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.
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