Wyoming Non Resident Preference Point Increase

[Colorado Cowboy]

Wyoming's Fish & Game voted Tuesday to increase non residents preference point fee to $75.00 effective Jan 1, 2027. This is the maximum allowed by their legislature.
Residents pay only for sheep, goat and moose points which is $7.00. All other big game have no points.

 

[HairyScandinavian]

Dangit

 

[fisherman983]

Buncha ******* culls

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[cnelk]

A 66.66% increase
UffDa

 

[Colorado Cowboy]

I only buy deer and antelope tags and have enough to draw both. I am waiting to get the results from my Colorado applications before I apply for Wyoming. It takes 4 to 5 to draw either one. If I use them I probably won't be applying for Wyoming again. I will be 85 in a couple of months and I can draw tags for Colorado pretty much every year. Who knows what the changes in 2028 will do to the drawing of tags here in Colorado.
You younger folks have my sympathies. I remember when I started hunting Wyoming 50 years ago then a non resident could get a deer or antelope tag every year and you could get as many as 5 (or maybe 6) antlerless tags over the counter for $5.00 apiece.

 

[sierracharlie338]

As someone stacking points but not enough to draw that’s disappointing to hear.

 

[fisherman983]

We need to start publicly hanging and shooting these people.

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[HairyScandinavian]

I only buy deer and antelope tags and have enough to draw both. I am waiting to get the results from my Colorado applications before I apply for Wyoming. It takes 4 to 5 to draw either one. If I use them I probably won't be applying for Wyoming again. I will be 85 in a couple of months and I can draw tags for Colorado pretty much every year. Who knows what the changes in 2028 will do to the drawing of tags here in Colorado.
You younger folks have my sympathies. I remember when I started hunting Wyoming 50 years ago then a non resident could get a deer or antelope tag every year and you could get as many as 5 (or maybe 6) antlerless tags over the counter for $5.00 apiece.

Yeah I've been buying deer, Elk, and antelope points and I do have enough to draw a decent antelope and I've never been deer (mile) hunting. Might do both this year and quit with those. I'll probably suck it up and keep buying the Elk points though, have to this year anyway because the deadline passed.

 

[NRA4LIFE]

This would be another reason to abandon WY. I did so over 20 years ago. I hate those MF's.

 

[IDElkmagnet]

I hopefully cashed my elk points this year and figured Id do it again in 10 or so years. But buying another 10 elk points then hitting my unit on the $2000 special draw has me thinking I'd feel like the prettiest guy in the prison knowing how bad wyoming will have reamed me out.

 

[BRTreedogs]

I only buy deer and antelope tags and have enough to draw both. I am waiting to get the results from my Colorado applications before I apply for Wyoming. It takes 4 to 5 to draw either one. If I use them I probably won't be applying for Wyoming again. I will be 85 in a couple of months and I can draw tags for Colorado pretty much every year. Who knows what the changes in 2028 will do to the drawing of tags here in Colorado.
You younger folks have my sympathies. I remember when I started hunting Wyoming 50 years ago then a non resident could get a deer or antelope tag every year and you could get as many as 5 (or maybe 6) antlerless tags over the counter for $5.00 apiece.

What were wages 50 years ago?
What did a new pickup cost ?

 

[fisherman983]

What were wages 50 years ago?
What did a new pickup cost ?

I know in 2012, I bought a leftover deer tag, cow elk tag, 1 any antelope tag and 3 doe tags and had the option of buying a second leftover any antelope tag and a 4th doe tag and I should have. I filled 5 tags in 4 days, skipped the cow elk tag as plans didnt work out for that.

Doe tags were $34, any lope was $226? And the deer was 347 or something like that. It was very affordable.

And I could have bought as many doe whitetail tags as I wanted had i found them on public land. This was all as a non resident. Times sure have changed

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