Outdoors card renewal complaining again

Some ppl think $180 is a great deal for small game/fishing/card++$. Overtime, I am very sure less and less hunters will pay the increasing fees and will eventually drop out of the game. I can already hear grumblings about costs and "it's not worth it anymore".
I know some past turkey hunters who are no longer willing to pay $25 + small game + $30 + for a turkey licence.
In 1982, I think I paid $4 for my first small game licence. For some hunters on poverty wages or disability, for whatever reason or lifestyle won't permit them to drop $180.
Is this sport only for the wealthy and will poaching increase?

I am not going to deer hunt next year ,,,,,,saves me 100$ 2 tags less

I hope the MNR reads this posts

Applied online Dec 6 morning for new card and small game licence, got new one today with the small game printed on the back, pretty good turnaround time!

One guy I know complains about hunting license fees, but golfs twice a week. Another one refuses to turkey hunt because he feels it should be part of our small game license fee, yet he spends his weekends on Georgian Bay in his cabin cruiser. Each of these other pastimes is exponentially more expensive than hunting. Its all depends what your real passion is.

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Originally Posted by bush24

Some ppl think $180 is a great deal for small game/fishing/card++$. Overtime, I am very sure less and less hunters will pay the increasing fees and will eventually drop out of the game. I can already hear grumblings about costs and "it's not worth it anymore".
I know some past turkey hunters who are no longer willing to pay $25 + small game + $30 + for a turkey licence.
In 1982, I think I paid $4 for my first small game licence. For some hunters on poverty wages or disability, for whatever reason or lifestyle won't permit them to drop $180.
Is this sport only for the wealthy and will poaching increase?

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In 1985 I paid $8500.00 for a brand new Tacoma, they have gone up but I'm still buying them. $60.00 a year to hunt and fish seems pretty cheap to me (how much would it cost for a family of four to go to the movies for a night?). Point is everything has gone up and relatively speaking $60.00 a year to get the enjoyment out of hunting and fishing that I get is an absolute no brainer.

I am sure that many of those grumbling could find some way to trim their budget by $60.00 a year to get a license.

And I completely disagree with your last statement. This year I offered up several free hunts to new hunters and the response was overwhelming and these were not "wealthy" people, most were half my age and I'm under 50. Hunting can be relatively cheap or as expensive as you want to make it.

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Originally Posted by ninepointer

One guy I know complains about hunting license fees, but golfs twice a week. Another one refuses to turkey hunt because he feels it should be part of our small game license fee, yet he spends his weekends on Georgian Bay in his cabin cruiser. Each of these other pastimes is exponentially more expensive than hunting. Its all depends what you real passion is.

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Amen brother!!

I just renewed my card, and for me as well as most others, I don't believe it is the fact that we are paying $180 for something we enjoy for 3 years.
It is the fact that we are paying someone to sit in an unneccesary hotel room on an unneccesary junket to drink $20.00 orange juice on our dime, wasting money that isn't being used as it was supposed to be used, for the good of the taxpayers.
John

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Originally Posted by jim

My rant as well. What an unfriendly sight. My wife and I are retired civil servants, and neither of us can figure it out. Who builds these sites?!

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Somebody who paid $5,000.00 for dinner with Wynne.