The roll out of the 2021 non-res fees couldn't have been worse timing. The break down for a NR:
$185 non-refundable license.
$2,626.75 tag fee fronted.
$45.75 non-refundable application fee.
Processing fee is 3% of the total transaction at check out + $3.50. Processing fee unavoidable, phone or online doesn't matter.
$319.98 total non-refundable for minuscule odds. Before credit card interest if you go that route.
I don't apply for MSG, so please correct me if I'm off somewhere.
Assuming you don't draw and want to hunt OTC archery elk. Tack on the new $81.75 archery permit and the $651.75 elk tag. $1,053.48.
Even at $1,053.48 there is certainly still value, no doubt. Especially with the quality of our archery elk hunting and rifle deer. In comparison with MT at over a grand and WY pushing $1300+ with their processing fee. In WY & MT you can't go every year, here you can.
Now the value in Idaho has always been the no point system and the fall back of good general hunts. I'm as much of a homer as anyone on the boards. But as we start to see general opportunity slowly slipping away (pick your weapon, pick your zone, new 5 day waiting period for capped zones, Sawtooth/Diamond Creek becoming controlled, etc), it certainly becomes less appealing. The legislature has got to realize that the economy over the past 5 years is not the norm, median or mean, but the outlier.
$185 non-refundable license.
$2,626.75 tag fee fronted.
$45.75 non-refundable application fee.
Processing fee is 3% of the total transaction at check out + $3.50. Processing fee unavoidable, phone or online doesn't matter.
$319.98 total non-refundable for minuscule odds. Before credit card interest if you go that route.
I don't apply for MSG, so please correct me if I'm off somewhere.
Assuming you don't draw and want to hunt OTC archery elk. Tack on the new $81.75 archery permit and the $651.75 elk tag. $1,053.48.
Even at $1,053.48 there is certainly still value, no doubt. Especially with the quality of our archery elk hunting and rifle deer. In comparison with MT at over a grand and WY pushing $1300+ with their processing fee. In WY & MT you can't go every year, here you can.
Now the value in Idaho has always been the no point system and the fall back of good general hunts. I'm as much of a homer as anyone on the boards. But as we start to see general opportunity slowly slipping away (pick your weapon, pick your zone, new 5 day waiting period for capped zones, Sawtooth/Diamond Creek becoming controlled, etc), it certainly becomes less appealing. The legislature has got to realize that the economy over the past 5 years is not the norm, median or mean, but the outlier.