What did a deer licence cost when you first started hunting?

I was in the NWT in 76 & 77 (long time after I started hunting). NWT big game licence was $10. and all tags were free. Asked me what I wanted. Took Black Bear, Grizzly, Moose, Woodland Caribou, & Dahl Sheep. Those were the good old days!
 
Oh, geez... I barely remember what I had for breakfast...

The other day, I did come across a box in my garage with a whole passel of old punched deer tags and Ontario Successful Hunter crests... dating back 35+ years ago.
 
daddylonglegs said:
I was in the NWT in 76 & 77 (long time after I started hunting). NWT big game licence was $10. and all tags were free. Asked me what I wanted. Took Black Bear, Grizzly, Moose, Woodland Caribou, & Dahl Sheep. Those were the good old days!
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What he said. I got my first NWT licence in 1972 when I was 12, which you could do with a parents approval. I think you had to be 14 to get a licence without approval. A big game licence was $10.00 and you got tags for EVERYTHING.
 
saskbooknut said:
BC deer tag was 50 cents in 1963, IIRC a bear tag was free, they were just trying to get an estimate of harvest.
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Deer tag was 50 cents in 1959 too, moose/elk was $2.00...at the time you could not shoot both, but one tag worked for either animal.
As mentioned, Bear were issued free.

Dave.
 
I think it was $5 for my first Ab. tag, you could shoot your choice of either 1 male or female deer (mule or w/t) ,moose, or elk subject to open season restrictions in the area you were hunting...no draw restrictions on species, male or female or area...you hunted where you wanted.
 
Mine was about the same as now because was only a few years ago! I wish that they could come out with an all in one license!
Keep the regular ones for people who like to fish and what not, but have the option of say $100 a year and that includes bear tag, deer tag, varmint, fishing, and includes you into the moose draw! if your draw is successful, includes the tag! I say that for NB, why not have that option now especially since we have the outdoor card could be easier!
 
daddylonglegs said:
I was in the NWT in 76 & 77 (long time after I started hunting). NWT big game licence was $10. and all tags were free. Asked me what I wanted. Took Black Bear, Grizzly, Moose, Woodland Caribou, & Dahl Sheep. Those were the good old days!
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I started hunting in the NWT too though it was in the 90s. License was $10 and tags for everything but Bison, were $5 each. Now they've doubled to $10, $100 for a bison.
 
Mid '60's Ontario ... IIRC, a Small Game Licence was $2.00, Township specific Pheasant & Fox License $5.00 and a Deer/Bear or Deer?Moose License was $ 10.00.
No tax. The "Deer License" part where I hunted near Burks Falls was for the first two full weeks of November. Buck, doe or fawn (if it was brown, it went down, so they used to say !) the "Moose" License part of the combined License was for the same two week period in this area, but there was only an open season every other year. As I recall, there was no elk/wapiti season, as the only herd of these animals was in an area where there was an "experimental re-introduction" of elk in a remote area south of Sudbury called Burwash.

I too recall buying H-4831 surplus powder fr $1.00 a pound, bring your own container. C.I.L. Trap & Skeet Target Loads at a local Gun Club were $ 2.50 a box, but you could find
"case lots" (20 boxes, not 10 box "flats" which showed u c. 1988/1989) for $ 40.00. At some big shoots, they could even be had at that price into the 70's. A new Winchester 101 field gun was just under $ 300.00 and a Remington 870 Wingmaster was less than $ 200.00. Gas was 31 cents a gallon and fuel oil was 12 cents a gallon. Take out coffee at the restaurant was 10 cents ... in paper cups.
 
Back in the early 70's, a BC Resident hunting license was $5, deer tags were $1 each, moose, elk & caribou tags were $5 each and blackbear tags cost $0.50cents each. IIRC sheep, grizzly and mtn goat tags were a whopping $7 each.
 
Cant remember what a deer tag cost in the mid 90s when I started hunting but my Father has a unfilled deer tag from 1917 and back then it was $1.
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If memory serves my first deer licence was 10 bucks and that gave you a bear tag as well. And you could shoot any deer you liked. Moose was under 20 bucks, again it came with a bear tag and you could shoot any moose you seen. In those days bear were considered vermin and they just gave you a tag. Small game licence was 3 bucks and a migratory bird tag was 2 bucks at the post office. I have a plastic that used to hang in the gun fault at my other home and at the end of every hunting season I put all my licences in that bag, there is 30 yrs. of memories stored in that bag. Plus I had saved all my licences and tags from before that back to 1967, which are also now in the bag. I still have that bag, but it still packed away from the move. When I get stuff all unpacked I 'll have to try and post some of them
 
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