How Much Does a Guided Duck Hunt Cost in Tennessee?

What $450 and $16,000 actually buy

The $450 hunt is J&S Migrators' early-season teal package: one hunter, one day, done. The $16,000 hunt is G2G Hunting's four-day Platinum package, priced for up to eight hunters splitting one bill across four days in a blind — divide it by eight and it runs $500 a head a day, cheaper per person than several of the packages sitting in the middle of this list. A median built from both isn't "what one hunter pays." It's the midpoint of two different purchases, and reading it as a single number is how a $3,900 median turns into a surprise on either end. Read every price on this page for what it's a price of before you compare it to another. (An earlier version of this page leaned on a $250-a-day rate as if it were a full hunt price; it wasn't one, and it's excluded from the total above the same way a per-night lodging rate would be excluded from a trip cost.)

What the price covers

Across the 35 packages that list any inclusions at all, meals come with 94% of them, lodging with 89%, and a guide with 80%. Dogs and transportation each show up on about one package in four; decoys and meat or bird processing each show up on about one in five. A $3,900 median with meals, lodging, and a guide is a different hunt than a $3,900 median with none of the three — check the inclusions on the card below before you assume the price covers what you think it does.

When you can hunt, and the fee on top

Tennessee's 2026–27 duck season runs three windows: an early teal and wood duck season September 12–16, then the main season November 28–29 and December 5 through January 31. The daily bag limit is 6 ducks, with species sub-limits inside it — up to 4 mallards (no more than 2 hens), 3 wood ducks, 2 canvasbacks, 2 redheads, 2 black ducks, 3 pintails, and 1 mottled duck, plus separate limits on scaup, coot, and mergansers (TWRA). A nonresident 7-day small-game/waterfowl license runs $61, and the federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp — required of every waterfowl hunter, resident or not — adds $30.50. On top of the median hunt price, that's about $4,000 before a plane ticket, a hotel night, or a tip.

If you wanted goose, that's a different page

Nineteen packages across 9 Tennessee outfitters are sold specifically as goose hunts, not duck — a real, separate subject with its own page rather than folded into this count. A handful of the 37 duck packages above also bag geese on the same blind sit; those stay counted here because a real duck hunt that also puts geese in range is still a duck hunt, not the reverse.