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<blockquote data-quote="ATH" data-source="post: 1033167" data-attributes="member: 1656"><p>To the question of whether hunting is becoming elitist, I'd say yes, defining that as hunting only being accessible to people with a good deal of money. In my home state of MI I know a lot of people that live paycheck to paycheck but were always out deer hunting. With recent tag increases, many of them don't have the money to anymore. And non-resident tags, forget it. MT used to be fairly reasonable for elk and it took a draw to get a NR tag, then they jacked the price to about a grand and I haven't been back, last I checked they couldn't even sell them all anymore.</p><p></p><p>Not to mention changes with access. Where I grew up I used to hunt all over, just go ask farmers and I had hundreds of acres. Now it's all leased up, 100 acres for a guy to shoot 1 buck. Since they pay so much nobody shoots does and the population is out of control as a result. And with midwestern farmland being increasingly bought up by large corporate farms who don't want to be bothered with ANYONE hunting on their land...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ATH, post: 1033167, member: 1656"] To the question of whether hunting is becoming elitist, I'd say yes, defining that as hunting only being accessible to people with a good deal of money. In my home state of MI I know a lot of people that live paycheck to paycheck but were always out deer hunting. With recent tag increases, many of them don't have the money to anymore. And non-resident tags, forget it. MT used to be fairly reasonable for elk and it took a draw to get a NR tag, then they jacked the price to about a grand and I haven't been back, last I checked they couldn't even sell them all anymore. Not to mention changes with access. Where I grew up I used to hunt all over, just go ask farmers and I had hundreds of acres. Now it's all leased up, 100 acres for a guy to shoot 1 buck. Since they pay so much nobody shoots does and the population is out of control as a result. And with midwestern farmland being increasingly bought up by large corporate farms who don't want to be bothered with ANYONE hunting on their land... [/QUOTE]
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