RE: Canned hunts
One of the guidesfrom an Illinois hunt I went on, used to work at a high fence ranch. While riding in the truck with him, he told me numerous stories of disgrace on the particular ranch he worked for.......One of which has been branded in my mind, will never be forgotton.....Apparantly an older "hunter", maybe in his 70's or so had never killed a 200" buck before. Forthe old mansbirthday, his son booked a High Fence Hunt, and paid the ranch 12,000.00 for his father to killtheir prized buck, which was well over 200"(I don't remember the name of the buck, or it's EXACT score). After setting this so called hunter up in his blind, Paul,(the guy that used to work for the ranch) had to let the buck out of it's cage, and chase it around for over an hour until he could get it to run by the guys blind so he could shoot it. I mean he was actually chasing behind it on foot, trying to "SHOO IT" away from him, because the buck was so tame...... I know not all ranches are this bad, but alot of them apparantly are within the ranks.