Utah fees increase: keep applying?

[44hunter45]

The only good thing to come out of Utah.

 

[Kiwi]

The typical crying by the typical people.

Its always funny too, because those crying the most, have applied the least.

I'm on year 27 in Utah, drawn nothing yet.

Utah was always on my long term plan, like @brymoore has done with Utah, so that's largely on me.

A lot of people don't even realize that in many states 15-20 years ago you needed to front the tag fees in almost every State. You needed to apply by paper application. Between my wife and I we would have 15-20k splashing around in the various states draws every year.

What has driven this apply everywhere mentality is how easy it is, and largely how cheap it is. A credit card a few hours of time you can apply in every western state.

I have no sympathy for the crying, apply or dont, it's a privilege and a luxury to hunt out of state.

Lots of affordable hunts still to be had even for NR hunters.

There is no way to make it affordable to everyone and IMO, if a person waits until they retire then they really didn't want to do it that bad from the get-go.

I've been a bit "lucky" drawing tags and have done hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of quality hunts very affordably, pennies on the dollar.

I'll keep applying and of all the money I spend in a given year on everything else, my licenses and applications do the most benefit to wildlife, habitat, hunting, and fishing. I don't need a tag to feel good about supporting same. Obviously others expect a bigger ROI, I don't.

That's the push I needed. Application underway.

 

[Buffs35]

The days of applying to a dozen states are slowly coming to a halt for a lot of us. Quickly.

I’m down to 3. Used to be 7.