How much did you spend this year preparing for the season?

[Core]

I just realized today, as I walked into field and stream, that it was the first time I'd been there in months! In fact, other than $6 for a new set of field dress gloves and $22 for two new pairs of gloves from Walmart (because i couldn't find my others--which of course showed up recently, so now I have duplicated pairs), I have not spent any more money. Nothing on arrows, do not plan on spending anything on bullets, etc.

[Dom]

License fees+gas for scouting aprox 200.What are field dress gloves? I have never used any gloves for field dressing just get out my knife and get to gutting not afraid of getting my hands bloody

[Pygmy]

Don't need any ammo, firearms, or clothes....

However I spent several hundred dollars on fuel, tractor parts , seed and fertilizer  for my food plots, not to mention a couple of thousand for property taxes and upkeep for the property... PLUS quite a few hours of my time, which could have been spent fishing or sitting at The Legion having a couple of frosties and flirting with the barmaid...

[Core]

11 minutes ago, Dom said:

License fees+gas for scouting aprox 200.What are field dress gloves? I have never used any gloves for field dressing just get out my knife and get to gutting not afraid of getting my hands bloody

They are long plastic gloves to minimize blood all over me  I pack them with my field dress shoes.

1 minute ago, Pygmy said:

Don't need any ammo, firearms, or clothes....

However I spent several hundred dollars on fuel, tractor parts , seed and fertilizer  for my food plots, not to mention a couple of thousand for property taxes and upkeep for the property... PLUS quite a few hours of my time, which could have been spent fishing or sitting at The Legion having a couple of frosties and flirting with the barmaid...

If things to well my next season will be the most expensive ever because I'll have picked up some property.

Edited October 27, 2018 by Core

[Dom]

1 minute ago, Core said:

They are long plastic gloves to minimize blood all over me  I pack them with my field dress shoes.

Other than the gloves please tell me you chang your shoese to gut a deer if so you are the first that I heard of.

[Core]

8 minutes ago, Dom said:

Other than the gloves please tell me you chang your shoese to gut a deer if so you are the first that I heard of.

I put on my [field] dress shoes

 

No, all I do is put the plastic on. Always seems to rip anyway but it does help.

[Dom]

10 minutes ago, Core said:

I put on my [field] dress shoes

 

No, all I do is put the plastic on. Always seems to rip anyway but it does help.

Funny thanks for the chuckle.You have got to give Biz back his shoes.

[DirtTime]

Tags, $47 ( not including Turkey tags, I buy them in early spring for the spring season as that's the only season I hunt turkeys anymore ), first trail cam $90 with shipping ( was supposed to be free ), batteries and cards for said trail cam, $100, gas, I can't even recall. Sawyers, about $100 to make sure I can keep the wifes and my clothes treated all season ( they run out of this stuff fast ).

 

Sooooo........

Appx $337 not including gas. 

 

[grampy]

Property taxes, tractor parts, and implements,  fuel, seed, 4 new hub blinds, 5 trail cams, crossbow broad heads, two boxes Federal Nosler BTs, tons of reloading stuff, a pair of lightweight bowhunting gloves, Under Armor pants, Eddie Bower camo mid weight shirt.....And I'm sure I forgot something. 

Thousands....... $$

But worth every penny. Even if I don't kill a deer.

[Robhuntandfish]

Every dude is in to something. We just happen to spend it on deer hunting.  Some guys are into cars , snowmachines, biking, antiques etc.  

[BowmanMike]

This year just the money for tags. Bought nothing else. Almost bought a bow,but didnt. Next year will be the bow,so my average will go up..I am kinda cheap though,minimalist sort of dude. 

I am not convinced a $699 used bow is going to get me more shots at deer,but i like archery.

In comparison,i am using a muzzleloader for gun and muzzle season that i bought of a friend for $100,scope included.

As far as stands go,i would like more,just like everybody,but i find it isn't easy to sit in the few i have enough times. Plus i sit on the ground and have a climber.

Edited October 28, 2018 by BowmanMike
thought of more...

[G-Man]

6 hours ago, Dom said:

License fees+gas for scouting aprox 200.What are field dress gloves? I have never used any gloves for field dressing just get out my knife and get to gutting not afraid of getting my hands bloody

i never use gloves for deer but use arm.legnth for bear.. would never do a bear with out them..way ro many parasites and dieseses

[doebuck1234]

Tags,camo gloves,battery's,broadheads and card reader.around $120.not counting gas $ and don't use field dressing gloves.usually me hands are wet and cold by time I'm done dragging so warms em up well n can always find a water hole to wash off in if need be

[G-Man]

spent ? well $$ wise 17k for property i owned all around, licence. and the most costly..... many many many man hours scouting and hanging stands

[Pygmy]

I have developed serious infections twice from dressing game without without gloves, once from cleaning squirrels and once from butchering a caribou....The  one from the caribou would have ended my last Alaska hunting trip prematurely if one of my partners had not brought a  bottle cipro just in case...Since then  I carry a Ziploc full of  cheap latex gloves in my vest or my pack, and use them every time I   dress, skin or butcher anything....

[GreeneHunter]

Two cans of Premethrin !

[Rattler]

This year I bought a new pair of compact 8x Styrka binocs for about $200 I think.  Didn't need them, just wanted them.  Otherwise I have everything I need for the season already.  My lifetime license comes with my tags and I bought it so long ago, even my DMP's are free.  I've gotten to the point in life I'm thinking about selling some of the hunting stuff I have that never gets used anymore.  I have a closet full of hunting clothes I've accumulated over the years that I don't even wear.  I think I have about 6 pairs of hunting boots to use now as well.  Now that I'm thinking about it, I have a ton of hunting stuff I rarely ever use.  Some of which I used very little after I bought it.  Most was bought thinking someday I might need it.  Then there's all the fishing stuff too.  Do other long time hunters accumulate so much stuff over the years or is it just me?

[Steve D]

22 minutes ago, Rattler said:

Do other long time hunters accumulate so much stuff over the years or is it just me?

I am in the same boat. Want to open a used hunting stuff store??? We might be able to give Dick's and Field & Stream a run for their money.

[Rattler]

Good idea!  We can call it "Good Will Hunting Store".  LOL!

[Jeremy K]

1 hour ago, Pygmy said:

I have developed serious infections twice from dressing game without without gloves, once from cleaning squirrels and once from butchering a caribou....The  one from the caribou would have ended my last Alaska hunting trip prematurely if one of my partners had not brought a  bottle cipro just in case...Since then  I carry a Ziploc full of  cheap latex gloves in my vest or my pack, and use them every time I   dress, skin or butcher anything....

I always have open wounds on my hands from work  ,no way am i introducing foreign blood in to my system . 

[UpStateRedNeck]

Gotta be over 4 grand.  2 crossbows, new pants, pack, property taxes, and a forestor to mark 3000 or so trees on my hillside property.  Oh and another ladder stand.

[stubborn1VT]

Tags, broadheads, a replacement hub blind.  Not too bad.  

[moog5050]

I refuse to add it up.   But I have fun with it.   Primary hobby now so I don’t sweat it.  Heck at one point in my life, I probably spent thousands a year on partying and that was sure less productive.  

[Bionic]

Close to $2k roughly, like Moog said, their are a lot worse of hobbies to sink coin into.

Dad, and I hunt together,  so its priceless. 

[Nomad]

I’m always suspicious when these threads pop up , that my wife joined the forum ....

 

to to answer the question, first have to decide which category this falls in .

Edited October 28, 2018 by Stay at home Nomad