Wow, I had no idea hunting outside if your own backyard was so expensive.
Here in Saskatchewan, you buy a whitetail ticket for $10 probably get another as a “bonus”.
Muleys $10, sometimes another as a bonus.
$10 each for moose, elk, bears… whatever.
$5/ bullet lol
Im looking at hunting in BC, Alberta, and even down in the US… then I saw the prices.
$8,000 US for me to drive 10 hours and hunt a moose or elk.
$20,000-$30,000 to fly to BC and shoot a goat.
$70,000 to go.up to the Yukon and shoot a sheep.
Wtf!!!
You guys pay this?
I get it, $10/ticket and $5/bullet for hundreds of pounds of meat… great deal.
But $10,000… $50,000 for the head of a goat.
Is it a trophy-thing? Or, is this a once in a lifetime thing?
Im.not.oppsed to it. Im definitely not judging. Id LOVE to fly into Alaska and drop a grizzly. But damn!
Yall rich?
LOL
Someone explain this to me.
All.i.can think about is the time. Sure, $10 fir an elk, but people are only getting drawn once every 10 years. Is the money for the guaranteed ticket?
Not cheap for is to go to Sask either from here. We pay about $1000 for license and elk for a diy hunt in a place like Idaho or MT. Plus to get the chance I buy a license in New Mexico, Az, ID, Nv, Wy. That adds up - plus app fees and some like NM and ID you have to pay up front for a tag draw. A moose in ID is $2500 plus apps and license - up front. I am later in life and my chances are running out. I don’t have kids at home. But certainly not rich but not poor either. My sheep days are way behind me and off my bucket list. But I still have Africa.
PS
Idaho NR deer and elk sell out on first day of opening. If you get both it costs about $1200. Supply and demand.
Yeah…I finally had to accept one year that what I spend in bullets, gas, guns, gear, physical exhaustion, etc. just doesn’t make sense on paper. I could buy a lot of beef/pork/chicken for what I spend, but somehow the memories make it worth it.
The more expensive hunts are more appealing as I’ve gotten older and done better financially. I don’t want to leave this life with regrets of not chasing a dream. I’ll never be able to do the crazy expensive stuff, but $5-10K for extremely good or guaranteed hunting odds would be worth it to me now.
I do have the privilege of having 500 acres of private land that I have land owner tags for deer and elk that are 9 month long tags. That is my meat for the year. 1 elk that we split- so I get half and usually two deer. And what we don’t eat at start of next season gets made into some sort of sausage. Those tags are resident and cost about $35 for the elk. And only 20 minutes from house so not spending a lot for fuel to go there.
The out of state stuff is for memories with my bro, son and friends.
I know a bunch of guys who got moose in Newfoundland and it was pretty reasonable, like under $6k for room, board, guide and tag. Most guys got a moose. They did drive there but you only need one truck and a trailer split among you. There’s a ferry that takes I guess a day if you drive. Sometimes the ferry is disrupted by bad weather. There is an airport on the island and the guides will pick you up and of course they have trucks and ATVs so you could fly in and hunt. I’m not sure of the mechanics of getting your moose home.
There was a Backfired episode about a business that I think is in southern Utah where a guide kind of “coaches” a group of hunters through an Elk hunt but doesn’t guide everyone. That was pretty reasonably priced.
I’ve never done any of these “fancy” hunts. It’s not the same thing as trying to shoot a deer near your house for food. I guess it’s more like a deep sea fishing trip or going on a motorcycle trip in the Alps.
There is a window where some of us are old enough to have a little money and time to do a reasonably priced adventure hunt while we’re still fit enough (or can get in shape ha ha). I went on fishing trip where we took boats out to an island and camped and fished. The last morning a buddy of mine who’s older than me but much fitter and more experienced than me in the outdoors got up and said “That’s it. I’m not sleeping on the ground again.”
The problem is our minds can’t reconcile the age of our bodies. I just paid $3K to develop my pup into a chukar hunting dog. Not sure why? She is a good dog and maybe deserves more than I can give her. Realistic I am not going to be able to cover the ground needed to get her on lots of birds. She will get into some but my 10-15 mile humps are long gone.
This makes perfect sense. I keep forgetting that as I creep towards 50, and continue to gain weight, my body cant do these things anymore. At least, not without serious dedication to training.
Maybe youre all right, I should be saving for one of these, just in case my old ass decides to shut’er down.
I can always hunt for food at home. But when will I get out there and make memories?