Jimmy makes a good point.
"Fenced" has to be taken into context. Don't get me wrong, shooting a deer in a pen is wrong. I am not making a case for it being ok, but just spurring discussion as to where that grey area might be.
If you are hunting a hundred acre parcelwith a fence, could that be considered fair chase? Probably depends on the topography and ground cover/trees. What about 200 acres, 300 , 400? A couple hundred acre fenced in area in the swamps and hardwoods of Mississippi and Alablama is absoloutly different compared to the same area in south Texas or Oklahoma.Hunting bean fields and cutovers of a couple hundred acres is also incomparable to the steep hills and forests of southern Tenn and northern Alabama.
I read a study several years ago in which they put a dozen deer in a 5 acre high fence pen and put a bunch of people in with them to see if they could spot them. Really wish I had kept the article. The intent was to see how and how well deer can hide. The deer avoided the people by crouching, crawling, and basically hiding. The people had problems locating the deer, even when walking abrest and driving through the enclosure. They even recaptured the deer and put red collars on them to help the hunters, even then they had problems locating the deer.
So,
My question here is, what do you guys think constitues a small enuff area to be unsporting??
200 acres? 500 acres?
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Hank