Yep, HF operations are not for me nor do I think they are good for the hunting community as a whole. I know the argument that we all need to stick together blah blah blah, but I am sorry I just can't get there.

And the argument is always the same. "Well, most of these places are 10,000's of acres."

Baloney.I have no statistics to back it up, but being a Texan who frequently travels to the part of Texas where they are most prevelant (Austin and San Antonio areas in general) I am comfortable in making the statement that most of them areon 640 acres or less.

Proof that they do harm to the image of hunting overall can be found by looking no further than in theopinion most hunters have in regard to Texas as a hunting state.

Again, I have no actual statistics to back this up, but I would surmise that HF operations make up less than 1% of the deer habitat in the entire state, yet when whitetail hunting in Texas comes up in a discussion, it is already dismissed as being ALL HF canned operations.

Thankfully, in the extreme northern part of the state where I live, we don't have any, at least not yet.