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Weird, this is the first year I've bought my hunting license and applied for tags in 14 years. Time to get back into shooting some food. Racing got too expensive
I've never shot sage rats either. Went and shot rabbits once when I was like 8
I could wall paper a house with un filled tags and applications that got me nothing.
Besides, turkey, squirrels, rabbits, coyotes...there is so much more than just deer. Even if you don't bag anything a day in the woods is better than a day on the golf course in my book.
Well its pretty easy to get away from people. Get away from the clear cuts & roads. That's where most people congregate.
Thanks for that info.
So far I have gotten several middle aged guys into hunting and now they have way more guns than I do! It was a case where their families didn't hunt so they never learned how - I asked them along and trained them on safety and basic skills and I believe they will stick with it.
Fuel prices, cost of licensing, fear of being shot by people who have no business owning firearms, L.E.O. who are way to enthusiastic about trying to find a reason to ruin my hunting experience. Back in the day.. when i was young, you didnt need a wad of cash to go harvest some meat.. its just easier, cheaper and safer to go buy my meat from the store.
To pay for additional road closure programs, Environmental Projects designed to reduce hunting opportunities, the multitudes of 'Wildlife Biologists' who count the deer and say the same two things why their numbers are declining, "The poach take is as much as or higher than legal" and "For every vehicle hit deer you see there are at least 7-8 you don't" (heard this with my own ears) and I can go in and on. ODFW has become nothing more than a pro-environmental, anti-hunting organization, much like the USFS but while they constantly tout their wildlife and fishing projects we see less and less on our end.but I wonder where all of those license, application, and tag fees actually go.
Yeah it has gone up but as I point out in my article it's still cheaper to hunt than a lot of other adult activities like golf.
Many of us are getting fed up with increasing tag and license prices and decreasing access and area. I didn't even buy a hunting license last year!
I see very few rule changes from year to year. So maybe I'm missing something? Can you give me some examples?
For me it is the ever increasing costs and decreasing chances of getting a tag. For hunters like me who want to put meat in the freezer, I put a hundred bucks in before I ever find out if I get a tag, and a hundred or so more in if I get one (every 3 years or so for a buck, and every 6 years or so for a bull), and that's all before I ever step into the woods. For a couple hundred bucks I can guarantee beef in my freezer, so with my limited income, I do that. What is the point of living in rural Oregon if you can't even get a tag to hunt in your own area? If I was a millionaire landowner with a few thousand acres I would be happy to get my LOP tags every year, but as a serf I have to play the lotto, which in the end makes venison cost about the same as lobster.