In a world with PETA and other similar organizations gaining influence every day, we hunters should stick together.
Well, PETA and similar groups won't ever like ANY form of hunting, but surely high fenced hunting has not helped the hunters image in their eyes or the eyes of most non-hunters in the least! Yeah, some high fence operations are on large tracts of land, but correlations will always be made with the videos of hunters shooting game in much smaller confines by most people, even hunters. Whether it is right or wrong to make such correlations is up to you guys who hunt and operate high fenced areas to defend. Most hunters who have not hunted in such places really have no way of defending it since they can't know everything that happens during a hunt on it. Since some of these ranches use helicopters to do game surveys who is to say that they can't fly a helicopter over it for some high paying customers to pinpoint where some of the best trophies are and then rush the guide along with the hunter to the vicinity? Yes, I know it wouldn't be a guarantee that they will then see the animal, but since the animal IS confined and can't get out, their odds ARE a bit better than someone attempting something similar on non-fenced property. When BIG money starts to talk, ethics along with most things go right out the window!