To all you guys that think that hunting behind high fence is like a "canned" hunt....Let me give you guys a little more insight on this subject.

Now some of you may wonder, "why is this guy about to talk about census..." I will explain in a few minutes so bear with me.....

I read an article in either Field and Stream or Hunting News or one of those publications several years back. The article was about taking a census of your deer herd.

This guy wanted to prove that taking an accurate census of a deer herd is impossible and this is how he did it. He had a 100 acre tract completely enclosed by high fence. On this 100 acres, he released 100 deer. Using every form of census taking used (drives, helecopter, spot light....) the best count they could manage was around 50% of the deer. When all was said and done, they trapped the deer again on this place and there was still 100 deer, every one accounted for.

Point is, if you guys think that hunting deer behind high fence is not sporting concider this...

In this example we are talking about 100 acres. Most ranches that high fence thier land are over 1000 acres and the reason they do it is to manage thier herd with protein and select harvest. The young bucks (1 1/2 - 4 1/2) are not harvested, thereby they get to grow to thier full potential. Now, if any of you think that a buck that is on a 1000 acre ranch, high fence or not, that is over 5 1/2 yrs of age isn't a challenge to harvest then you truly are mistaken. You still have to scout and find sign and everything that is concidered hunting.
Now if a guide does all this work and somebody else shoots the deer, then we have another debate as in if this is truly hunting.

If you think that game management in this respect is not work then you have never done it.

So really, this poll should be about hunting with an outfitter. Not about hunting inside a high fence.

JMHO