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Beef is cheap for me, and hunting isn't. I still hunt even though the costs of it seems to go up every year. This year all I put in the freezer was one small pronghorn doe, even though I had another buck pronghorn, buck mule deer, and either sex elk tag. Spent probably close to 1K on tags, fees, fuel, food, and camping this year to do all my hunts, and only cost me $365 to put 300 lbs of beef in my freezer. $400 in feed to get my steer big enough to eat, $330 to process split the cost down the middle with my parents.
Even my little old pronghorn wasn't really that cheap. $30 for the tag, $70 to fill my truck up for about 35-40 pounds of meat processed. That makes it around $3 a pound. If I add the cost of ice, food, wapping paper, and my time to process it that drives the cost up even more. However I hunt because it is what I love to do, not because it is cheap.
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