I think that any ranchwhether it is 5 acres or 1,000 acres or 10,000 acrescan be and is manipulated by the people running the ranch or owning the land. They know where the animals are on their properties or about where the animals are because many of these places are feeding/baiting as well as having a fence. You can easily isolate and predict animal locations when you are the one ringing the dinner bell, 10,000 acres can get a lot smaller if you only have 10-20 feeding stations or watering holes, and yes technically the animals could leave but why would they when they are motivated by survival and for the most part that means food, water, and a decent amount of cover. Just like the thread that this oneapparently stemmed from the hunter was "informed" of a nice group of elk in a particular area. I don't hunt there and I am admittedly ignorant to a lot ofinformation about Texas and ranch hunting(high fence, low fence, orno fence), but somebody knows what animals they have on their land and aboutwhere they are located, thenthat person tells others where to go(effectively reducing the size of the hunting area), andin the eyes of many that takes a little of the "chase" out of it, no comment on the "fair" part as each situation has it's own details and I was not there. Just a thought, I'm not too interested in this topic anymore but it is never going away, I tend to straddle the fence on this one because I can see there are valid points on both sides of the topic.Different regions orareas or states have different rules, laws, traditions and I try not to judge too harshly since I have never been too far from my home state and don't have first hand knowledge or any kind of personal hunting experience in other areas/states. I have taken flack before on this site for certain hunting methods practiced in my home state of VAand having grown up here and havingbeen introduced to those hunting methodsby men that I admire and respect who are good men that I still practice those methods with,Itook those attacks or flackas an attack on me and thosepeople I care about, (I' hope you guys understand what I meant there) almost like they were saying what we were doing is wrong and passing judgement on us when they did not even know us and many had never even hunted in VA. So I guess my point isI try not do that to othersand even thoughI do still have opinions on the topics I try tonever let "my" opinion(no matter how strong)keep me from seeing anothers point. If you read all of this, sorry for the length.