I have been on golf courses where the deer will play on the course and let you hit balls at them and talk all you want or walk towards them until you get too close. I have been hiking on the AT and had a bunch of does let me hike within 50 feet of them before they moved down the trail another 50 feet and let me get close to them again before moving two more times before finally running off. I've seen bucks bedded within 75 yards of a chained barking dog. I've had does and a young buck come in my yard with my kids playing and yelling and on a swing and come within 50 yards of us and start eating chestnuts in broad daylight.Think about deer that feed next to roads, within 30 feet of cars flying by, peacefully eating. But let one car slow down or stop....Bam they're gone like a flash. It's all what deer are used to. I'm sure they're used to Ted talking all the time on his ranch (he is a bit of a motor-mouth) I've seen him chasing his buffalo on foot so I'm sure he's out a lot and loud a lot. He's definitely a vocal spokesman for hunting and 2nd amendment rights and I say more power to him. I saw him and his wife and daughter on some tv talk show making the host look like an uninformed fool. His wife and daughter know their stuff too.
Also, so what if his deer are fenced? I really get tired of the macho types that have their ego so tied to how difficult their hunts are, yet I doubt they book hunts for PA or NJ or some of the more overhunted areas in the states. It's not a elemtary school contest. If Ted enjoys hunting on a 5,000 acre fenced preserve, more power to him, that's more free-ranging deer for the rest of us. A large fenced in property is no worse/better than hiking three days into national forest and hunting. Your fence there is just miles of solitude. Either way you are hunting undisturbed deer. ("Well I earned it by hiking for three days." Well he "earned it" by making lots of money over many years, buying the right land, fencing it in, buying stock and managing the land. Which takes a lot longer than three days.)It's not like he's shooting them in a running pen. What diffence does it make? It doesn't make him or you a better man/hunter. Get over your ego, or tie it to something more important like how you raise your kids, how you interact with society, what you do to better mankind and just enjoy the time you have to hunt without all the competition. /rant