What's the best hog and wild boar hunting outfitter in Tennessee?

How the ranking works

The order above isn't stars sorted high to low. It's a trust score: each outfitter's star rating, weighted by how many hunters actually left one. That's why Triple C Ranch, also a perfect 5.0 but on just 3 reviews, sits last instead of first, and why Spartan's 1,944 reviews outweigh a smaller operation's cleaner-looking average. Across all seven outfitters, the reviews add up to 2,309, averaging 4.92.

Best isn't cheapest

Spartan's cheapest package runs $2,900, for one hunter taking two boars, before the state hunting license. Add the license and that trip runs $3,114 to $3,205 before travel or a tip. That's the top of this list on trust, not the bottom on price: the 21 packages here run $150–$5,900, with a $1,495 median among the nine priced in a directly comparable rate, and most of that range sits well under what Spartan charges. If price is what you're booking on, the cheapest hog and wild boar outfitter in Tennessee is a separate answer, and a different outfitter.

Hunt any month — there's no season on wild hogs

Tennessee sets no season and no bag limit on wild hogs. TWRA manages them as a destructive species, not game, and landowners without an exemption may "shoot wild hogs without limit, year-round, during daylight hours, with any weapon and ammunition legal for taking big and small game". That daylight rule covers unpermitted land. The outfitters here run under their own hunting-preserve permits, and at least one, Standing Rock Hunting Lodge, books hunts after dark. Either way, every outfitter on this page can be booked in any month, which is also why this page carries no season table.

A nonresident still needs Tennessee's standard hunting license to hunt on any of these properties: $214 for seven days, or $305 for the year, at this year's TWRA fee schedule. None of these outfitters' licenses are hog-specific. It's the same big-game license you'd need for deer or turkey here, so it's one cost across a multi-species trip.

What's actually included

Lodging shows up on 9 of every 10 packages here that list what's included at all; a guide, on 8 of 10. Meals run about two-thirds, meat processing a bit over half. Fewer than a third throw in transportation, and dogs and a license-and-tags package each show up on about a quarter. Read the inclusions on the specific package, not just the outfitter's name: Spartan's own $2,900 opener is a two-boar package for one hunter, not a per-person day rate, and Bridgecreek's cheapest listed price is a three-species combo hunt (hog, ram and goat), not its plain boar hunt.

Full licence costs, the legal weapons for each method, and where to hunt deer, turkey or buffalo in Tennessee instead are below.