Alaska doubling all nonresident license and tags for 2017

[Born2late]

Wonder your thoughts on this. Specifically with all the airfare, air taxi dealing with shipping, weather delays. How many guys will opt to go to another state. Or does it matter?
I like to hunt deer on kodiak and you can shoot 3 bucks  150.00 per tag This year next year 300.00 per tag. Plus 85.00 license increase.
 At what point do you guys decide to try elsewhere?

[Boss .300 winmag]

Wow that's crazy. 

[yum tag soup]

Monopoly

[Skillet]

Do some of us feel entitled to hunt cheaply on other states? I don't. If an Alaskan resident wanted to hunt Washington they too would suffer from sticker shock over the nonres fees, and still have to pay the same transportation costs to fly themselves and their trophies back and forth. Considering the relatively historically low oil prices that are wracking AK's economy right now (thank the North Dakota Bakken fields and the Alberta oil sands in part for that) the fact that they need to increase non-res fees should be no surprise.  I'll be buying an AK non-res hunting license and moose locking tag next year, and for me to be able to do it when I want to do it (and more than once in a lifetime) the $970 it will cost me seems like a relatively small price to pay.  Especially considering a non-res moose tag in WA is $1652, IF they are lucky enough to get drawn.
 

[Ridgeratt]

Do some of us feel entitled to hunt cheaply on other states? I don't. If an Alaskan resident wanted to hunt Washington they too would suffer from sticker shock over the nonres fees, and still have to pay the same transportation costs to fly themselves and their trophies back and forth. Considering the relatively historically low oil prices that are wracking AK's economy right now (thank the North Dakota Bakken fields and the Alberta oil sands in part for that) the fact that they need to increase non-res fees should be no surprise.  I'll be buying an AK non-res hunting license and moose locking tag next year, and for me to be able to do it when I want to do it (and more than once in a lifetime) the $970 it will cost me seems like a relatively small price to pay.  Especially considering a non-res moose tag in WA is $1652, IF they are lucky enough to get drawn.
 

You keep speaking Blasphemy like that and these folks will be looking for a rope and a bucket!!

[Stein]

I sure don't see much "cheap" hunting out there for a nonresident.

I was priced out of MT and now drive through it to get to Wyoming.  If you look at the studies they do, the bottom line is that they can jack up the prices and people will still pay - so they do.

[Special T]

Ya that... & I'm not going to AK to hunt deer or elk... moose ram grizzly Mt goat wolves... yes

[DaveMonti]

Out of state hunting permits have just become another sin tax.  Jack up the prices and nobody will complain except the very small minority of out of state hunters (who, by the way, can't vote for that state's politicians).  Prices will continue to escalate, and hunters will still pay and bring out of state money to the state's economy.  Makes perfect sense to me, very logical. 

[Skillet]

You keep speaking Blasphemy like that and these folks will be looking for a rope and a bucket!!

Ha, you're probably right!

Ya that... & I'm not going to AK to hunt deer or elk... moose ram grizzly Mt goat wolves... yes

  Maybe add sheep to that list too... 

[Special T]

You keep speaking Blasphemy like that and these folks will be looking for a rope and a bucket!!

Ha, you're probably right!

Ya that... & I'm not going to AK to hunt deer or elk... moose ram grizzly Mt goat wolves... yes

  Maybe add sheep to that list too... 

That's what a Ram is Sucka! ;-)

[huntnnw]

and if you are paying the guide fees to hunt goat,ram and grizzly in AK its really not a whole lot in the end..required in AK to hunt those

[Mr Mykiss]

Pretty sure they're only "slightly increasing" other tags...not doubling them.

[Skillet]

You keep speaking Blasphemy like that and these folks will be looking for a rope and a bucket!!

Ha, you're probably right!

Ya that... & I'm not going to AK to hunt deer or elk... moose ram grizzly Mt goat wolves... yes

  Maybe add sheep to that list too... 

That's what a Ram is Sucka! ;-)

Haha, stupid small phone screen.  Roger!

[Skillet]

Pretty sure they're only "slightly increasing" other tags...not doubling them.

Doubling all Non-res big game tags except non-res military-
http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/home/pdfs/2016_2017_alaska_license_fees.pdf

[Bango skank]

If an Alaskan resident wanted to hunt Washington they too would suffer from sticker shock
 

They would also suffer from stupidity, cause theyd be WAY better off doing a non res hunt in idaho.