license cost increases. anyone wanna comment!!

[trkhunter]

 

[deerhunter10]

What did you expect? It would have shocked me if it didn't go up.

 

[trkhunter]

Why should it go up.. are the deer more expensive to control??

 

[knightrider]

 

[swampbadger]

Ugly as sin!!! Glad I bought my lifetime in 2015 when they were proposed to go up the next season. I paid $1620.00 to wash my hands of all of it and I'm proud of my investment.

Went ahead and got my kids hooked up before they turned 3 ($200 apiece then in 2018) so they're paid off too.

Crazy how the kids lifetime has practically doubled and even the 13-51 yo lifetime has increased $800 dollars over 9 years.

 

[TNGunsmoke]

If it went up 2% a year, no one would complain. Jump it 20% every 10 years, everyone complains. Everything else has gone up, everything TWRA has to pay out or buy has gone up, salaries have gone up, why shouldn't we expect fees to go up to help pay for it. I wish there was some way to get the bird watchers, WMA users that aren't hunters/fishermen/boaters, i.e the birdwatchers/horse back riders/atv riders/hikers....

 

[knightrider]

If it went up 2% a year, no one would complain. Jump it 20% every 10 years, everyone complains. Everything else has gone up, everything TWRA has to pay out or buy has gone up, salaries have gone up, why shouldn't we expect fees to go up to help pay for it. I wish there was some way to get the bird watchers, WMA users that aren't hunters/fishermen/boaters, i.e the birdwatchers/horse back riders/atv riders/hikers....

Dont go trying to make sense, your supposed to fall in with the bashing and crying like the local trolls!!!

 

[swampbadger]

If it went up 2% a year, no one would complain. Jump it 20% every 10 years, everyone complains. Everything else has gone up, everything TWRA has to pay out or buy has gone up, salaries have gone up, why shouldn't we expect fees to go up to help pay for it. I wish there was some way to get the bird watchers, WMA users that aren't hunters/fishermen/boaters, i.e the birdwatchers/horse back riders/atv riders/hikers....

My biggest gripe is atv riders, I think they should be required to pass a BAC test and have to pay fees to trail ride. I'm sure most are decent, but there's always several that add ruts and beer cans. and all of them scatter wildlife.

A few too many really nice wmas are now not so nice to deer hunt because of atv traffic.

 

[megalomaniac]

Looks like a bargain if you are a TN resident who hunts and fishes and hunts deer in all 3 seasons (bow, ml, and rifle). $84 bucks.

$126 if you add turkey.

Gonna be hell for my kids to hunt land they own... going up to over $500 for NR to hunt deer and turkey. That is gonna actually hurt.

 

[MickThompson]

My biggest gripe is atv riders, I think they should be required to pass a BAC test and have to pay fees to trail ride. I'm sure most are decent, but there's always several that add ruts and beer cans. and all of them scatter wildlife.

A few too many really nice wmas are now not so nice to deer hunt because of atv traffic.

They passed an alcohol ban this year so that should help

 

[TNGunsmoke]

They passed an alcohol ban this year so that should help

We all know how well prohibition worked out last time.....

 

[tntrkkllr]

I have a lifetime and bought my kids theirs before they turned 3, still think the cost going up even more is ridiculous

 

[cecil30-30]

They aren't charging enough for OHV permits IMO. I hunt my own property and my kids have their lifetime.

 

[DaveTN]

anyone wanna comment!!

The last one went six pages, so I'm guessing....Yes!

 

[rifle02]

I wish there was some way to get the bird watchers, WMA users that aren't hunters/fishermen/boaters, i.e the birdwatchers/horse back riders/atv riders/hikers...

It's been done in other states. I seem to recall in Georgia that there was some sort of outdoor recreation permit required to use the WMA. It applied to hikers, Trail bikers, horseback riders, rock climbers and anyone else. They had to pay something and it wasn't much to use the wma. It used to bug me that Hunters had to pay to use it for a couple weekends a year. Everyone else got a free ride all year long.

 

[TNGunsmoke]

It's been done in other states. I seem to recall in Georgia that there was some sort of outdoor recreation permit required to use the WMA. It applied to hikers, Trail bikers, horseback riders, rock climbers and anyone else. They had to pay something and it wasn't much to use the wma. It used to bug me that Hunters had to pay to use it for a couple weekends a year. Everyone else got a free ride all year long.

