What does $390,000 buy?

[Shrek]

I don't have a problem with a very limited number of super special tags being auctioned off to support game management as long as it's not the only tag and the other tag is in the general draw. If there were only one tag for the island then I'm absolutely opposed to auctioning off the only access to the wealthy. A super tag for state wide needs to be a raffle with the price being low enough that anyone who could afford to travel around the state to hunt can afford one. IE $50 or less. As long as wealth can't buy exclusive access but only guaranteed access I'm ok with it.

 

[1hoda]

I look at it as the $$ goes back to benefit the outdoors and animals, so we all benefit from it. Does it cheapen the experience? Yes in my view it does (so does shooting a deer over a corn pile) but to each his own.

 

[Lukem]

Some might see killing it with a compound bow as "cheapening" it. The methods are all a matter of personal preference. Rifle with guides or barehands and blindfolded, really an entirely separate issue from the money that these tags bring to conservation organizations.

 

[jherald]

Must be nice to have that kind of money to just drop in the bucket for some hunting tags.

 

[jwb300]

No hunting pressure, only two tags a year starting a few years ago. Before that it was closed to hunting for a long time.

Thanks Muleman

 

[1hoda]

I don't have a problem with a very limited number of super special tags being auctioned off to support game management as long as it's not the only tag and the other tag is in the general draw. If there were only one tag for the island then I'm absolutely opposed to auctioning off the only access to the wealthy. A super tag for state wide needs to be a raffle with the price being low enough that anyone who could afford to travel around the state to hunt can afford one. IE $50 or less. As long as wealth can't buy exclusive access but only guaranteed access I'm ok with it.

Good point, I agree. That's the whole model of western conservation - game animals belong to the people of the states, not the European model where the game belongs to the landowner and only the wealthy have access.

 

[jmez]

I don't have a problem with the auction tags. The sales benefit the greater good. I'm not buying the tag so there is nothing about the process that cheapens it to me. To each his own and whatever makes them happy. I say good for someone that has 390K disposable dollars. We live in a capitalistic society and I believe in the system. Money affords opportunity.

 

[tipsntails7]

I don't have a problem with a very limited number of super special tags being auctioned off to support game management as long as it's not the only tag and the other tag is in the general draw. If there were only one tag for the island then I'm absolutely opposed to auctioning off the only access to the wealthy. A super tag for state wide needs to be a raffle with the price being low enough that anyone who could afford to travel around the state to hunt can afford one. IE $50 or less. As long as wealth can't buy exclusive access but only guaranteed access I'm ok with it.

I agree

 

[7mag.]

I don't have a problem with a very limited number of super special tags being auctioned off to support game management as long as it's not the only tag and the other tag is in the general draw. If there were only one tag for the island then I'm absolutely opposed to auctioning off the only access to the wealthy. A super tag for state wide needs to be a raffle with the price being low enough that anyone who could afford to travel around the state to hunt can afford one. IE $50 or less. As long as wealth can't buy exclusive access but only guaranteed access I'm ok with it.

I agree. I was going to say pretty much the same thing.