Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire How much have you spent on hunting, fishing , hunts, equipment, etc?

Last couple years the only thing I have hunted is cock and a few sharptails.


Give the tribe $200 to shoot 7-8 birds on our own property.
(just to be legal, probably the only white guy around who pays up every year for both cock and general upland...)



That is basically my only expense.


And at the rate I currently shoot I have enough rifles and reloading chit to last me several lifetimes.



I wouldn't mind having a new spotter and a new camera.

And a 6.5 Fieldcraft with a can.

And a....



But lately all the 'extra' money goes to work related items!

I'm going to adhere to the Constitution and plead the 5th.

Never attempted to keep track. My hunting in the U.S. has all been on public land or free access to private. I hunted out of state in Colorado a few times, but overall, it's been fairly cheap. I hunted in Africa one year, and enjoyed it immensely, but if there were any way to quantify the pleasure/price ratio, hunting at home has been by far a better bargain. As stated above, it's been worth every penny.
Fishing is something else entirely. I'm a terrible fisherman, and get bored if I don't catch something the first hour so go exploring. I bought a boat about 15 years ago, and the price per fish is staggering.

I don't be thinking I would ever want the Mrs. to be reading this site. but
approx. $100 - $300 about covers it.
Oldcuss

I didn't get to do much hunting between 20 and 40, but the last 22 years I've pretty much made up for that in spades. Hunting and fishing are very expensive hobbies that require a lot of work.

Before I was married, I worked 2 jobs to have hunting money, and borrowed with mortgages when I built my house (rationalized I was paying me for my labor). Took me 2 dall hunts and $15k to kill a good ram. Another $7500 for a goat hunt, $8k for a bighorn hunt. Didn't get a ram, but spent got to meet scenarshooter. That doesn't include several wyoming and Colorado DIY hunts or hunts at home or neighboring states. Hunted Alaska a lot in my youth when my dad lived there. All in all its been money well spent. Wish I could do more.

This just brings to mind the old saying "I hope when I die my wife sells my stuff for what it's worth, not for what I told her it cost".

I was married once and what that and the divorce cost for 5 years of getting some none to often is simply staggering compared to hunting and fishing costs. So WGAF, I never in my life heard of anyone on their death bed saying they wished they hadn't hunted and fished so much, it's usually the opposite. I'll be god**mned if anyone is going to make feel bad for not spending more money on rubber dogshit made in china and bought at wallyworld. Huh, good thing I like cheap cold beer and a shot of good whiskey. No one should ever ANALyse their sporting costs., christ that's demeaning. MB

A boatload, literally. I have been lucky enough to have friends around the country who have invited me, those I repaid with guns, hay wagons, cattle guards, semis of baled hay, one of my crews went out and built a ranch house etc. add all that in and it gets really scarey.

Osky

I hate when these questions get asked.

I've wasted a lot of money in my life but nothing on hunting or fishing.

My plan is to wait 1 week before I die and trade off a tractor for a nice walleye boat.

You mean that Texas doesn’t have the same marital property act of 1977 like Wisconsin? The wife can recite it verbatim, so I’m not telling. She knows about the new handgun this morning, so I’m awaiting the conversation. Honey you can get a new handgun too won’t fly I’m afraid.

My wife thinks I have only spent a few dollars.

Not as much as I've spent maintaining a woman for 40 years... and I hunt and fish a chitload.

Kent

I don't even wanna think about it, and I really don't give a sheit.

My wife always went hunting with me, she loved it and would have been heartbroken if I had not taken her with me. Her Model 722 Remington .257 Roberts claimed a lot of deer, pronghorns and a few prairie dogs.

Haven't a clue what it cost and dont care, it was all priceless to me.

We are too old now, but that's ok, we had a great time.

Edit: Sometimes even now I will come home from the gunshow with something different than what I have, her reaction is something like: "Oh, what did you get, when can we go shoot it? "

You are on a need to know basis. And you don't need to know.

Boats and farms are expensive..... then all the cool toys to maximize my time. I wouldnt change a thing except having bigger boats and farms :-)

Now that is a woman.

The other day someone asked me if the hunting sport has been commercialized and i told him that i don't think so. the tradition is only pass down, little stronger and different tools but overall great. If i have to put a number to in i would i have spend up to $3000 hunting last october.