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October 18, 2012, 12:28 PM | #26 |
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"plus the land tax on my property."
Uhm... why? The deer are going to be there whether you own the property or not.
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October 18, 2012, 12:57 PM | #27 | |
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It is sort of like the cost of the hunting lease. The deer will be there whether you lease the property or not, but it is part of your expenses to hunt there.
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October 18, 2012, 01:07 PM | #28 |
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As with almost any hobby - the math is not your friend
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October 18, 2012, 01:44 PM | #29 |
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Ok I took it to mean that he owned the property to live there.
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October 18, 2012, 02:19 PM | #30 |
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I butcher it my self. I would have this land even if I did not hunt so that is not an issue. I would also have the gun and the ammo.
So basically I am paying for the licence and tag and a few spices. I typically turn most of the deer into Jerky. That is the only way the kids will eat it. I smoke it with apple wood from my back yard There is also the cost of Propane to run the smoker and then my time processing the meat.
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October 18, 2012, 03:11 PM | #31 |
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Don't even want to think about it. Going to get a beer and try to forget this.
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October 18, 2012, 04:02 PM | #32 | |
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BTW. The land is not my residence of record. It is 100% wild with no structures or fencing on it. i.e. just a nice 1/2 mile X 1/2 mile square place for peace and quiet this family appreciates having. _ |
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October 18, 2012, 04:11 PM | #33 |
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If I am lucky enough to be lying peacefully on my death bed surrounded by my loving family and friends my thoughts will surely be on the things I did, not the amount of money I have made or spent. I don't remember the cost of my many big game hunts, or the steelhead fishing or snowshoeing a trapline or piloting a Pacific City dory from Depoe Bay Oregon up the coast to the Columbia River and across the bar into Astoria....Or the beautiful women in my life or the feeling of riding a big street bike over thousands of miles of highway or playing a guitar for thousands of people in the audience...
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October 18, 2012, 04:52 PM | #35 |
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Last year I spent a bit over $300 on gas and maybe $50 processing supplies (freezer paper, saran wrap, tape........ bought some new plastic tubs, too) $60-70 on permits, 14 bucks for beef tallow .... butchered 7 deer,, 4 turkeys, a pheasant and a couple of quail in 10 days, ...... 4 of the deer were small (Sunday Orphan Patrol), while 3 were mature bucks (one was huge)..... the small ones yielded probably 40 pounds of meat, the others on the order of twice that. Approx 120 lbs of deer and a turkey went home with my brother..... leaving me with a freezer of venisonand turkey for about $450...... about $2/lb. Considering the local butcher shop charged me $1.40/lb for beef tallow, not bad.
This year I can't swing the gas, so I'll be hunting local ..... I don't imagine we'll be as successful..... |
October 18, 2012, 05:29 PM | #36 |
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I'll quote my father one this one
"Never add up the price of your passions. No matter what the cost, you always come out ahead."
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October 18, 2012, 10:28 PM | #37 | |
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Seams like once we the people give what, at the time, seams like a reasonable inch and "they" take the unreasonable mile we can only get that mile back one inch at a time. No spelun and grammar is not my specialty. So please don't hurt my sensitive little feelings by teasing me about it. |
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October 18, 2012, 11:03 PM | #38 | |
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As for cost... I figured this year's Elk cost me about $2.37/lb, including the cost of an unfilled cow tag. (that's cheaper than the lowest grade ground beef, around here) But... there were also 4 hunters that came back empty-handed, and 1 non-hunter, with their own costs. And, if it had been a Deer, the cost per pound would have quadrupled, just for starters. -For Deer, the families (yes, multiple ) would have come along. Plus there's much less meat.
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October 19, 2012, 08:34 AM | #39 |
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"The property (160 acres) was bought for hunting purposes to begin with."
See, you didn't mention that in your OP, so I assumed that you were living on the property.
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But finding a deer rifle and load that 11 year old girls can manage well is ....tricky. |
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October 19, 2012, 09:23 AM | #41 |
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Heh. No matter the per-pound cost, deer and elk are cheep, cheep, cheep compared to those dove-birds.
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1/2 of 640 is 320. I grew up in open farm county..... a field or pasture was "a section", "a 1/2", "a quarter", "an 80", or "that little strip/scrap"..... a "quarter" is 160 acres, or 1/4 of a section, which is a square mile, 640 acres. |
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October 19, 2012, 10:24 AM | #45 |
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It is to the point that I can't justify the cost without the meat.
Luckily most of the big time meat hunting (read moose) is a shared endeaver, everybody that participates gets a equal part of the meat, this year we got 2 outta 6 alotted animals in our team during the actual hunting week, a calf and a bull, and 15 people are to share it, as we have 4 more allowed, most people would probably not turn up for the weekend hunts so there will be more to share, (we are 18 people in the team) The shooter gets the heart/tongue and a choice cut of his/her choosing My lease allows me to hunt solo for deer, hogs and other animals but we do have some shared/organized hunts for those aswell where we share the meat. |
October 19, 2012, 10:36 AM | #46 |
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640 is one square mile 1/2 mile x 1/2 mile is 1/4 of a square mile=160 acres. His math is correct.
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Seams like once we the people give what, at the time, seams like a reasonable inch and "they" take the unreasonable mile we can only get that mile back one inch at a time. No spelun and grammar is not my specialty. So please don't hurt my sensitive little feelings by teasing me about it. |
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Seams like once we the people give what, at the time, seams like a reasonable inch and "they" take the unreasonable mile we can only get that mile back one inch at a time. No spelun and grammar is not my specialty. So please don't hurt my sensitive little feelings by teasing me about it. |
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October 19, 2012, 11:28 AM | #49 |
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English is not mine, apparently-
1/2x1/2 is indeed "a quarter" ..... 160 acres. I apoligize. |
October 19, 2012, 04:25 PM | #50 |
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If you look at it as a hobby, and do your own cutting, I think you are way ahead. Take 2 pounds of 90% lean beef burger and cook it up. Drain the juice into a can and let sit overnight. Do the same with 2 pounds (Or 3 pounds) of deer burger with no added fat meat. Look in the two cans the next day. Where you gonna buy meat that lean at any price?
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