Newberg says a $40 elk tag (or whatever it cost) is a $25,000 elk tag for residents.

[SteveAndTheCrigBoys]

Agree.

Notably, HT has a thread on this. 24 pages!!!

Roksliders hunt.
HuntTalkers talk.

The last thread on the same topic on here was 26 pages, over 500 posts

 

[fngTony]

This is called your personal choice.
This might surprise you, but the wind blows in Illinois too.

Tornadoes don’t count

Yeah, I’m pretty sure you could work at copper mountain, live in employee housing and get a resident license.

Yes but you’re not making any surplus money. Employees used to live in a trailer park in Leadville but now it’s cheaper to live in their car illegally parked somewhere in Silverthorne.

 

[SteveAndTheCrigBoys]

 

[tpicou]

Please keep it civil or I’m going to contact my senator and representative and have them vote yes on turning all BLM land into solar farms.

 

[MuleyFever]

 

[HingleMcCringleberry]

Can't we all just get along?

 

[Swamp Fox]

Didn't read the whole stupid thread.


If RN's point is that the value of a tag is more than $12, he's a phuckin' genius, but not the first one.

Not sure where you go beyond that .

 

[chanson_roland]

Please keep it civil or I’m going to contact my senator and representative and have them vote yes on turning all BLM land into solar farms.

I'm typing out a letter as we speak to my reps arguing that we should release wild hogs in the Mountain States and call them "Spanish Elk"...

 

[MuleDeerMike]

I live in San Diego, the least affordable city in the USA. Sounds like I should pay the lowest for an elk tag.

Lol right. I live in Washington, Montana and Idaho should let me buy a tag for 5 bucks.

 

[bradmacmt]

I didn't listen/watch the Newberg stuff but it ain't that expensive to live in Cheyenne, Boise, Bozeman, insert any big blue city in Western states...

By comparing it to Cheyenne or Boise, you clearly know nothing about how expensive Bozeman is...

Median Home Price January 2024:

Cheyenne - $425,000
Boise - 495,000
Bozeman - $762,000

Not all Western states are the same, and certainly not all Western towns and cities are the same. When I came to Bozeman over 30 years ago the saying was " half the paycheck is the view." Wages were LOW here for many years, and only recently have caught up with other comparably sized towns of 50K people. Having said that, my daughter is a nurse but can't really afford to live here where she was raised. She lives in Billings because the pay is more there than here, and housing is significantly less.

 

[go_deep]

This is called your personal choice.
This might surprise you, but the wind blows in Illinois too.

Oooh, everything blows in Illinois.

 

[Douglasr]

Tornadoes don’t count

Yes but you’re not making any surplus money. Employees used to live in a trailer park in Leadville but now it’s cheaper to live in their car illegally parked somewhere in Silverthorne.

I owned a home in Illinois and worked there as a creepy 30 year old lift op for 2 years.
I lived in my car/tent illegally north of Silverthorne, but if you took it seriously, you could have surplus money and afford a few (15 elk tags per month).

 

[S.Clancy]

I'll make you a deal. When I show up with the millions I've saved for retirement and bid up the land you wanted to buy for my retirement pad you have forfeited your right to bitch about it.

Well, you'll be late to the party in MT at least.

 

[WhatToHunt]

Oooh, everything blows in Illinois.

Everything?! I'm packing up my bags. Wife and I are on our way right now to see if this holds true.

 

[go_deep]

Everything?! I'm packing up my bags. Wife and I are on our way right now to see if this holds true.

Well, if you take your wife with, there's a chance... Watch out for the chicks with a bump that are all about it though.

 

[Swamp Fox]

I'm typing out a letter as we speak to my reps arguing that we should release wild hogs in the Mountain States and call them "Spanish Elk"...

Some folks around here think they can identify Spanish pigs here today from the 16th century ... I shit you not.

You'd have to be on an island, or off in the ozone.

 

[tpicou]

I'm typing out a letter as we speak to my reps arguing that we should release wild hogs in the Mountain States and call them "Spanish Elk"...

I think we should reintroduce some more wolves too. Need to pump those numbers up!

 

[tdhanses]

Most of those tax payers don't hunt so in turn don't give a sh!t about nr ability to hunt out of state and don't care about the amount nr are allocated. They just care about the ability to recreate how they see fit and they can ski and hike and mountian bike drive through national parks all they want.

The tax argument is dumb when you look at how many hunters there are as a whole and then how many of those hunters are traveling hunters the fact is every tax payer is paying for NR hunters to have the ability to hunt out of state and be provided these opportunities nr hunters don't pay the 47 cents extra Montana get its mainly funded by non hunters that can use the resources they want just fine

CO annually gets 25% of MT’s population in NR hunters in the state, maybe 45% of WY’s population. NR numbers are pretty high if you look at all 50 states sales. Bet they all pay federal taxes.

If WY offered 300k NR licenses, it would sell out.

 

[tdhanses]

Y’all getting nervous about Colo going to all draw?

Naw, rifle will still be OTC which is crazy.

 

[Douglasr]

I owned a home in Illinois and worked there as a creepy 30 year old lift op for 2 years.
I lived in my car/tent illegally north of Silverthorne, but if you took it seriously, you could have surplus money and afford a few (15 elk tags per month).
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@chasewild
This is why avid-I took me on as his apprentice.
Bring me up to Alaska.
I’m ready for it.