Antelope Island Tag or $150K???

Antelope Island Tag or $150K???

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Which would you rather have? $150k cash, or an Antelope Island deer tag? We were talking about this a bit on Poker night. What you all think?

I know most of us love to hunt big bucks, but just how much is a monster muley worth?
 
I'd be very interested in knowing the net worth of any man who chooses a deer tag over 150k in cash. Not knocking it at all.... I just can't relate. I wonder the same about the auction tag winners... how much money do they have if they don't even blink an eye at a couple hundred grand for a hunting license?
 
Well I have $200k in student loans still but I'm making a decent living and paying on them, I can see the writing on the wall and mule deer tags are getting harder and harder to get and more expensive and so if it was given to me I'd probably choose the deer tag. At least that is how I feel right now. I should pay the loans off but I'm going to be too old to hunt when they are paid off.
 
For 150K, you could go on 10+ awesome guided mulie hunts or 20+ awesome landowner tag or trespass hunts or drop camp hunts. It is a no-brainer to take the money, just wish there was a requirement to spend the 150K on hunts :)

You should re-run the poll at 25K and see what the split is.
 
These guys aren’t millionaires they are Multis and most likely a write off and spend $150k at their poker nights.

But would take $$$

If I was them I’d be buying and giving that tag to some stud veteran!

Merry Christmas
 
Damn so here me out I choose the tag. I’d rather shoot a giant park deer than the 150,000. Lifetime tag I could get hit by a meteor tomorrow so chasing a tied up buck would be fine by me.
 
I'm paying off my house with the $150k you know how many hunts I could go on without a mortgage to worry about.

I am going to redo this poll in a new post and see what you all come up with then.
 
I'll bet for the guys who purchase that tag, it's not an either/or situation. They just want that particular hunt and the cost is virtually meaningless to them in their lifetime hunting "budget". Probably the equivalent of me buying a pack of gum. If those guys want to hunt mulies in Alberta or Sonora 20 times, for the same money, they can do that too. Doubtful they're making an economic comparison to carefully budget out hunt selections that maximize trophies taken per dollar spent.

But yeah for me I'd have to take the cash, since I do have to do that comparison. With that budget, I could take 8 or 10 bucks in AB and/or MX. several of which would probably rival the 2022 AI bucks.
 
That’s a conundrum, I’d take the cash, and then I’d get a big over sized bank check for 150k for the purposes of a good photo Op and then at Womens wine social event at the 2022 WHCE I’d selflessly donate to Don Peay and the boys at SFW…. Or If I wasn’t feeling like Teddy Roosevelt at the time, I’d go to the Jicarilla multiple times in the near future slay a few 200”+ ers and load up on some of Dulces finest Rez Shrooms and CBD products.
 
People don't spend 150k on deer tags. They write off a massive tax bill and get to shoot a huge deer because of it. All money donated to SFW etc is a tax deduction for those guys. The money will go to the IRS otherwise.
 
I'll take the $150K "deer money" and go on a couple sheep hunts while I'm still young (69) and able bodied. Save the rest and let my wife blow it on useless sh!t. like food and fuel, after I'm dead and gone.

If it was a choice between $5K and the island hunt, I'd take the hunt but have zero interest in paying more than that!!!!

Does that make me a non-monster muley guy? Maybe so.

Zeke
 
Cash is King. It is just a deer. I hunt for the whole experience. It seems like everyone has seen all of these deer and has names for them. Not for me.
 
sb2017 said:
I'd be very interested in knowing the net worth of any man who chooses a deer tag over 150k in cash. Not knocking it at all.... I just can't relate. I wonder the same about the auction tag winners... how much money do they have if they don't even blink an eye at a couple hundred grand for a hunting license?
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Oh, they blink…….. but that may be all.

They see it as a donation as you do when you buy Girl Scout cookies. You do expect the cookies……?
 
Cash money. A friend and I had a similar conversation the other day about the monetization of hunting. If it was legal to say draw a Henry's tag and sell it what would that look like and how much would the high bidder pay? And why is it legal for the state to sell the states wildlife through expo tags and governors tags but you as an individual citizen can't? As we are reminded of the Public Trust Doctrine. The wildlife are supposed to be preserved for public use not owned and sold by the state to the highest bidders.
 
You could buy my Antelope Island mule deer tag for a lot less than $150K. Wish you could test me on that.
FairweatherHTR said:
Cash money. A friend and I had a similar conversation the other day about the monetization of hunting. If it was legal to say draw a Henry's tag and sell it what would that look like and how much would the high bidder pay? And why is it legal for the state to sell the states wildlife through expo tags and governors tags but you as an individual citizen can't? As we are reminded of the Public Trust Doctrine. The wildlife are supposed to be preserved for public use not owned and sold by the state to the highest bidders.
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The “theory” is: because most of those dollars go back into big game conservations, the dollars you would get for selling the tag would not typically do that.

