The problem with the most stubborn of posters on this topic is from the minority that equate hunting a quality private "free range" area with a guide is no different than a canned hunt in a 5 acre pen. There is a DISTINCT difference, but for a few who know they will never have that chance yet secretly wish so, they must convince themselves that they are better for dodging the orange army each weekend on public land!

I have never hunted on a high fence area, but have hunted on a large ranch in south TX (large by most standards, but at 50k acres it is small by south TX standards) and the place had one border that was 12 miles long and the average width of the ranch was over 3miles wide. The majority of the deer on that place NEVER would even see a fence if there was one there. Besides, the fence isn't to "contain" the deer as most who have never been there think. It is to keep poor genes out and to be able to keep some sort of semblence of a proper herd number and to also keep poachers/trespassers out.

Anyone who knows anything about REALLY hunting large, quality, free range places in TX and KS know that mature animals are rarely taken around feeders. They are just as smart as bucks anywhere else, does your typical 3 year old 8ptr saunter out onto a foodplot in broad daylight after opening weekend? If the TV shows have done anything, they have given a bad rap too ALL commerical hunting locales on the continent. I agree, a penned animal is NOT hunting, but to equate them with being guided on a quality free range (or even a large high fenced area) is just not the same. But I realize I aint gonna change any opinions for the naysayers anymore than they are gonna change my opinion!
RA