and 2 the doble droped t whitetail was hunted on the oppened areea(8000 acres )of the place I hunt, the others ofcourse where on a reserve or I don't know how to call it but is an extention of 6500 acres if that is called "canned or fenced " I don't know if you want to call it hunting or not
Mexhuntr, it was not my intention to bash you for your choice of shooting fenced animals. As I have said many times on many forums, I believe you have the right to pay a farm/ranch/canned/fenced operation for the right to kill one of their pen raised animals. My only point, and it has been backed by you and several others, by using phrases like these-
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I don't know if you want to call it hunting or not - Mexhuntr[*]Would I call that real hunting? Probably not - Berwindale[/ul]
Again, my point is to seperate "hunting" from shooting pen raised animals. Listen, you harvested that beautiful buck on open land, that deer was not raised or farmed for the sole purpose of someone to pay a fee to kill it. If it had travelled 1 or 2 miles west or south it could have found sanctuary. Since RedStags are not native in Texas, and as you stated, you shot it in a fenced pen where it was raised for slaughter just like a cow or pig. Little bigger pen, but it was still raised and fenced for harvest as soon as someone was willing to pay for it. Like you even admit, you don't know if we can call that hunting or not, but we both agree you have the right to do it. I ask, with no malice or bashing, to please not call it hunting. Call it harvesting, call it fun, call it an awesome time.... but when you call it hunting, the sport I have so much passion for has to then be aligned with Pen or Fenced operations, and while the one you were on may have been large, most aren't.
Guys, this isn't being negative or mean. Mexhuntr, I'd stand up and fight for your right to pay for the right to butcher your own animals, but if we can't differentiate hunting from shooting farmed animals then our "sport" doesn't have much hope.
I am off my soap box.