Hunting Tips and Tricks to SAVE money and hunt more

[87TT]

I saw the like button, but couldn’t find the “ignorant response” one.

When you find it, let me know so I can use it on yours.

 

[Gnatboy911]

I live in western CO, so I'm fortunate to have pretty good hunting right from my house. I'd love to travel around the state and hunt other areas, but right now with a toddler and baby at home, and the wife not working I'm limited to what I can hunt from the front door.

I just get as many tags as I can on 2nd choice and not burn any points for anything that isn't close to home. Just day hunts from the house. Except my fortunate luck on getting a mountain goat tag this year, I have 2 elk, 2 deer, and a bear tag I can hunt without going anywhere. Just takes a bunch of research into getting 2nd choice options.

 

[16Bore]

Welfare, food stamps, and social justice.....very nice.

 

[5MilesBack]

Welfare, food stamps, and social justice.....very nice.

They aren't very nice in my world.

He was joking......but I didn't see anything ignorant about what he said. Seems about par for the country these days.

 

[USMC-40]

Booking trips years out and finding a good friend to go along seems to lessen the burden (saved for 5 years to hunt sheep in AK, still expensive, but my wife didn’t even notice until they sent a statement to my house with the ‘total paid’).

brings me to my next point, have all hunting invoices and hunting gear shipped to me at work, that way the goalie is less likely to become aware.

this habit ain’t cheap, but it ain’t hookers and cocaine either. She should be so lucky...

 

[.204smokechaser]

1) Don't eat out

2) Work in the woods to be able to scout a lot for hunting locally.

3) no need for expensive camo when you can buy good pants on Amazon for a lot less $

4) look for pro deals through employer

5) As others said, buy a truck and get a canopy so you can sleep in the back of it when needed.

6) If you get lucky and get an animal, a few nights or a 30 rack and a few buddies in an afternoon is a lot cheaper than paying a butcher. I just got my elk done for about $50.

7) A cheap savage rifle and scope package kills elk just as well as a $2000 rifle.

 

[jspradley]

DIY hunts
Process your own game
Buy kneepads and work the street corner
Buy good gear at a good deal

 

[CorbLand]

Buy kneepads and work the street corner

STOP GIVING AWAY MY SECRETS!

If you keep telling people I am going to be forced to lower my rates for 75 cents to 50.

 

[S.Clancy]

1) Don't eat out
2) Actually, just try to eat as little as possible. My monthly food budget (1 person) is routinely $120-$150 (includes beer). Also, dehydrate your own meals.
3) Drink cheap beer, not drinking is impractical
4) Buy clearance items for everything, hunting gear buy almost nothing (I average maybe 1 piece of gear a year outside of boots, boots are my weakness)
5) 1 rifle
6) Drive a fuel efficient, inexpensive, reliable hatchback most of the time.
7) Accept misery and sleep in a tent.
8) Don't pay to have your meat packed out or processed.
9) Make hunting your vacations
10) This is really the most important, but build skills instead of the gear closet. Skills are generally free (not counting time of course) and they will last a lot longer than that $700 Sitka whatever jacket or a $50,000 pickup.

 

[Foldem]

1. Don't live in Colorado

 

[Rob5589]

Buy kneepads and work the street corner

WAIT! That was a dude...?!

 

[16Bore]

They aren't very nice in my world.

He was joking......but I didn't see anything ignorant about what he said. Seems about par for the country these days.

Then we should be under par, that’s 24 HR Campfire kinda bullshit.

 

[Poser]

Have friends who play the points game. Tag along as a 2nd on their premium draw hunts.

 

[Lucas]

1. I recently discovered a 20lb bag of ice is $1.99 at Costco. Saves me alot of money.
2. Investing in meat processing equipment.
3. Buying a Dehydrator to save costs on food while hunting.

What is a good economical dehydrator that you would recommend?

 

[rsiwuda]

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[5MilesBack]

Then we should be under par, that’s 24 HR Campfire kinda bullshit.

Cracking a joke is 24 HR Campsite kinda BS??? Hmmmmm.......I might have to check it out. People get wound a little too tight on here sometimes.

 

[amassi]

Don’t buy points in multiple states. Figure one state out.

Buy something and use it up.

This is a great way to save thousands on lotto points for hunts you many never draw. Robbies book on trophy mule deer covers this too

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[amassi]

Stop looking on rokslide

A very expensive forum
Last year alone the "deals" thread must have cost me the equivalent of a couple rifles

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[Buffalo0922]

6) If you get lucky and get an animal, a few nights or a 30 rack and a few buddies in an afternoon is a lot cheaper than paying a butcher. I just got my elk done for about $50.




You don't know how much beer my friends can drink! But it's still more fun to process meat at home!



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[Dos Perros]

If I were to take all the time and effort I spend perfecting how I execute an incredibly frugral elk hunt, and apply it at work, I'd probably get promoted a couple times and just buy a New Mexico land owner's tag every year. I should probably do that.