Most expensive license

[Zach.Hannigan]

Mississippi is about to get more expensive for non residents. They have a bill on the dockett right now for a turkey stamp. For residents it'll be 10 bucks I believe, amd for non residents it'll be 100 bucks on top of your 7 day liscense, turkey permit, and wma permit. Put you right around 350 I believe for non res.

The Turkey Stamp is now official. For non residents, it will replace the existing Turkey Permit ($50) so effectively raising the cost to hunt by $50 over what it currently is.

So $400 for annual big game + turkey stamp. Or $250 for a 7 day + turkey stamp. Transaction fee of another $7 on top of that. 

Add another $30 for WMA User Permit.


My Alabama license cost me like ~$410 this year for annual big game and WMA.

I'm in mississippi at a trailhead as I type. Getting my season kicked off tomorrow. I didn't know that they were doing away with the turkey permit for non residents. That 100 buck turkey stamp is high but an extra 50 bucks isn't the worst thing. That's manageable for alot of people. Now if they decide to do away with the 7 day liscense like florida did then that'll hurt for people that come here every year to hunt.

That's the non resident peice you paid for bama? If thats a residents pricing that's outrageous.

[deerhunt1988]

Mississippi is about to get more expensive for non residents. They have a bill on the dockett right now for a turkey stamp. For residents it'll be 10 bucks I believe, amd for non residents it'll be 100 bucks on top of your 7 day liscense, turkey permit, and wma permit. Put you right around 350 I believe for non res.

The Turkey Stamp is now official. For non residents, it will replace the existing Turkey Permit ($50) so effectively raising the cost to hunt by $50 over what it currently is.

So $400 for annual big game + turkey stamp. Or $250 for a 7 day + turkey stamp. Transaction fee of another $7 on top of that. 

Add another $30 for WMA User Permit.


My Alabama license cost me like ~$410 this year for annual big game and WMA.

I'm in mississippi at a trailhead as I type. Getting my season kicked off tomorrow. I didn't know that they were doing away with the turkey permit for non residents. That 100 buck turkey stamp is high but an extra 50 bucks isn't the worst thing. That's manageable for alot of people. Now if they decide to do away with the 7 day liscense like florida did then that'll hurt for people that come here every year to hunt.

That's the non resident peice you paid for bama? If thats a residents pricing that's outrageous.

Yes, non resident Bama price. It's slowly went up about $100 over the past 7 years. I think it's tied to inflation or something?

[WV Flopper]

Slow increases over seven years to amount to 100$.

It's testing the waters to see how much people will pay.

[sasquatch1]

Nobody that really enjoys hunting is being priced out.

The average cry baby over a hunting license throws money away like it's water on things that do nothing but harm their health. Cigarettes, dip, booze, weed, you name it.

Then the whole new vehicle every 3 years people are the other half.

The people that will actually be priced out are BY FAR the minority. We as a society just like to cry.

MS, turkey season for at least a month to 6 weeks, for $500? I'll take it for what I love.

That's 100 a week essentially. There's outfitters booked up solid for 8-1200 for one bird. Give me a break

Seems we'd rather be pushed out through lack of game and or land to hunt. THEN WHAT?

Huntable habitat is not growing? Only shrinking while the people trying to hunt the resource is increasing. Once things don't have value, they disappear even faster. Think lions in Africa. They'd likely about be extinct if not for the value they hold. Otherwise they'd be just a nuisance and exterminated


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[10th Legionaire]

Not to be a jerk but permit costs pale in comparison to other vacation expenses. I've never been but a buddies wife is addicted to Disney World vacations and the money they shell out for the two trips they take a year is staggering.

Last year I got strong armed in to going to an all inclusive resort in Mexico and the others in the group thought the $2,000.00+ for the week was a deal.

I have three out of state hunts planned this year and tags will cost right around $600.00. To me that's a bargain for three weeks hunting.

[Gooserbat]

I don't like it but I pay and move forward.  Some times even an expensive tag/license is not the most expensive part of the trip. Logistics, lodging, meals, and  gas even when done cheap all add up.

[sasquatch1]

People today would likely better adjust to double the current prices as long as it was an affordable monthly subscription model


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[arkrem870]

20+ years ago when I started traveling I scraped together every penny to hit the road. Sleeping in tarps and cheap tents and eating bologna sandwiches. Times have changed and now I'm in a different place. But I still remember what it was like being young and broke.

[Sir-diealot]

Isn't this one of the reasons we left England?

[cgarner1]

I don't do a whole
Lot of traveling so I don't know what the answer to the original question is but with all these pricing continuing to rise, it would be nice to see more land being bought for public access or at least being conserved. I don't mind paying more if it means more places I could potentially hunt, but all we get around here are apartments, megasites, and everything else imaginable to permanently destroy habitat