Idaho NR prices go up

[Pro953]

2021 will be 12 years since the last major fee increase, really glad to read this.

Actually, this is a really great point. Some states have an annual increase built in. Often folks will absorb the 3% increase every year without blinking an eye. But like any business when you hold down prices for an extended period of time, when you decide to take a price increase it can be pretty substantial and you lose customers that shop for a lower price even if it’s not apples to apples. See it all the time in wholesale markets. Maintaining a price point to over ten years is pretty crazy.


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[Broomd]

Its not a big vacation hunt. It's an every year family tradition to hunt back at home with my family that the state is making into a rich man's only game. Sadly Idaho is just following other states lead in going for the money and not the doing what's best for keeping this sport alive.

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Thank goodness Idaho has finally woken up! This has nothing to do with "keeping the sport alive," it isn't dying. ...elk hunting is desirable and Idaho has an obligation to price our state-owned resource competitively.
Don't like? Don't participate, sorry but that's the bottom line.

 

[Goodtimekiller]

Actually, this is a really great point. Some states have an annual increase built in. Often folks will absorb the 3% increase every year without blinking an eye. But like any business when you hold down prices for an extended period of time, when you decide to take a price increase it can be pretty substantial and you lose customers that shop for a lower price even if it’s not apples to apples. See it all the time in wholesale markets. Maintaining a price point to over ten years is pretty crazy.


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I agree, but if your product is not increasing in value, like idaho elk and deer hunting, it makes it really hard to increase prices. Now they bump it way up.


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[Broomd]

... but if your product is not increasing in value...


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Au contraire, friend. Our resource was vastly undervalued to start with! Pro953 is spot on, hunters have gotten used to bargain prices in our fine state. TIme to pay real value.

 

[threethirtyeight]

Au contraire, friend. Our resource was vastly undervalued to start with! Pro953 is spot on, hunters have gotten used to bargain prices in our fine state. TIme to pay real value.

Then maybe you should avacate for the resident fees to increase because they are such a deal and you can pay your extra fair share our game.

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[mfllood3800]

I hope every Western State follows suit. The demand for tags gas been a premium. If I was in charge of pricing, I would've jacked the price about 5 years ago. Folks will now decide if they hunt as a passion, or some cool new adventure to try out and self film, to be a youtube star.

 

[EastMT]

Well i dont dip or smoke or drink and I dont pay guides or landowner fees. I dont really care for wasting money i work hard for. To pay $1200 for lackluster, subpar, wolf infested elk hunting seems like a waste.

How much money do you donate to management? By the way, idaho management released wolves, remember that. Millions of dollars donated by nonresidents turned into wolf crap in no time. And now Colorado is gonna be releasing wolves. Great job western states, great job.


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Hunting wastes a lot more money than dipping and drinking. I’d say buy a half a beef, cheaper, no guide needed.

I hope all the west raises all the prices, maybe it will calm things down a bit. $1000 per tag per species for NR.


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[Rob5589]

Actually, this is a really great point. Some states have an annual increase built in. Often folks will absorb the 3% increase every year without blinking an eye. But like any business when you hold down prices for an extended period of time, when you decide to take a price increase it can be pretty substantial and you lose customers that shop for a lower price even if it’s not apples to apples. See it all the time in wholesale markets. Maintaining a price point to over ten years is pretty crazy.


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True. I'll pay an extra 377 next season; all at once it sounds steep. Had they spread it out over the past 12 years, ~31 per year, nobody would have hardly noticed.

 

[Goodtimekiller]

Thank goodness Idaho has finally woken up! This has nothing to do with "keeping the sport alive," it isn't dying. ...elk hunting is desirable and Idaho has an obligation to price our state-owned resource competitively.
Don't like? Don't participate, sorry but that's the bottom line.

If that’s the case it would only make sense to charge residents the same.

If all these residents are ok with the nonresident price (how surprising) would anyone mind paying for me? Nonresidents fund 90% of wildlife management while making up 10% of the hunters. Sounds a lot like socialism.


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[Goodtimekiller]

Au contraire, friend. Our resource was vastly undervalued to start with! Pro953 is spot on, hunters have gotten used to bargain prices in our fine state. TIme to pay real value.

Compared to other states your hunting is way below average


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[Sadler]

Compared to other states your hunting is way below average


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Then stop bitching about it and go somewhere else? Colorado, Montana, Oregon? Nobody is making you hunt Idaho. If the huntings that bad why are you paying the original $600 in the first place?

 

[brettdunn7]

People will spend $5 per day on dip/smokes, to slowly kilo themselves. Yet complain about a few hundred more on a big vacation hunt.

I just don’t get it. Yea paying more is never fun, but if it’s what you love you just make it happen. And if it in anyway contributes to more funding for management it’s a win.


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Didn’t it go up a few hundred more for this season. Now they raise it again. At what point is it enough?


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[CamoPirate]

I mean I got into elk consistently this year, and into multiple bigger bulls. But I also saw almost 0 deer, and 0 bucks. On the flip side, it's like $300 cheaper to hunt Montana, and get a combo elk and deer tag than it is to hunt Idaho, going equal distances. So yeah, while they may have been slightly overdue for the price increase, that $80 archery permit and $260ish tag increase might have been a bit excessive.

But it's too late. Pony up kiddos.

 

[Pwells10]

How I see it is elk hunting is a desire, people will still buy. The tags will still sell out. The demand for elk hunting is at an all time high. So the more demand and less opportunity, the higher the price. Just like houses in todays rediculous market. I do agree the prices are too high, but i dont disagree that they needed to be raised.

 

[brettdunn7]

I hope every Western State follows suit. The demand for tags gas been a premium. If I was in charge of pricing, I would've jacked the price about 5 years ago. Folks will now decide if they hunt as a passion, or some cool new adventure to try out and self film, to be a youtube star.

Hard to follow your passion when it’s overpriced and cost too much to do so.


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[Travis Hobbs]

I’ll bet tags still sell out. In fact a few units I’ll bet still sell out in hours this December.

 

[Goodtimekiller]

Then stop bitching about it and go somewhere else? Colorado, Montana, Oregon? Nobody is making you hunt Idaho. If the huntings that bad why are you paying the original $600 in the first place?

I havent in years, quit making assumptions.


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[Sadler]

I havent in years, quit making assumptions.


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So this doesn’t affect you and you’re just complaint for no reason.

 

[Goodtimekiller]

How I see it is elk hunting is a desire, people will still buy. The tags will still sell out. The demand for elk hunting is at an all time high. So the more demand and less opportunity, the higher the price. Just like houses in todays rediculous market. I do agree the prices are too high, but i dont disagree that they needed to be raised.

I agree, but when a real recession hits its gonna be bad, it’s a little like price gouging because they have the limited resource and are just trying to see how high they can go.


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