SPARTAN HUNTING LODGE PRICING

1. Our prices already include everything. When viewing other Lodges pricing, know that it is designed to ‘Get you in the Door’. Like the ‘Sticker Price’ on a Car, BEFORE the add-ons. The Price you see on their sights is just the beginning. Then they add on things like Field Dressing Fees, Skinning and Quartering Fees, Guide Fees, etc. and then State Tax added to that (which in Tennessee is 9.75%) and before you know it you are paying in the neighborhood of $300 more than was stated to you on their sights for something as simple as one Boar Hunt. More expensive hunts add even more. Our prices are as stated. The only possible add-ons here are two things that we do not do. One is Full Processing of Meat and the other is Taxidermy. Both of which are readily available here if desired. We have local people in the area for both. In both cases, we take it to them for you and get it back from them for you for free. Full Processing of Meat is all done with ‘Same Day Service’, and I call you personally with Taxidermy on the day it is completed.
2. The second thing you need to know when comparing our prices to other Lodges, is that once you read enough to realize what the actual prices are at other lodges, once all the add-ons and taxes have been applied, you need to know that that is only their “Starting Price” on what ever animal you are hunting. Most lodges fine print explains this away by using phrases like, “and up”, “+”, or “Prices are subject to change without notice”. That initial stated price, once it is completely tallied up, is for a young representative of whatever you are after. Boar, for example. That price is usually for a young, 200 pound, Boar or Sow, with no maturity, and definitely ‘No Teeth’. To actually kill something Mature with some Trophy Quality Teeth, you would have to “Speak to Someone Else”, then begin hearing whispers of words like “Presidential”. Then as those whispers begin, the whispers of the ‘Changes in Prices’ will begin shortly there after. Prices like $2500 start ringing out. And remember that is before their traditional add ons and taxes. Hunting with us, all Boars are the Same Price and it is Mature Trophies that we are primarily after. If you kill the biggest Boar on the entire property, he is still the quoted price, and nothing more.
3. All things need to be taken into consideration when comparing our prices to the prices of others. “Apples to Apples” if you will. Other lodges have a “No Kill No Pay” policy, as we do. But at their place, if you do not kill then you still pay around $300 for your meals and lodging. With us “No Kill No Pay” means if you do not see something you want to take, and you do not take it, then you pay ZERO. You pay absolutely Nothing, because we DO NOT charge for meals and lodging. That’s why, with us, a None Hunter pays Nothing to accompany you. Many lodges do not serve meals, others serve only two meals a day, while we serve you three FULL meals a day completely free. So when you look at our Prices, be sure you are looking at the ‘Full Picture’. If you choose another Lodge, keep our number. Once you have experienced what I have just described, you may want to give us a try.
4. Also, by our prices appearing ‘At a Glance’ to be higher than our competitors, it steers the Rif Raf and the Bargain Shoppers away. Which, in turn, make for a nicer trip for those of you who can, and have chosen, to read.

*When comparing prices to other lodges make sure they give you the “out the door price”. That is the price after the hidden fees and add-ons.

1. The way we view it, the only thing we charge for is what you kill. A Boar, for example, is $1,500. Your 3 meals a day, lodging, us skinning and quartering the animal for you, etc., are all free. What that translates to you is three things.
2. If you don’t kill something, then you do not pay anything. Not even for your meals and lodging.
3. We do not charge anything for non hunters. We do this so that wife’s can accompany husbands, parents can accompany children, and so forth and so on. They stay for free, eat for free, go to the woods, stay at the lodge, whatever they want. This is a courtesy that we provide. All we ask is that you be courteous as well, and do not over due taking advantage of this.
4. This also means that your hunt is not charged by the day. We recommend 3 days for these hunts. First for arrival, orientation, checking weapons on the firing range if needed, etc.. The next two days are for hunting if needed. But by not charging for meals and lodging, then if you hunt two days, or 5 days, it does not change the price of the hunt. So what that means is that you can relax, because you are not ‘on the clock’ when you get here. But planning 3 days is a very good recommendation.
