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Hunting Expenses
#7603461
09/10/19 10:18 PM
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Brother Phil
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The biggest expense for most hunters, is a lease fee. However, there are some smaller ones, that help all of us out. First, which license to buy? I always get the super combo, because it supports the TPWD, and I am sure all of my bases are covered. I also get a duck stamp, even though some years I may not duck hunt. This revenue supports the National Wildlife Refuge System, which does offer hunting/fishing opportunities. On another hunting note, I purchase a annual State Parks Pass. There are many State Parks that offer fishing, and some that allow hunting, on a limited, drawn hunt basis. I am just sharing what I do, what you do, with your money, is your choice.
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Re: Hunting Expenses
[Re: Brother Phil]
#7603471
09/10/19 10:31 PM
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Creekrunner
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A wise man told me to always spend as much on my wife as I do on hunting. That way, I'll always be able to go hunting when I want. He was right, but that adds up real quick.
...and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Gen. 1:28
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Re: Hunting Expenses
[Re: Brother Phil]
#7603474
09/10/19 10:36 PM
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oldrancher
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She must be a well kept woman.
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Re: Hunting Expenses
[Re: Creekrunner]
#7603477
09/10/19 10:40 PM
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scalebuster
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A wise man told me to always spend as much on my wife as I do on hunting. That way, I'll always be able to go hunting when I want. He was right, but that adds up real quick. If you spend as much on hunting as you do on a woman you must have one hell of a place to hunt. I thought it was expensive chasing women every night. I caught a permanent one 13 years ago and the bank account never has been the same.
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Re: Hunting Expenses
[Re: Brother Phil]
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09/10/19 10:56 PM
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oldrancher
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Just messing with you Creekrunner. I know how much you like to hunt. I get the super combo each year and haven't killed a deer in 20+ years. Now I just teach the grand kids the joy of hunting and fishing and to be a good sportsman and do everything legal. I I just buy one in case I do kill a deer or happen to go fishing and to support the TPWD. I'm friends with the Game Wardens and the last thing I want to do is give them an excuse to write me up. Our last one would have given his grandmother a ticket because he told me he would. I believed him.
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Re: Hunting Expenses
[Re: oldrancher]
#7603577
09/10/19 11:53 PM
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scalebuster
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Just messing with you Creekrunner. I know how much you like to hunt. I get the super combo each year and haven't killed a deer in 20+ years. Now I just teach the grand kids the joy of hunting and fishing and to be a good sportsman and do everything legal. I I just buy one in case I do kill a deer or happen to go fishing and to support the TPWD. I'm friends with the Game Wardens and the last thing I want to do is give them an excuse to write me up. Our last one would have given his grandmother a ticket because he told me he would. I believed him. I don’t think I could be friends with a man that would write his grandmother a ticket.
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Re: Hunting Expenses
[Re: Brother Phil]
#7603641
09/11/19 12:32 AM
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68rustbucket
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My bird dogs feed and upkeep cost more than my lease fee. Next is travel expenses, it’s along drive to quality quail country.
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Re: Hunting Expenses
[Re: Brother Phil]
#7603691
09/11/19 01:25 AM
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TLew
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Lease fee pails in comparison to variable, recurring costs and don't get me started on all the upfront and once every 5 or so year costs. I won't actually post numbers in case my wife is looking
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Re: Hunting Expenses
[Re: Brother Phil]
#7603768
09/11/19 02:41 AM
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txtrophy85
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I don’t even keep track anymore, and when I did I kept track very poorly.
It’s my only hobby I have left, my one real passion ( I liked to fish, kayak, surf, wakeboard but I never loved it ) and I feel pretty much every dollar spent is justified.
That said, I have always been pretty conservative in my hunting but will start letting go of a few more dollars on out of state hunts in better country and to more exotic locals and far away places.
To be fair, the wife and family aren’t neglected or doing without to make my trips happen so there isn’t guilt, which makes it easier.
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: Hunting Expenses
[Re: Brother Phil]
#7603780
09/11/19 03:01 AM
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My license is a disabled veteran cost is zero, we own the place we hunt, 75 miles to the gate. Box of shells for my 270 and a couple of boxes of shotgun shells. Maybe a few bags of corn, and if I shoot a processors fee. That about covers it.
Combat Infantryman, the ultimate hunter where the prey shoots back. _____________"Illegitimus non carborundum est"_______________
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Re: Hunting Expenses
[Re: Brother Phil]
#7603818
09/11/19 04:29 AM
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Txduckman
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Hunting after the lease expense is cheap if you just have a lease and everything setup. A license costs as much as going out to eat with the family. I don't plan to shoot a buck (ok a 150+ yes) this year so maybe spend a few hundred bucks on 2x doe processing. Corn $150. I can't add in gas and food as I might use the same if staying home and eating out, poker, doing errands etc.