A lot of the WMA's and lakes have a day use fee if you don't have a license. Couple of bucks a day, but it adds up, and catches folks that are just stopping for a picnic as well.

 

[Ski]

Can't leave Walmart with what I can carry in one hand without dropping a hundred dollar bill, so yeah i think the price increase is plenty fair and expected.

 

[knightrider]

At 50 cents a day its a heck of a deal for what i get to do

 

[Snake]

Glad I bought my lifetime.

 

[sallee-bo]

Just bought my Permanent Senior Sportsman license, $49 plus $1. Expires 10-29-2224.

 

[Planking]

My rural community has more gun fire in the street at night than most of the inner city streets of Chicago. Last Friday night added another. Don't interrupt a road hunting piece of S**t while they are scanning or they will shoot.

 

[Rem7600]

I think I like the supplemental, I don't get sportsman anymore because I don't know if I'll be hunting the whole season in tn or part of it every year so not having to buy a bow, gun, ml or sportsman is nice that saves a little. And I'm not getting sportsman every year just in case

I think the wma price is ridiculous, I don't think it's too bad of increases overall. Of course I would like to be seeing better out of twra for having increases.... but they will do what they will do.

 

[ImThere]

My biggest gripe is atv riders, I think they should be required to pass a BAC test and have to pay fees to trail ride. I'm sure most are decent, but there's always several that add ruts and beer cans. and all of them scatter wildlife.

A few too many really nice wmas are now not so nice to deer hunt because of atv traffic.

And the kayaker's in every river, steam pond that they pay nothing to access

 

[REN]

it wouldnt be as bad if TN wasnt already one of the HIGHEST in the nation for resident hunters. Now it will be the highest and what are hunters getting for this price increase? are there going to be more lands and access, is it going to clean up areas that are not currently maintained better? will it create more opportunity for hunters? We all know the answer there. I know to many guys that work in the TWRA that tell me some of the crazy inefficiencies and wasteful spending and corruption from departments for $. These are not conspiracy stories or 2nd hand info, half of them have already left there for other employment it was so bad. So instead of fixing some of that they will just put it on the customer base to keep paying for it, that is where it goes all over me.

If you have a plan laid out as to how this increase will actually help hunters and wildlife Id be all for it but the TWRA doesnt really have a plan other then the current status quo. Now I understand they dont get tax money etc like other states but even still, $200 for a resident to hunt each year and at the same time lose land and access each year just blows my mind.

 

[trkhunter]

it wouldnt be as bad if TN wasnt already one of the HIGHEST in the nation for resident hunters. Now it will be the highest and what are hunters getting for this price increase? are there going to be more lands and access, is it going to clean up areas that are not currently maintained better? will it create more opportunity for hunters? We all know the answer there. I know to many guys that work in the TWRA that tell me some of the crazy inefficiencies and wasteful spending and corruption from departments for $. These are not conspiracy stories or 2nd hand info, half of them have already left there for other employment it was so bad. So instead of fixing some of that they will just put it on the customer base to keep paying for it, that is where it goes all over me.

If you have a plan laid out as to how this increase will actually help hunters and wildlife Id be all for it but the TWRA doesnt really have a plan other then the current status quo. Now I understand they dont get tax money etc like other states but even still, $200 for a resident to hunt each year and at the same time lose land and access each year just blows my mind.

this right here!! what do we get for the increase!!!i just know Wayne co lost a big wma because the money wasnt there!! correct me if im wrong!!!again what do we get for the increase! thats the bottom line!!

 

[AlabamaSwamper]

Be cheaper to pay the fines.

 

[trkhunter]

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if you have no reply gtfo!!

 

[trkhunter]

Be cheaper to pay the fines.

we landowners pay our fines yearly via property tax….

 

[FARMTOFIELD]

And they write permits to farmers who will absolutely ruin your property

 

[mcbuck58]

Looks like a bargain if you are a TN resident who hunts and fishes and hunts deer in all 3 seasons (bow, ml, and rifle). $84 bucks.

$126 if you add turkey.

Gonna be hell for my kids to hunt land they own... going up to over $500 for NR to hunt deer and turkey. That is gonna actually hurt.

Does TN have a nonresident landowner price/tag available? IL does have one available. Think you have to have at least 40 acres.