I agree that shooting fenced in animals is not a "fair chase" hunt. If you can pick the animal out from photos that you are going to shoot, I question rather that is hunting. But I don't condem the man that wants that, there may be a very good reason for him to be there that is none of my business.

Where I have a problem is with the terminology, i.e. "Ranch Hunts". I have a ranch, and we do hunt it. This is a cattle ranch in eastern Montana, 27,000 acres. I hear all the time that "ranch hunts" are not the same. If you come and hunt this "ranch" you'll see that it IS fair chase. If you run a big Mule Deer up to the fence (4 wire cattle fence) he'll jump over it and you'll be SOL. That's "fair chase" if there is such a thing.

My point is, I guess, that you shouldn't classify "fenced in" hunts as "Ranch Hunts". There are many ranches like ours that don't fence in the game animals, and have very nice, fair chace, "ranch hunts"!

Keep Smilin'

Blackhawk