think it's about $138. Still pretty cheap. All OTC with some limitations, spike elk only on the east side and 3 point min on mule deer.

Dirt cheap compared to out of state. I'll spend more than that on fuel just to get to the Mississippi.
Then again I can go to the adjoining states and push killing 20 whitetail if I wanted to

 

[NRA4LIFE]

Dirt cheap compared to out of state. I'll spend more than that on fuel just to get to the Mississippi.
Then again I can go to the adjoining states and push killing 20 whitetail if I wanted to

Yes, I realized a few years ago I could buy all my permits here in WA, plus 3 in Mo and 1 in WI for less than 1 deer tag in MT. I don't hunt in MT anymore.