Interesting question here...how much do you spend for leases, corn, feeders, etc...and what is your price per pound per say for venison after you do all this?

For example...if you spend 3K per year for lease and corn, and get your 5 deer, is it still cost efficient?

Thousands. It's better not to ask these things.

You want cost efficient go to Wal Mart. I hunt as a way of life and a passion that only members here understand.

Way cheaper to buy beef, but no where near as fun.

Thanks Ramsay. That about sums it up.

Who cares? It isn't about cost.

Cost efficient? Don't know why that even matters because as Ramsay said it's a way of life.

When you start thinking of a Hobby, Sport or doing anything you enjoy as "Is it cost efficient" you better take another look at yourself.

These two quotes say it all!

This is a reply I sent to a good friend that wanted to "buy" some jerky from me. While I was just giving him a hard time, you really don't want to know what you really pay for the meat.


Had a friend email me that he wanted to buy some jerky from me.
I always give him some when I make a batch, and now he wants more.
My reply to his email.

Let me do the math real quick and see what it costs.
I spend $2000 a year on the lease.
I spend $2300 on protein and corn.
Gas for all the trips throughout the year runs about $1700.
Food, ammo, beer and miscellaneous items come in around $1300.

I usually take and butcher 5 deer.
Average live weight is around 100 pounds.
After removing the head, hide, hooves, bones and sinew each deer yields about 25 pounds of usable meat.
Total meat for all 5 would be 125 pounds.

It takes me 8 pounds of meat to yield 1 pound of jerky.

Total cost for meat $7300.
7300/125= $58.40 per pound.
8 X 58.40= $467.20 per pound for jerky.

How many pounds did you want to buy?

Good one!

I don't care what it cost. I don't hunt for the venison. It is the byproduct of enjoying the outdoors and living a lifestyle I love.

Take into account the years I don't pull the trigger and no telling what the price per pound is.

X2

Family bought the ranch and with the cost of operations we could kill every deer on the place and not break even

Hunting and the outdoors, for us, is a lifestyle.

Sorry for the crappy video quality, but Jeff Foxworthy lay's it out nicely for you....

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I am a lifelong hunter as well...I hunt public land in Oklahoma. I bought my lifetime hunting and fishing licenses there over 10 years ago before I moved to Texas. I am two hours from where I hunt, and get at two deer a year...

I am just asking a simple question, not offending people. I am just curious about how much people normally spend each year on hunting? My total dollar amount is about $200-$300 in gas for trips over all seasons,$150 for camping (yes RV at the lake with showers each night... :-) ). Everything else is just R-n-R in the great outdoors...

Texas is different.

We don't have to quality public land like other states.

This means lease fees, feed costs, etc

Can't forget taxidermy either

If you think venison is expensive, try calculating the cost of dove!

I'm eating $3 doves probably

Sounds like a great poll
?? under 500/yr
?? 500-1000/yr
?? 1000-2500/yr
?? 2500-5000/yr
etc

Before I got into hunting I asked a co-worker if I could buy some venison from him cause I wanted to make chili using ground up venison and when he denied the request I was confused. Now that I have started hunting I understand his reasons. When you start to sell the meat it no longer becomes a hobby. This weeke I cooked up some dove and brought it into work and it felt great to share the meat with some of my co-workers/friends.

Correct. It becomes illegal.

What do you get when you divide Zero by any other number? Ha! and I still enjoyed the season...

Good stuff Diver Texas.