How Much Does a Buffalo (Bison) Hunt Cost in Tennessee?

Cow costs less than bull, every time it's split

Standing Rock Hunting Lodge prices a Buffalo Cow Hunt at $3,000 and a Buffalo Bull Hunt at $4,000 — one outfitter, one animal, $1,000 apart. Wilderness Hunting Lodge splits the same way: $3,250 for a cow, $4,450 for a bull. Bridgecreek Farms LLC: $3,500 cow, $4,500 bull ("starting at," its own listing's wording). Every outfitter here that prices a cow and a bull separately prices the bull higher, by $500 to $1,000. The $4,225 median sits almost exactly between Standing Rock's and Wilderness's own bull prices — the two numbers an AI answer already names for this question, without ever saying what they bracket.

The two without a price on file

Caryonah Hunting Lodge lists a "Buffalo" package with no price attached — call the lodge. Clarkrange Hunting Lodge doesn't sell a standalone buffalo hunt at all; its one bison-tagged listing is an "Exotic Big Game Hunt" bundled with elk, axis deer and red deer, priced as one package with no line item for the buffalo alone. Neither is folded into the $4,225 median — a hunt with no number attached isn't a data point, it's a phone call.

Goodman Ranch owns both ends of the top

The most expensive buffalo hunt in the state, a $5,995 Bison Bull Hunt, and the second-priciest, a $4,995 Bison Cow Meat Hunt, both belong to Goodman Ranch — a flat "starting price," not a per-animal rate, and both above the $4,623.75 mark that splits the top quarter of this list from the rest. One hunt in eight (that $5,995 bull) clears the 90th percentile ($5,295); nothing on this list runs into five figures.

What the price covers, and what it doesn't

Lodging comes with all ten listed hunts. Meals with nine of ten, a guide with eight of ten. Meat processing shows up on half the listings, taxidermy on four in ten. License and tags are folded into the sticker price on three of ten — the rest don't mention it, so ask before you book.

No state license needed — but check which animal you're booking

Tennessee's buffalo hunts are pen-reared preserve hunts, and preserve hunts are exempt from the standard state hunting license under Tenn. Code Ann. § 70-4-413 — the $4,225 median above isn't hiding a licensing fee the way most other Tennessee game does. One thing worth checking before you call: two of these six outfitters, Bridgecreek Farms LLC and Wilderness Hunting Lodge, also sell a separate Water Buffalo hunt — a different animal, priced and booked on its own. Confirm you're on the "Buffalo" or "Bison" line, not the water buffalo one, before you put down a deposit.