Average shooter prices

Virgil: My business is not just a couple month deal. I work year round. I started trying to book some of my clients back in Feb. plus we do hog hunts, and a few exotics. But believe me when there are no hunters here there is still plenty to do. Just maintenance on everything is alot of work. Over 10 miles of road in the preserve, 20 feeders to keep running, a lodge that sleeps 25, 6 miles of fence. So anyone that thinks its that easy to work 2 months and double your money just jump right in and do it. This same discussion is in this thread a couple time already. So no need in whipping a dead horse. I just tried to get on here and share my shooter prices to be nice and it turns into a snowball. All I know is the breeders can't survive without a place to go with their bucks. So everyone needs to work together orthe deer farming will go down the tubes because people cant afford to feed them. I dont want to raise my own deer. I have enough work and worry without that. Oh and any of you that want to come and help, come on down.

Bow Safari i appreciate your replies, its great to hear from a preserve owner on here. You make great points. I think the only way that we can work agreements is when buying multiple deer from one guy. Say you give a guy 15 k for 4 bucks, and you give another guy 2k for one buck, i think the guy you paid more to has some flexibility, but you cant expect a guy that only had one shooter for the year to split it, that might be the guys only income from his deer for the whole year. If I were selling to a preserve I would be willing to work with them a little if they pay fair and buy mulitiples. If they would lose one and they give me the rack from the dead buck for proof, i see nothing wrong with helping you recoup a little, especially if you were very fair with your prices and scored them right in front of my eyes, however i must be honest, if i only have one shooter to sell for the whole season (which is the case for me this year) I simply couldn't do it, I would be counting on that money to feed my other deer for a couple months. I think the preserve and the farmer need to talk to each other one on one during each sale, I dont think there is any way you can set a rule to go by, there are to many variables and no 2 situations will be alike, It has to be dealt with on a one on one basis.

Not offended at all Virgil. Thats how you figure things out by throwing it all out on the table. We all have investments to protect and none of us want to lose anything. Especially with the economy we have right now. We all just need to figure out what works best on every deal cause they are all different. Our businesses are dependent on one another and if we want the whitetail industry to survive we have to cooperate.

This way you can shoot them as you bring them to your preserve. A nother thing you can do is build holding pens and just release them into your preserve as you need them.

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There is your answer right there. The only other thing you can do is buy large groups from a single owner. If they were all raised together there is generally less fighting. Otherwise it's just how whitetails are. If you suffer to many losses and and aren't making money. You have two choices quit or lower your buying price so you can make a go of it.

Sharing losses while it sounds good will just not work out well. Bad feeling all round. It's better to pay less.