A well known deer hunter from my area, told me today that they are thinking of raising hunting licenses for nr deer hunter to 1000.00 dollars a pop. Im sure its just a rumor know. But if that really happened wow. Although people would probably still pay it. It would change my thought from maybe at 420.00 to not a chance at a thousand. Any thoughts??????????
i personally have a hard time spending any amount to hunt out of state what i have in my backyard just my .02
I agree 100%
I heard something on the news the other day about them raising the non-resident fee. They said theres a shortage of funds this year for thier operating expenses but the hike was only like $150 bucks or close to that. If they raise it, it won’t go from the present price to $1000. I looked on the DNR website and couldn’t find anything about what the non-resident fee was last year or would be this year, I think the present price is around $150 too $250. If they rose it to anywhere near that price it wouldn’t help them sell liscenses to raise revenues, $1000 is rediculous.
nr is 323.00 deer license
100. for licence and habitat fee
423.00 last year
Thanks Jorgy I wasen’t sure. I read those numbers a couple years ago but forgot, $1000 or any hike at all is rediculous. I know with the flooding here last year its been on the news that alot of parks and hunting areas took a big hit with damage. I know its to help with expenses with rebuilding them. I can see a small raise, maybe $50 to $75 at most if they absolutely had to because its already too expensive to come here and hunt.
mossy dan it kills me I have so much land in iowa to hunt and I can’t touch any of it. I have 2500 acres in mcgregor in the back hills. Couple hundred around parkersburg. The biggest farmer in franklin county I believe, my wifes friends father who said anytime. Also my wifes two cousins and family friends play in the nfl so they bought some farms in south central iowa and northern missouri and I can’t touch one due to the long wait and the high price it really sucks.!!!!!!
My wife and I used to live in MaGreggor and they had nice bucks walking through town and eating apples from trees in back yards there. It was nothing to see deer walking down streets in the middle of the night. Parkersburg and south central Iowa is all good for numbers and quality deer. It sure looks to me like its about time you move here because your missing out. Im getting close to retirement age, 58 in June and the wife and I are thinking about moving down around Ottumwa, between there and Missouri on the Des Moines river. Besides the deer and turkeys by the kazillions and dynamite catfishing on the Des Moines the whole area is full of hills and valleys and is very pretty. It is killer deer hunting in all those places you mentioned, is one better then the other? thier all good. Befor they started highpowered rifle hunting in southern Iowa there were herds of 250 and im not kidding, just ask the locals, thats one reason they started a highpowered season and its a very low population area.
Trust me my wife begs me every hour to move back she is from parkersburg. She works in heart surgery at mayo clinic in minnesota kinda hard to find that kind of job like that down there in that area.
Things haven’t changed much in mcgregor either. I’m from just across the ole muddy in PDC and can tell ya plenty of good bucks still roam the hills and back yards. That said, $580 to go across the creek to have a chance to kill a buck seems awful steep. I might see fewer big bucks in the WI bluffs of crawford county, but I don’t have to take out a loan for a tag either.
brad do you know miranda and joe from pdc there getting married here soon. Here step dad is one of the family that has that land.
Tell her to recheck because if shes working at the Mayo she could without a doubt land a good job in just about any hospital here. I heard they’re just about begging for rn’s on up and they make good money here, new home wages.
I own a construction company up here and all of my family is here. But that deer license makes it pretty tempting i have a place on mille lacs to so i would be farther than i already am. alot of stuff to consider but probably sometime
Governer Culver had a speech a week ago and said when Iowa gets thier part of the stimulas money thier going to be hiring 20,000 people here just to work on the roads and bridges. Heard about another speech from him today on the nightly news and the state of Iowa is going to sell many many millions of bonds to go along with the stimulas money for an extra punch, going to what place I don’t know but its for jobs. The economys around here are good and they have laid off a few but very few. I drove down the street the other day and seen a welders and machine operators sign up. Seen a sign today for operators and warehouse forklift drivers, hire immediately it said. Maybe its time to take another longer look, the economy here in town is good, everybody in the trades is working. I landed two flood homes in the last week that have to be done right away. Theres flood damage everywhere up and down the cedar river all the way from close to the minnesota border to where it enters the Iowa river and south of there too, they found peoples pets clear down in missouri that were from here. The economy here is pretty good when theres signs along the roads lookin for help and the stimulas money hasen’t even got here yet, besides the state bonds to be sold.
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A well known deer hunter from my area, told me today that they are thinking of raising hunting licenses for nr deer hunter to 1000.00 dollars a pop. Im sure its just a rumor know. But if that really happened wow. Although people would probably still pay it. It would change my thought from maybe at 420.00 to not a chance at a thousand. Any thoughts??????????
That would just plain suck. We’ve got a farm in Iowa that we manage for deer and pheasant. I’d me mighty upset if I had to pay that kind of money to take a deer off my own land.
I’m used to those prices. We are part of a deer camp in Montana and it’s only around 650.00 for a combo Elk/Deer tag.
I have said before, all MN needs to do is charge a reciprical fee for fishing in MN.
Lots of MN go to IA to hunt deer, and IA come to MN to fish. Should be a no brainer and I bet fees would balance out after the huge stink it raises. 
I am in the third year of trying to draw an Iowa bukc tag…I will not pay $1,000… 
I don’t blame ya Tom, $1000 is completely rediculous!
Got a last name? I’m not familiar with anyone getting hitched.
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mossy dan it kills me I have so much land in iowa to hunt and I can’t touch any of it. I have 2500 acres in mcgregor in the back hills. Couple hundred around parkersburg. The biggest farmer in franklin county I believe, my wifes friends father who said anytime. Also my wifes two cousins and family friends play in the nfl so they bought some farms in south central iowa and northern missouri and I can’t touch one due to the long wait and the high price it really sucks.!!!!!!
You should have no problem getting a tag for those Northern Missouri farms you have access to…..
And theres alot of nice deer on both sides of the Iowa/Missouri fence, Id hunt northern Missouri just like Id hunt Iowa, it wouldn’t make a diffrence to me which one because northen Missouri’s just as good.
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