CAelknuts more information is needed to be honest. The fence you described isn't a barrier to elk. You're hunting private lands so that tips things in your favor more so than public land animals but sure, that can be fair chase.

How about this - you say the high fenced areas are despicable, but if its a high fenced African hunt, is that more or less canned that paying Mossback and his 15 scouters to find the Spider bull for the shooter ?