Now you may not believe in the theory, like the theory or give a chit about the theory but it is still the premise by which it’s done, to you or for you, depending on you.
 
Surely (I hope) those explaining away the purchase of auction tags as a "tax write-off" understand that doesn't mean the hunt is free for the buyer. They have an opportunity, if they choose to take it, to get a modest discount on the price paid, in the form of a bit less federal income tax paid when they file their taxes the next year. That's it. On the bottom line, they'll still be forking over most of the winning bid price plus BP. And then will likely also engage the services of a paid outfitter.
 
sticksender said:
Surely (I hope) those explaining away the purchase of auction tags as a "tax write-off" understand that doesn't mean the hunt is free for the buyer. They have an opportunity, if they choose to take it, to get a modest discount on the price paid, in the form of a bit less federal income tax paid when they file their taxes the next year. That's it. On the bottom line, they'll still be forking over most of the winning bid price plus BP. And then will likely also engage the services of a paid outfitter.
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That's why the question is $150k rather than $300k that it typically sells for. $150k or so is what a buyer would be out of pocket for. Approximately
 
Founder said:
That's why the question is $150k rather than $300k that it typically sells for. $150k or so is what a buyer would be out of pocket for. Approximately
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Ya……. If you gave me $150K for the tag I’d owe the IRS another $50K (I’m in a lower bracket than y’all.)
 
Don’t let the IRS know you mentered some kid a Henry’s deer tag……….. just say’n
 
Take the cash. Would love the tag, but that could fund a pretty good amount of animals for the daughters to hunt with maybe something nice left for dad.
 
i think some may look at this and the other thread and say "i thought you guys were muley freaks, you wouldn't want to hunt antelope island for a super monster muley?!" but our answers are showing that we like to HUNT. we want to take a monster buck on his own ground, where he can get away... fair chase. AI seems like a canned hunt, judging from past success. i've never been there, sure it may be huge but do they fear those tag holders?

it doesn't take money to hunt big bucks - it takes dedication, persistence, knowledge of muley behavior, etc. Stuff that you learn and value because YOU LEARNED it. Also figure most of us can use that free cash for a whole lot more important things than blowing on a single deer hunt.
 
DBLung said:
People don't spend 150k on deer tags. They write off a massive tax bill and get to shoot a huge deer because of it. All money donated to SFW etc is a tax deduction for those guys. The money will go to the IRS otherwise.
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Wrong
 
Even if it was $5000, I would take the $$ over an antelope Island tag.
I would get more satisfaction shooting a mature buck that only scores 170" on an easy to get tag than shooting a 250" on Antelope Island. I think it is great they offer tags for Antelope Island now but the hunting there gets me as excited as hunting "high fenced" deer.
 
Cash.

There has never been a deer killed on that island or anywhere that I would rather kill on that style of hunt than the few nice bucks I've gotten on actual hunts.
 
Film burning the tag.... Then post it here so I could bathe in the wanna be entitled tame deer mount society's tears.
 
2lumpy said:
You could buy my Antelope Island mule deer tag for a lot less than $150K. Wish you could test me on that.

The “theory” is: because most of those dollars go back into big game conservations, the dollars you would get for selling the tag would not typically do that.

Now you may not believe in the theory, like the theory or give a chit about the theory but it is still the premise by which it’s done, to you or for you, depending on you.
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I think that is it as long as we label something under the banner "conservation" we can do whatever we please.
 
BrianID said:
Even if it was $5000, I would take the $$ over an antelope Island tag.
I would get more satisfaction shooting a mature buck that only scores 170" on an easy to get tag than shooting a 250" on Antelope Island. I think it is great they offer tags for Antelope Island now but the hunting there gets me as excited as hunting "high fenced" deer.
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It would be great to have that tag and kill the biggest buck out there, just to piss off the outfitter’s ??
 
Bluecollarbucks said:
It would be great to have that tag and kill the biggest buck out there, just to piss off the outfitter’s ??
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What would be even better would be to sign an agreement with mossy green backs that no matter what buck you shot, his logo had to go on pics and videos had to be posted…..Then wait for a spike to line up with the buck they picked for you and shoot it instead?
 
I'd take the $150k. Invest it in a multi-family rental and hunt mule deer off the net income for the rest of my life.

If I was super rich like the people purchasing the tags, I would rather hunt the Jicarilla, Pauns, Henries, or Colorado 4th season. They probably do that anyways...lol
 

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