5. A $300 deposit PER HUNTER holds your date until you arrive. ALL DEPOSITS ARE NON REFUNDABLE. If any members of your party are a “no show”, their deposit does not go towards your hunt. Deposits can be mailed to: 51 Old Gordon Road, Grandview TN 37337, or called in over the phone with a card to 931-456-4643. Now if you send a deposit and schedule a hunt, we expect you to keep your word. If you cancel a scheduled hunt less than 1 month prior to that hunt, your deposit is not refundable, nor transferable. Also if you cancel on me less than 1 month out, lose your deposit, then want to schedule a second hunt, you will be required to pay 1/2 of the hunts value down upon booking. If you cancel MORE than 1 month prior to a hunt, then your deposit is non-refundable but IS transferrable to another date without penalty or any problems. The bottom line is that from the time you begin speaking to me about a hunt, until you hang your Taxidermy (if it is done here) on your wall, I will always 100% keep my word to you. I will act with honor and honesty through every transaction we have, ask anyone who has ever hunted here. I honor my commitments, SO I EXPECT YOU TO DO THE SAME.
6. ADDRESS TO THE LODGE: 51 Old Gordon Road, Grandview, TN 37337. (For GPS directions). Check in time on the day of your arrival is any time after 2 pm Central Time. We eat Supper at 5 pm Central Time, so if you can make it before then you can plan on eating supper with us. If your arrival is after 5 pm Central Time, you may want to grab a bite along the way, as we may have already eaten.
7. WEAPON CHOICES: There are no weapon restrictions. Hunt with whatever weapon you like. Rifle, Handguns, or any type of Archery. Remember, with a Rifle you can kill the best thing you see. With a Handgun, or Archery, you can kill the best thing you can get close to. We have no restrictions, but we do have recommendations if you would like to hear them. With a Rifle, we recommend a 243 or above. With a Handgun, we recommend a 44 magnum or above. With Archery we recommend a fixed, cut on contact, broad head like a Montec G5. But the most important advice I have for weapon of choice is that you bring whatever you are the most comfortable with.
8. Personal checks may be used for deposits. However, cash is preferred for final payment. If you are a mature adult who is afraid to carry cash, then we do take most major credit cards (not American Express).

1. WE FEED YOU 3 MEALS A DAY FREE
2. We do not have any discounts of any kind, except for our “Group Hunt Discounts”.
3. No animals allowed inside the lodge. Please excuse the next sentence, but todays society sees people trying to pull all kinds of crap, so here we go. No Pets, no service dogs, no seeing eye dogs, not even your emotional support parakeet. No animals of any kind will be allowed inside the Lodge. Lodging is not part of what you are paying for. Here you only pay for what you kill. Lodging is free. It is a courtesy we provide, not something you pay for to be able to claim a right over. The Lodge is our private property with rules to keep it clean, intact, and peaceful for our hunters. Anyone who doesn’t follow lodge rules will stay at the nearest motel, at their own expense. There are specific people in the world who are allergic to specific animals. If we allow animals into our lodge, then we compromise the comfort and health those people. We want to provide a clean, comfortable, and healthy lodge for our hunters, their friends, and their families. It’s not hard to understand.
4. No license is required. Hunting is year round, EXCEPT FOR THE MONTH OF JULY. Your kill is 100% guaranteed or you pay absolutely nothing. We hunt from comfortable Box Blinds and we also Spot and Stalk.
5. NO HIDDEN FEES all prices are as stated.
6. NO KILL NO PAY that means pay Nothing.
7. Lodging is FREE.
8. Skinning and Quartering of meat is FREE.
9. The Three Must Haves: 1.Hunting Clothes 2.Weapon of Choice 3.Cooler for Meat
10. As for cooler size, you will need the equivalency of 150 Quarts “worth” of cooler ‘per Boar’ that you intend to take. It can be a big 150, or three small 40s, but it needs to equal at least 150 quarts “worth” of cooler. If you take a Boar here hunting with us that is under 400 pounds, it is because you wanted to. A 150 quart cooler will hold up to about a 700 pound Boar if you have the meat Fully Processed. If you skin and quarter that may not be enough, but 150 quarts worth of cooler is a good recommendation. Also know that if you have room for an extra cooler or two, throw them in the truck. Nothing makes a person madder than having to go buy an extra cooler when he left 2 at the house.