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Re: Hunting Expenses
[Re: Brother Phil]
#7603978
09/11/19 01:27 PM
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Always ready 2 hunt
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I'm like txtrophy85, pretty much my only real hobby and I no longer keep track of expenses but just try to enjoy and of course keep wife happy along the way.
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Re: Hunting Expenses
[Re: Brother Phil]
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09/11/19 01:32 PM
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Mr. T.
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If I kept track of all the expenses and toys I use while hunting, I could not even justify the cost to myself......so I don't.
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Re: Hunting Expenses
[Re: Brother Phil]
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09/11/19 02:05 PM
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PMK
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I'm somewhat like txtrophy85 except my wife also has hobbies that take on expense and time ... water skiing ... so that also requires my time during the late spring, summer and into fall. Thankfully she doesn't like cooler/cold water and besides lease costs ... corn, travel, license, electricity to name a few ... I don't count food as I would be eating whether hunting or not.
Last edited by PMK; 09/11/19 02:07 PM.
"everyone that lives dies but not everyone who dies lived..."
~PMK~
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Re: Hunting Expenses
[Re: Brother Phil]
#7604041
09/11/19 02:07 PM
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stxranchman
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I just thought about my taxidermy expenses I have every year......
Are idiots multiplying faster than normal people?
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Re: Hunting Expenses
[Re: stxranchman]
#7604052
09/11/19 02:14 PM
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txtrophy85
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I just thought about my taxidermy expenses I have every year...... Taxidermy doesent fall under the hunting budget, its under the decoration & home improvement category
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: Hunting Expenses
[Re: Brother Phil]
#7604055
09/11/19 02:16 PM
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PMK
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thankfully, that has never been one of my vices ...
"everyone that lives dies but not everyone who dies lived..."
~PMK~
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Re: Hunting Expenses
[Re: txtrophy85]
#7604074
09/11/19 02:28 PM
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I just thought about my taxidermy expenses I have every year...... Taxidermy doesent fall under the hunting budget, its under the decoration & home improvement category i may have to use this argument from now on.
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Re: Hunting Expenses
[Re: ZK-315]
#7604575
09/11/19 10:55 PM
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Joined: Jul 2015
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Always ready 2 hunt
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I just thought about my taxidermy expenses I have every year...... Taxidermy doesent fall under the hunting budget, its under the decoration & home improvement category i may have to use this argument from now on. I tried that argument recently when bear rug showed up from my Sept '17 hunt and pedestal bear mount from May '18 both with skulls. She did let me put them both in my study and actually the tanned rear hide from pedestal mount she place at base of bed. Otherwise, I have not spend coin on taxidermy, just DYI euros.
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Re: Hunting Expenses
[Re: Always ready 2 hunt]
#7604595
09/11/19 11:15 PM
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txtrophy85
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I just thought about my taxidermy expenses I have every year...... Taxidermy doesent fall under the hunting budget, its under the decoration & home improvement category i may have to use this argument from now on. I tried that argument recently when bear rug showed up from my Sept '17 hunt and pedestal bear mount from May '18 both with skulls. She did let me put them both in my study and actually the tanned rear hide from pedestal mount she place at base of bed. Otherwise, I have not spend coin on taxidermy, just DYI euros. so is it your study or your wifes?
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: Hunting Expenses
[Re: txtrophy85]
#7604611
09/11/19 11:31 PM
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Creekrunner
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so is it your study or your wifes? Walking where angels fear to tread...
...and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Gen. 1:28
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Re: Hunting Expenses
[Re: Brother Phil]
#7604627
09/11/19 11:54 PM
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Pitchfork Predator
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No, I have other things I keep track of but not my fun......it takes the fun out of it.
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Re: Hunting Expenses
[Re: txtrophy85]
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09/12/19 06:28 AM
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Txduckman
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I just thought about my taxidermy expenses I have every year...... Taxidermy doesent fall under the hunting budget, its under the decoration & home improvement category Definitely cheaper than from a Sante Fe art gallery!
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Re: Hunting Expenses
[Re: Brother Phil]
#7604924
09/12/19 11:38 AM
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Gringocazador
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I do not track what I spend for fear my wife would find out!!!
If she only knew.
Thanks, Billy
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Re: Hunting Expenses
[Re: Brother Phil]
#7605040
09/12/19 01:45 PM
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Jimbo
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I've always justified my hunting and fishing hobby as therapy, and an escape to get my head straight after a week long work grind. That is priceless!
Thursday at 12:45 PM #33 Once i learned that i didn't "NEED" to kill something, and that if i did kill something all the fun stopped and work began, i was a much better hunter.
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