First, let me be clear...I have yet to interject my opinion on fair chase, not fair chase, pro or con high fence.

But...this thread reads like a lot of the anti "pro" threads these days. Full of stereotypical assumptions stated as facts...assumptions that you really don't know to be true or not. Just like a feed lot? How do you know? Have you hunted one of these ranches? Don't tell me televsion, because you have no idea of how many hunts it took before the final showing.Maybe they hunted unsuccessfully for a week straight before finally hitting the feeding period just right. I guarantee you that you are wrong when you say "all have breeder bucks in pens". No, not all of them do. Some do. I also guarantee you are wrong when you say they all are "domesticated as the local...". No, not all deer behind every high fence are domesticated and without fear and avoidance of humans. I have hunted huge TX ranches for hogs...I can tell you that the ranches I have hunted had no breeder bucks, and the deer were exactly like the ones I come across in MO - afraid of humans to the highest degree.

So...based on your statements...if I have a food plot with a shooting house, and I shoot a nice buck out of it while many other deer are in my plot, it isn't fair chase, right?

Yes, I suppose a deer could go from TX to OK if it wanted to. But, it could also get out of the high fence if it wanted to. I also know that 10,000 acres is way, way more land than mother nature "naturally spreads the deer out" as you say. In a 10,000 acre ranch, there are plenty of deer that never, ever see the fence because it is way, way out of their home range.

Still, no voicing of my opinion one way or another on the fair chase, high fence issue. Just some devil's advocate thoughts for debate.