Thread: $11.50 for a block

Originally Posted by Beast

Really, you would hunt less because it costs you $11.50? or 34.50 if you got one out of 3 months you applied for? If you applied every month that's 146.50 including postage for a year. Say you get 3 maybe 4 months based on whats said, if you make the most of your your time that's sweet F/A additional cost per trip. I'd bet recent increases in fuel costs would be a bigger burden than that. Doing shit costs money, that's life. Is it really worth saying one would put morals aside and not be selective on whats shot based on a few dollars?

Beast its $11.5 PER application, whether you get a block or not. Even if you ring up for one...
Currently I personally "apply" for between 10 and 15 blocks a year. My missus who also hunts would put in between 5 and 10 per year so that is a significant cost to our house hold.
To put it in perspective a family trout licence is ~$150/ year which allows me to catch trout almost anywhere in NZ. A Game Bird licence is ~$70 for the season for a managed population anywhere in the country.
My main issue is that Hunters are paying the full cost for this system and I don’t think DoC have the mandate to do that. They don’t do it for trampers who use tracks? Do you pay an entrance fee when going into a National park to pay for its administration? Do hut fees cover the entire cost of building and being maintained?
DoC do have a mandate to foster recreation and in an RHA, which the Blue mountains is, part of that would be helping pay for the ballot system which has strong support from users (hunters) because it promotes safe use of the resource.