How much is too much for nonresident license?

[lakevet]

Read in star/trib article that way back in 1899 the cost of a Minnesota resident big game license was 25 cents and nonresident was 25 DOLLARS!

Nonresident was 100 times more expense than resident.

That would mean non resident would be at $2600 for a deer license in 2010.

I wonder what the logic was back then for setting license prices.

lakevet

[TooTallTom]

Maybe that the people hunting close to home actually needed to hunt, those (very few who could afford to travel for recreation and were) coming from out of state could afford the high price anyway.

Now maybe there's more travel in the middle class and a desire to encourage people to come here to hunt.

That's a really interesting find/ statistic.

[fishinfey8]

Well I am moving to SD here at the beginning of May... SO, I check to see how much a nonres bear license is: $200 (compared to 38 for resident)! Deer hunting nonres:$140 bow or rifle ($26 for resident)! Good thing SD has great hunting, although I will miss bear hunting in the next couple years.

[mrklean]

ha what is iowa now $700 for a nonres?

[Fowlmouth]

I like the idea of a nonresident paying what a MN resident would pay for a license if we went to their state.

[candiru]

Maybe that the people hunting close to home actually needed to hunt, those (very few who could afford to travel for recreation and were) coming from out of state could afford the high price anyway.

Now maybe there's more travel in the middle class and a desire to encourage people to come here to hunt.

That's a really interesting find/ statistic.

Look into getting lifetime license before you leave. They don't have them for bear.

[Capt'nMorgan]

If I go to SD or ND hunting its always been $110-$140 for a non-res. licsence. It should be no less than that for them to come here.

[Gopher_Guy]

I like the idea of a nonresident paying what a MN resident would pay for a license if we went to their state.

They had that for a few years but scrapped it.

I received an Iowa tag in 2009. It was like $550.

In Montana now it is $912 for a NR deer/elk tag. I believe before the changes last year it was around $500. Meanwhile my friend who lives there to get a tag for:

Deer

Bear

Antelope

Elk

Birds

and some other stuff it's like $80 for everything.

[lichen fox]

And in 1899 that license entitled you to 5 Deer, one Moose & one Caribou! I'm not sure what the dates were for Moose and Cairbou, but you could hunt "Deer" the entire month of November...a few years before that the season was from Sept. through Jan.!

[HNTNBUX]

I usually buy multiple tags for SD at 200-250 a tag. I thought I would never apply for an Iowa tag because of their price, but I met a landowner at a class this spring that offered me two farms to hunt. I am waiting for May 1 to apply. In my case it changes based on what else I might hunt in the year. For this fall I have or will apply for, three SD tags, an additional reservation deer tag, one Iowa deer tag, one CO bull elk tag, three WI turkey tags and MN:moose, bear, deer, ducks and turkeys and I have an invite for Saskatchawan waterfowl.

[Gopher_Guy]

Here's the problem now with Iowa. It's really like $650 for a tag, maybe $700. You're going to need to apply at least once, really at least twice, sometimes even 3 times to draw a tag. They are charging $50 for a point now. Until 2009 it was only $10.

[walleye365]

agree 100% nonresident should pay what we would in there state. If we had that should of kept it that way.