Originally Posted by DINK
Originally Posted by SKane
Originally Posted by Seven0Eight
I always laugh when people complain about tag prices then come to find they own 16 "all-around" rifles


A lot of guys in my neck of the woods that fit this bill. Toss in the new truck every two or three years - same for four wheelers etc.


I look at it differently. Montana doesn't require $50,000 trucks or a safe full of rifles to hunt there. But they do require I buy a $600 deer tag or a $1000 elk combo tag to hunt on land I already paid for.

Even a youth tag is $505.

I live pretty cheap and can afford to pay it but damn...it shouldn't cost me almost $1700 in tags just to take my boys on a public land deer hunt.

Hunting public land should not only be for the wealthy.

Dink


"em this was settled some time ago with the Supreme court ruling the wild animals belonging to the people of the state they reside in. Why do you keep beating a dead horse. You are not paying to hunt public land, but to hunt the animals on that public land. In WY you can't hunt wilderness areas without a guide, so there you might have a point, but not in MT.