Datamax:

You really dont understand Texas a whole lot do you? South Texas for the most part is made up of many large private ranches. If hunting was ever banned, it would be awfully hard to control or even know whats going on in the middle of a big ranch. Most politicians in Texas own land, alot of them hunt. Since Texas is made up of 98% of private land, the private land owners in this state carry ONE HELL of a political stick. If we want something done, we can get it done. And honestly do you think some big landowner in Texas is going to listen to what some Liberal judge or congressman says? Like I said, us Texans will always be hunting, I cant say the same for the rest of the country.

Look not all of our land is high fenced, I would say about 40% of it is. Most of the land has a perimeter 4 strand barbwire fence. But we wanted to high fence some of it so we did, some of the other high fence was erected by a couple of various neighbors for their management program. When your neighbor high fences their land, you have no choice, your land has now become high fenced to. Which didnt bother us any, hell it saved us some money.

Hunting has always been a "common mans" sport. The average American is what made hunting what it is today, I cant deny that. But I think its going to be the upper class hunter and the wealthy guys who keep it alive in the next century. The reason why hunting is still around and the biggest thing that hunting has going for it, is the fact that it is a MULTI BILLON dollar industry. Lets be honest, to the average American, the ones that so many of ya'll are worried about when it comes time to vote, to them it looks good and sounds good when they hear that doctors, lawyers, politicans, CEO's, and big shots are out hunting. It dosent look good when they think the average hunter is Elmer Fudd.