11. Recommended 2 or 3 day hunt. Your first day is for travel and arrival, getting settled, orientation, checking guns, etc.. We do have a gun range. Arrival is any time after 2 pm Central Time. We do supper at 5 pm Central Time. You will begin hunting the next morning. We hunt mornings. Afternoons are reserved for dealing with meat taken that morning. We are very successful in the mornings. We have an entire team dedicated to finding and putting you on the Trophy you have described to us during the orientation that you are looking for. We always like to allow for a second day of hunting just in case it is needed. So your 2 or 3 day recommended hunt consists of, a first day for arrival, two days of hunting “If Needed”, and most folks depart the following day. Your meals and lodging are all FREE, you are not charged by your stay in any way. So don’t worry about ‘being on the clock’. You are here until you find the Trophy you are looking for. You only pay for what you harvest. Everything else is FREE.
12. Taxidermy Available.
13. Full Processing and Packaging of Meat Available with SAME DAY SERVICE. The guy we use to Fully Process Meat charges $350 for a Boar, $200 for a Fallow Deer, and $150 for a Ram. The Boars he usually processes for us range from 400 to 600 pounds. His sausage and burger are all packaged in 1 pound packages, and all of the cuts are vacuum sealed. He will then ice everything down in your coolers for you. Our men work your animals to him for you and back to our lodge for you. Your meat is then placed in our big Walk In Cooler, where it will remain for you until you are ready to depart. Again everything this processor does for you is all completed the same day you harvest your animal. One main point is when you have a Boar Fully Processed, we HIGHLY recommend the sausage. Everyone loves the sausage this guy makes, and we do much of our meals at the lodge with it simply to show you how good it is.
14. Meat Yield Expected from a Boar: Wild Mature Boars have a relatively low meat yield as compared to other animals. The bulk of a Mature Boar’s weight is in his hide. Hogs killed for slaughter in a store, for example, are young 6 or 7 month old hogs that do not have a thick grissel shield on them. So they will yield a higher percentage of meat, as compared to body weight. The ’Tiny’ hogs taken in Texas are usually very very young. They are shooting them extermination style out there and Trophy Size animals are rarely taken. So they are not old enough to have a shield as well. But as a Boar gets older and matures, he develops a thick grissel  shield on his shoulders and eventually clear down his rib cage to his rear end. This is developed for fighting and for defense when fighting. This shield can grow to be anywhere from 2.5 to 4 inches thick of just plain old hard grissel. This makes up a very high percentage of his body weight. Which takes away from the meat yield you can expect from a big Mature Boar. I killed a nice Boar one time and brought him out of the woods whole. He weighed exactly 322 pounds ‘Live Weight’. I gutted him, put the guts in a bucket, weighed that, then subtracted for the bucket. The guts alone were 70 pounds almost exactly. Then I skinned him, cut his head off, and weighed the head and hide. The head and hide weighed 126 pounds. So right there we have almost exactly 200 pounds gone from a Mature Boar that weighed 322 pounds. That is with the two back feet and all the bones still left in him. Now understand, a Wild Boar is one of the heaviest boned animals in the entire world, as far as bone density goes. Then one has to consider ’Shot Damage’ from the bullet, or more often, the “Bullets” that killed him. Also, Mature Wild Boars spend most of their life fighting other Boars over females. So we have ‘meat damage’ from shots and from battle wounds. Then we have to discuss ’Trash Meat’. That is meat that is so full of tendons and grissel, that if you add it to the mix it only makes what meat you have almost unchewable and very tough. Then there is an over abundance of fat. Some fat is needed for flavor, but many meat processors simply add it, to add weight to the total ‘meat yield weight’ just so they don’t get bitched at by the customer. So understanding all of what I have just explained to you above, now let me tell you how we do it. I want every aspect of your trip here with us to be a pleasure. From the first phone call with questions, to you hanging your mount on the wall, to you putting the last