#10MinuteTalk - Utah Nonresident License and Big-Game Tag Price Increases Shock Hunters

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🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Want to hunt big game in UT? License and tag price increases may have you thinking twice. Huntin’ Fool’s Austin Atkinson joins Mark Boardman to talk through the 2025 changes, how UT distributes tags, and what your application strategy should look like moving forward.

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0:00.0	What is up, everybody? Welcome back to the Vortex Nation podcast. I tell you what, tag prices,
0:08.7	hunting license prices, fishing license prices. They increase periodically over time. We've seen it before.
0:15.6	This is the year 2025. We're seeing these things in a variety of states. My original home state of Washington, the home state I live in of Wisconsin right now, we're seeing these things in a variety of states my original home state of
0:21.5	Washington the home state I live in of Wisconsin right now we're going to see some
0:25.0	license increases in regards to how much they're gonna hit your pocketbook but I
0:30.8	tell you what none have garnered the attention the buzz the I don know, just like the mental backlash as what the state of
0:41.8	Utah has been talking about this year. Frankly, it had me reeling. I'm pretty point invested in that
0:49.4	state. I know a lot of folks are talking about what's going on, what's going to happen, maybe what has
0:56.5	happened in regards to tag price increases there to help us break it down and tell us what we
1:03.1	know as of right now.
1:04.9	We have Mr. Austin Atkinson from Hunting Full.
1:09.0	Austin, welcome to the podcast.
1:10.7	You guys specialize in big game
1:12.8	tags you're based out of Utah you are you're my boots on the ground you were reporting
1:17.6	from the field Austin what's going on with with Utah big game and licenses in general
1:25.4	thanks mark I mean if you've ever wanted the spotlight all you got to do is something like this and your
1:30.7	state will get the spotlight.
1:32.0	It has been wild here in Utah because like you say, people are invested and most of us
1:39.6	have a finite number of resources.
1:41.9	We can't apply and hunt everywhere we want. So we have to pick and
1:45.7	choose which applications we go for. And Utah has really kind of thrown the book at us.
1:51.5	Yeah, it's wild. When I heard this, I was like, wow. Like, you know, sometimes you'll see like a state,
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