Landowner tags have increased in price in recent years. When we started out they were going for something like $4,500... but over the last couple of years they've been as high as $7,000-$7,500. Our strategy has been to have all of those planning to hunt in a particular year apply in the random drawing, and then if someone does draw we buy landowner tags for the others and split that cost across all of those hunting. While random drawing odds for non-residents are awful, we have been successful a couple of times in making this strategy work and spreading the cost for landowner tags across two or three of us. Since in other western states with preference point systems it can take 20 years or longer to have a good chance of drawing a tag in a premium unit, we decided that the cost of landowner tags if needed was something we needed to be prepared to deal with if we wanted to hunt every year. And, by hunting year after year in the same areas we've learned a great deal about where we need to be (and how to get there) -- information we'll be ready to share in full detail with whoever ends up buying the property.
