What Is the Most Expensive Guided Quail Hunt in Tennessee?

What $6,500 actually buys

That price is a party rate, not a per-hunter one, and the party size runs one to four. Book it alone and you pay the full $6,500; fill all four slots and it comes out to $1,625 a head — still more than every other quail package in the state on a per-person basis, not just in total.

The same outfitter's Option 1, without the overnight stay, runs $6,000. Those are the two highest prices on any quail package sold in Tennessee, both from one plantation, both real and bookable today.

How far outside the range that actually sits

Fifty-two quail packages are live from 19 Tennessee outfitters, and 35 of those price in a way that compares — no day rates, no bundled add-ons, just the hunt. The middle of those 35 runs $675, with three-quarters of them priced under $900 and nine in ten under $1,340. Only four of the 35 clear that $1,340 line at all.

Bendabout's $6,500 sits roughly five times past it — this isn't a "top-tier" price next door to the others, it's an outlier by a wide margin. At the other end, $60 buys a self-guided grounds fee at Payne Quail Farm: no guide, no dog, you walk released birds on your own. The distance between those two numbers is most of what "quail hunting" means in this state.

What the ceiling buys that most packages don't

Across the packages that list what's included, a dog comes with 84% of them and a guide with 75% — those are close to standard. An overnight stay is the outlier: under one in five packages include lodging at all. Bendabout's $6,500 hunt does. The price isn't just buying a longer day in the field; it's buying the one inclusion almost nobody else offers.

The highest-rated outfitters aren't the same list

The outfitters ranked below answer a different question than this page's headline: not who charges the most, but who's most credible to book with, weighted by review volume and rating rather than raw stars. Baggenstoss Farms leads at 4.9 stars over 102 reviews, followed by Pine Ridge Farm, Windy Hill Farm & Preserve, Sawbriar Hunting, R and D Adventures, and Craig Game Preserve.

Bendabout Farms isn't one of the six cards — not because anything's wrong with it, but because 16 reviews doesn't out-rank outfitters with ten times that track record. Both rankings are honest; they're just not the same ranking. Across the 17 outfitters in this cell with any reviews on file, the total runs to 533, averaging 4.85 — a market-wide number no single outfitter's own page can produce, Bendabout's included.

Twenty-two of the 52 quail packages here are also sold as combo hunts with pheasant. If that's the hunt you're actually after, Tennessee has 40 dedicated pheasant packages from 18 outfitters, priced on their own page instead. And nearly everything priced above comes from preserve operations running their own season, not the wild bobwhite season TWRA sets (November 7, 2026 through February 28, 2027) — most preserve hunting here is license-exempt, so check which one you're booking before you assume you need a tag.