ORIGINAL: BigJ12
I agree with most of what you have posted, I think the elk hunt was as tough and it was reported, again different degrees of what I was saying.
Yea........that was interesting to me. I bet most people would go into that situation thinking it was a slam dunk-shootin' fish in a barrell type thing.
It would be fairly easy to keep deer in a certian area like the corner of a big fenced ranch or even in the middle for that matter, just provide plenty of food and water in that area and set up in a position to put the deer between you and the fence. Not much unlike what others do even without a fence.
I agree..........that can be accomplished with or without a fence in place.
The deer in your back yard come for a reason and they will continue to show up too. There is also a reason why you don't shoot them too. Becides the potential legal issues you have made it clear that you would not "hunt" those deer even if you could.
Exactly..........and there is no fence keeping them anywhere. Those deer can't be hunted.........you could kill every last one of them VERY easily though.
Again, the cornering of the deer in the 10,000 acre fenced ranch is a hypothetical situation, I don't know if that is what happens, although if I thought of it I'm sure someone elsesomewhere did as well.
I know you just meant hypothetical and I have no idea what goes on inside a huge fenced ranch either. If I had to guess I would say that having 10,000 acres of land is pretty wasteful if you are just gonna corner them in 5 acres to shoot. I would think that people just "hunt" those 10,000 acres and it's up to them to find and kill the deer just like fishing in a stocked pond. Fences of that magnitude are nothing more then extreme QDM (making SURE your neighbors don't shoot your deer) and in place to protect the assets/investment of the land owner. Let's face it, if you are gonna sell hunts on your property would you want all your neighbors killing deer you could be getting $5,000 for?? I wouldn't. I fence my garden in........not to keep the veggies in........to keep the animals out because I want to protect what is inside so I can harvest it.
If the "hunt" took place right smack dab in the middle of the 10,000 acres with no food plot and no water or attractant of any kind it would be a totally different situation. Your not going to find too many like that because they fence them in for a reason........but it does make you think.
I assumed that IS what it would be like........perhaps naively. I don't see why you would fence in 10,000 acres if you are only gonna use 20........not only that but 10,000 acres is impossible to control. It is over 15 1/2 square miles..........if a deer doesn't want to go somewhere he isn't gonna. My guess is that the population is VERY dense within and this overcomes the need to hoard them into certain areas.
Great subject, I like to read the different views people have. I personally would not have any fences or food plots or anything at all if I owned 10,000 acres. I like to scout and shoot what Mother Nature provided be it a small acre parcel or a huge acre ranch. To me that's hunting.
I can't imagine the cost involved in fencing an area that large........wow. I wonder what the biggest fenced ranch is? I would imagine that you still would have to do plenty of scouting inside a 10,000 acre ranch.........fence or not.
I would just like to own 10,000 acres.............period.
