What exotic big game hunts can you book in Tennessee for under $1,500?

What's actually under $1,500

Six outfitters have inventory in this band, not the one or two a single rate card shows. Every price below is a per-animal or per-person figure from that outfitter's own current listing.

That's every exotic deer, sheep, goat and buffalo-family hunt in Tennessee's corpus priced at $1,500 or under, today. One name from this list is worth flagging by its absence: Goodman Ranch, the state's best-known exotic-hunting brand, has nothing here. Its cheapest package runs $1,995. If you're shopping by name recognition, that's the outfitter that will blow the budget.

Two counts, and why they don't match

If you check this page's own summary line against the table above, the numbers won't match — that's not a mistake, it's two honest ways of counting the same market. Most of this band prices per animal, not per hunt: you're paying for the ram, the goat or the doe itself, and the day-to-day cost of the trip (lodging, guiding, food) is baked into that single number. Only two packages here price as a flat day-hunt total — Caryonah Hunting Lodge's Corsican Ram and Texas Dall day hunts, both $1,200 per person — which is why a strict "price per hunt" count comes back at 2 packages from 1 outfitter. The real shopping list is the 15 packages above, from 6 outfitters. Both numbers are true; they're just answering different questions about what you're buying.

What the entry-level packages include

Guide and lodging come with 13 of these 15 packages (87%). Meals are included on 10 (67%). Past that it drops fast: transportation on 8, meat processing and a no-kill-no-pay policy on 7 each, license and tags on 6. Rifle or archery range access and taxidermy service each show up on only 3 of the 15 — worth asking about directly if either matters to you, since the odds are against it being included at this price point.

No license, no season

None of these are state-regulated hunts. They're high-fence preserve operations, and Tennessee doesn't require a hunting license or set a season for privately raised exotic game on private land. Confirm that directly with whichever outfitter you book — but the corpus carries no license requirement and no season window for this category, and neither does any Tennessee agency page.