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Ok, no problem.

I sort of lost my place with you. I was posting in threads on 3 forums. I didn't mean to get short with you. We normally get along ok.

If someone is gouging for 22LR ammo all you hear is "your [bleep] the working guys/kids" or "we need to stick together to drive prices down" or "don't buy at high prices and keep supporting these high prices" or.....

I guess the same rules don't apply to non-resident tags. It's pay up or shut up.

Dink

There's no such thing as price gouging.

All you have to do is compare NR elk tag prices.
Texas-priceless, as in no matter how much money you have, or how big your hat is, you can not purchase one.
Missouri- priceless, as in no matter how much money you have, or how loudly you whine, you can not purchase one.
Even if you have Swaro binos and a Sako.
Colorado will be 450 cow or 586 for bull
Montana is 273 cow or 809 bull
Wyoming is 288 cow or 577 bull

Suddenly Colorado and all the rest seem a real bargain for non-res elk hunters, when compared to priceless.

Actually you can purchase elk and elk hunts in Texas. I didn't travel to Colorado for the elk themselves, but rather for the experience to hunt them on the NATIONAL FOREST.

Can Colorado charge nonresidents anything they want? Yes.
Do residents have a right to hunt on Federal land? No.
How would Colorado residents react if hunting on federal land cost $586?

Hunting on Federal Land has nothing to do with it. We can all do that.

Colorado owns the animals. That's what the NR are paying extra to hunt.

Stalker....

Rumor is 2016 for elk tags here.

Dink

This is what needs to happen.

Any unit more than 50% federal ground everyone pays the same price for tags. States can set the limit on tags and the price. I bet a bull tag is not $600 anymore.

Dink

Pack your pipe with some Borkum Riff and head on up to bed.....because that's a pipe dream if I ever heard one.

Right, for three people.

Thank Jebus that DINK doesn't have a say in tag and management policies. Bull tags in GMU 10 and 201 would be stocking stuffers, and everybody from Missouri would get to road-hunt the Montana backcountry. Roads and stands for EVERYONE!

Tanner

All it takes is for Non-residents to ban together and decide we have had enough of being gouged. There are way more non-resident hunters than western states have residents.

No one thought Obama care would pass either....

Dink

Tanner,

Your young and I hope everything you want works out for you. But you will have different opinion if end up somewhere other than Colorado. When your married with two or three rug rats that want to hunt Colorado will be when your opinion changes would be my guess.

Dink

Yeah; that'll happen

Dink let's take a look at your state Missouri. $17.00 for a resident deer tag. $225 for a NR tag why that's 13X what a resident pays. By comparison Colorado elk NR tags are a bargain. Maybe Colorado isn't charging enough for NR tags.

Tx Hunter let's take a look at your state Texas. $25 for a resident, $315 for a NR resident hunting license. That's more than 12X for a NR license. More than what Colorado Charges.

What magnification spotter do you need to read the ear tags?
Do you aim for the collar, or just behind it?

Lots of elk in Texas and you can't purchase an elk license here because you don't even need a elk tag to shoot one. But I could kill an elk tomorrow less than 10 miles from my home. I would never shoot one behind a high fence, but if one ever walks through my property, I would probably shoot it. Course they is a drop in the bucket compared to the numbers you guys have.

In fact, I got to help trap, blood test and radio collar some of the actual wild elk in West Texas ( free ranging and living in the Glass mountains). That was a blast! We are trying to get them classified as a game animal, but that is an uphill battle.

And yes, Monatana has a reasonable price for cow elk. Of course Mauser and I won't be hunting bulls there because that price in "ridiculus" in our opinion.

"Ban" together and do what?

I didn't really have an attitude towards NR hunters until this thread.

Most NR hunters are not like the few whiners on this thread.