bite of this meat harvested here in your mouth. When you look back on your entire experience, I want you to say to yourself “I need to do that again”. Making all of the meat you take home, be the best meat, is a big part of your experience. In fact, the most important part, because it will be the “Last” memory. Because of this I give the Meat Processor strict orders not to add any damaged meat, any trash meat, or unnecessary amounts of fat. Because of that, the meat hunters leave here with is fantastic, especially the sausage. So without adding total garbage meat to the final yielded weight some people feel the Meat Yield is low. The average Boar taken here is between 400 and 600 pounds, and if you go to use our Meat Processor, my son Leko will tell you while you are deciding, that the average Meat Yield on a Hog this size is between 50 to 80 pounds. Now we do Skinning and Quartering of your Meat for free. Skin it Quarter it and ice it down in your cooler for Free. So if that Meat Yield that our processor does doesn’t suit you, then the answer is simple. Let us skin it, quarter it, and you take it to another processor who will add the trash meat, damaged meat, and 4 times more fat than is need just to add weight to the final meat yield, so that you will be happy. It will be a bunch of old fatty, grissely, hard to chew up ’Shit’, but at least you’ll be happy with the ‘meat yield’. But if you want all good meat, we will be glad to have our guy Fully Process your hog for you. But do me one favor. If I tell you on here that you will get between 50 to 80 pounds of Meat Yield. Then my son tells you as you are looking at the Meat Processing Slip, that you will get a Meat Yield of 50 to 80 pounds, then don’t receive 50 to 80 pounds of Meat Yield, then go home and write me a bad google review on my lodge because you are not happy with the Meat Yield you received. The exact amount we told you you would receive. Understand that 98% of the people leaving here are ecstatically happy with everything. The last few ill tempered remarks are for that 2 % that can’t understand the English Language. Ha Ha.
15. The average shot distance here is between 50 and 70 yards. We are in the Mountains of East Tennessee and we are all wooded, so our terrain does not allow for long ‘bean field’ shots. I tell folks, if you have a scope on your gun, don’t take it off. If you don’t have one then don’t put one on.
16. Size of Area We Hunt. My family got here in 1806. Needless to say between myself and family members we have access to hunt Thousands of acres. I am in the most remote part of my county and most of the land for miles around me is owned by someone kin to me. Quality is our goal here. Quality of the lodge, quality of food and meals, quality of hunting Box Blinds, quality of animals harvested, and most importantly the quality of Personal Attention to our hunters. We try to schedule hunting around 6 to 10 hunters per day (sometimes more or less if group size grows or shrinks once bookings have been made). Our goal is to not hunt more folks in a day than we can give personal guide attention to as needed to find the best quality Trophy per hunter. Again, it is quality, not mass numbers of hunters, that we are after here. So come join in for a quality stay, a quality hunt, and a quality Trophy Animal.
17. We also offer Hydrographics (Hydro Dipped Skulls).
18. If you are a person who needs to walk his guts out up and down mountains for 3 to 10 days to feel “satisfied” that he has “earned” his Trophy, then book a Mountain Lion Hunt in Wyoming or a Marco Polo hunt in the middle East. Please don’t contact me about the massive challenge that you need to make your life fulfilled. But if you are a person who would like to come to a nice, gun friendly, State. A State that keeps very nice temperatures winter and summer. If you want to stay in a very nice lodge, eat 3 meals of very good food every day, take nice hot showers, set around a nice camp fire, and then sleep in a nice soft bed every night. If you would like to hunt out of very nice spacious 12 foot by 20 foot Box Blinds. Doing Spot and Stalks, if necessary, that do not range very far from your stand. If you want to harvest MASSIVE Wild Boar that will average in weight 400 pounds AND UP. If that is the person you are, then we welcome you to join us here at Spartan Hunting Preserve. Thank you for taking the time to read this information. Mitch Kemmer / owner.

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