There are a lot of differences between fenced in deer and free ranging deer. Yes the area they are fenced in may be large enough for a buck to have home area, but when a more dominant buck moves into his territory where does he go? He simply goes and runs off another buck out of his home turf, but he is still within the confines of the fence.

What if he, like a real free ranging deer wanted to move over to an area on the other side of a particular stream or river, could he go across the stream if the high fence was in his way like a real free ranging deer?

With real free roaming deer they do not receive special foods at feeders, if there are feeders they are free to go to them or not.

If I spook a free roaming deer there is a possibility that the deer will run onto property that I do not have permission to hunt on, with a high fence you can spook a deer until the cows come home and you know he will still be within the confines of your fence.

When I killed my biggest 8 pointer (A free roaming deer) his huge rack was not due to selective breeding or culling out the inferior bucks, nor was his rack due to being special foods, his huge rack was due to him and him alone, me killing him was not due to knowing he would spend his entire life in an area I knew he could never leave, it was due to the fact that I outsmarted him on his own terms as a wild and free roaming animal.

I am not saying that a deer confined to a 1,000-100,000 acre fenced in area is not wild, they are, nor am I saying that he is not hard to get a shot at, what I am pointing out is you will always know he is there! You never know when hunting free roaming deer if the buck you saw when scouting preseason will even be in the same county you are hunting little lone if he will be in the same 1,000 acres.

The point I am trying to make which no high fence hunter nor anyone who owns a high fence operation can dispute is this, unless the deer you saw in preseason died, that same deer will still be inside the high fence unlike a free roaming deer.