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Originally Posted by Roughneck Country
If you cant afford an increase in the current cost of licencing in AB what the hell are you doing hunting in the first place???? Its way cheaper to buy beef at the store than hunt unless your shooting it out in the back yard. Venison is the most expensive meat I eat, by the time gas, time off work etc... is taken into account I could have bought way more at the store.
The suggestion to increase in licencing and draw cost isn't people trying to be elitist its simply another tool to get the desired results out of the draw system. Like mentioned above if you cant afford a $25 or $35 application cost you should really think about whether you can afford to hunt period.
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I don't seeing 25-35$ deterring too many from putting in the draw . How high would you have to put it to actually deter applicants? 100? 1000? This is where the elitest arguement comes from. If the extra money goes into general coffers the government will pi$$ it away without doing anything for game management or conservation. There are things that can be approved on with the current system , the biggest being sure the Win card situation gets rectafied. Which brings up another question how does IBM get paid. If it gets a cut per applicant I can see a big problem there.