Your barrier is pretty useless if a deer will just jump over it..........unless that's part of your design and you are perhed at the jump point.
The barrier fence is designed as an obstacle not as confinement. An unpressured deer will usually walk around the fence (desired result). A pressured deer may jump right over it, depending on how it feels.
A wire fence was mentioned as one of those "obstacles".
Uuuh, yeah. It was.
Again........using a fence to steer a deer to your stand.......how is that different then a fence put up all around a property for the exact same purpose? They both do the same thing.........cause a deer to alter it's natural path and guide him to a waiting hunter.
I know you're smart enough to know the answer to this question........... but again, a perimeter fence is for confinement and an obstacle fence directs movement closer to your stand.
These two fences are not for the exact same purpose. A fence around a 40 acre piece will not direct movement towards your stand and unless it is a high fence, it will not contain deer either. To be clear, I was talking about your normal 4-5 foot fence.
Now if you have a 60 yard wide creek bottom and a stand that is in the last good size tree near an opening by the creek. The deer may be hugging the creek about 40 yards from your stand. If you put a 50' length of fence from the creek towards your stand, you have a good chance of directing deer movement to about 20 yards of your stand.
These two types of fences have entirely different purposes.