BawanaJim:
Shooting deer that can not escape an enclosure is not fair chase hunting .Shooting penned deer is wrong
Your right shooting any "penned" animal is wrong. That why canned hunting is ILLEGAL in Texas. But most Texans and politicans known and can tell the difference between a multithousand acre ranch that has an 8foot fence compared to a 1 acre pen that has old circus animals walking around.
Shooting deer from a truck window is wrong no matter where you are ,it is wrong.
You might be suprised by how many antelope out west are killed from the cab of a truck. And besides most of us Texans dont shoot "OUT OF OUR WINDOW" unstead we have a hyrack or top drive mounted on the cab of the truck, big difference
. But thats not just a Texas thing, people in Mexico and Arizona do it for muledeer and couses deer. Top drives and hyracks stay......
Baiting a white tailed deer is not right.Baiting waterfowl was outlawed a long time ago becase it creates birds to easily killed,it is time to outlaw baiting deer also.
Look where talking about deer, not a federal law about birds. And where you arefrom baiting deer is not legal and you've probably have never done it or have any knowledge about it. Sprinkling out some corn on a sendero before climbing up into your stand has and always will be a Texas tradition, just like killing nubbing bucks is a PA tradition. Baiting in the Lone Star state will never be illegal, nor should it be, trust me on that one...
There is very little public land in Texas so anyone that wants to hunt has to pay these fees,
Texas has always been a private state, and thats something where proud of. The only people who complain are the guys who dont own any land or have anywhere to hunt, sorry but thats not our fault. The land of Texas is owned by the people, meaning the people ACTUALLY own it, not just borrow it like you find in states with public lands. I think the whole "public land system" is great but I think the private land system is even better and is what the country is suppose to be all about. Personally I think the public land in this country is very similar to the wealthfare system. Sorry but give me private land over public ANY DAY OF THE WEEK.........