Without doubt, the south is a much greater value for money than the north! Literally more bank for your buck. Prices in Canada and Europe and some of the states are totally beyond reason, and almost exploitive. Africa, Argentina and New Zealand seem better priced( New Zealand fast catching up to NA)

cant tell that much.

maybe have a look on a map.

Canada is the second largest country with barely any inhabitants no roads to reach the remotest parts ... so cost to reach the places ...

there are some parts in Tanzania that are not cheap to reach either ....

Limited tags, unique species in limited geographic regions and the fact that most hunters don't have to leave the continent all attribute to it I suspect. No question North America is expensive compared to the rest of the world but it seems the North American high dollar hunts, especially sheep are the ones that book up the fastest.

Maybe because they are not 3rd world countries, with dismal currencies and people who will work for nothing.

Supply and Demand.

And most people in US and Canada will not work for $100/week.

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Originally posted by Dogleg:
Maybe because they are not 3rd world countries, with dismal currencies and people who will work for nothing.

Bingo!

To a degree supply and demand factors into things when it comes to sheep and the big bears. Limited quotas on certain species severely restrict outfitters on how many hunters they can take for 'glamor game' in many jurisdictions.

That aside much of northern Canada is still very remote with limited or no road access. You can't just go and grab a crew and cut a new two track in to a new camp. Many remote lodges and camps can only be accessed by plane and so every last egg, screw, board or bag of grain has to go inky plane and charters are brutally expensive.

In other areas supply may have to take place only in the winter when the muskeg has frozen and a cat train hauls in fuel, etc for the next season. Others are strictly supplied what you can take in on a packhorse and still others sling supplies in with a chopper.

Guides are paid from around $125 a day on the low side to well over $200 a day for some species.

Sure an elk hunt on one of the Apache reservations is a ridiculous price when you look at what it costs for them to run the hunt. That is supply and demand because the elk nuts will pay whatever for a chance to hunt there. But those situations are only a small percentage of the outfitted hunts in North America.

The guys hunting in the remote areas have big expenses.

To me New Zealand is the most over priced for the $$$$.

Quality American and Canadian hunts are second.

Asia is cheap when you compare the experience to the adventure.

Find one that charges in Canadian dollars and you might have a deal! An Ontario outfitter that we used a couple years ago is pushing that, but I think most of them want USD.

Yeah - even the hookers in Canada want US dollars now