I have seen this debate on internet sites and there is always a ugly dividing line ....

I agree with Txhighrack, things like high fences have been around for a long long time, sometimes there are different reasons for high fences to be put up, Here's one reason, you take someone like me that works my but off on improving the deer herd and I have 1000 or more acres and I have a bad neigbor that knows what I'm doing and starts to bring in 30-40 hunters a year and starts to profit off of all my hard work, guess what he is about to get!!!! Fenced out!! Sometimes its about bad hunters, sometimes its about herd management, its the property owners choice.

Now for what I think is right, I dont have a probelm with high fences what I have a probelm with is SMALL ranchs putting up high fences, I personally think there should be a limit on the acreage before you can put up a high fence. I personally hunt on a high fenced ranch a couple times a year that consists of 14,250 acres and was fenced in 1982. Are the deer easier to hunt, NOPE!!!and anybody that thinks they would be is misinformed. And the owners work there butt's off improvong the herd and manageing the land and cattle...

Heres a old saying from the ranch manager of the Famous Briscoe-Catarina ranch, " I did'nt put up high fences to keep the deer in, I put them up the keep the bad neigbors out"...