Hevi-Shot

[skeet]

Fabs...You are an accountant and an attorney. Luckily you probably have places to hunt that cost you nothing but the average guy doesn't. A fairly cheap lease on a place is in the neighborhood of 4000 bucks now days. Dig a pit?? 8-900 bucks....and a day off work. A lot of guys hunt from boats. Boats are expensive to run and maintain. I have done that for years. We were each buying a dozen decoys each every year. Using decoys hard really is hard on them and on the water you are going to lose a few every year. Gas traveling at 2.50 a gallon gas for the boat at 2.50 a gallon times 4 miles to the gallon if you are lucky. BTW a fair to middling duck hunting rig will cost ya in the neighborhood of 15-20 grand. Figure it all out. You don't know how lucky you are to not have any output after the costs you outlined. I had no lease costs at all and waterfowling is a pretty expensive sport for me. Ammo is a small expence. During the late 70's and early 80's we did taxidermy mounts on 50 geese. Doing it ourselves still cost us 20 bucks a pop. And if it was raining you couldn't use them and we had to have a trailer to keep them in and transport with. And they still only lasted 6 or 7 years. We hunt hard. It's tough on every thing we use. Oh and I averaged over 300 geese a year for 25 years.. Lotta shooting. And even in lead days I used the expensive premium shells. They were expensive then.

[fabsroman]

Its all relative. To kill thousands of geese over ones lifetime, it does cost thousands of dollars.

Yes, I have never had to lease land, but I did look into joining a hunting club this year and at $1,800 a year it isn't something to sneeze at. If I can get some extra time this off season, I am going to do some knocking on doors to see if I can get permission on some additional farms.

I also know how much boats cost because I looked into buying one. Problem is that my dad isn't too comfortable hunting from a boat. Even thought about using it just to go into the marsh on the Eastern Shore and then hunting from the ground afterward, but my dad didn't seem too enthused about that either. Might have something to do with the fact that he cannot swim.

Regarding trucks, I know exactly how expensive they are. I bought a Ford F-350 Lariat crew cab three years ago and just finished paying it off. Mind you, I probably didn't need the Lariat edition, just like I might not have needed the SBE. Then again, I tend to buy the best and hold onto it for a very long time.

Yeah, hunting can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, if you want to spend that kind of money on it, and if so, ammo is a small part of the equation. However, to the average Joe that hunts a couple of times a year, ammo is a big portion of the expense.

Everything is relative.