RE: High Fence Part#2
I will be honest, as a business man your customers and the bottom line dictate what you do, not your personal beleifs. If I was running a hunting ranch and my clientle wanted to harvest big bucks and the fact they could not enter them ethically into the record books didn't matter to them I would fence it in. A ranch is a business that allows hunters who have the money to pay to kill the deer they want.
I would have no problem with them killing my deer while my pockets are bulging with their money, if they want someone to take the hunting out of hunting for them and simply come and kill a big buck I would take their money.
Would I hunt it myself? Heck no, except to thin out the does and the culls it would be bad business to kill a $5-10,000 deer! Not when I can go out and with the profits I make buy a couple of hundred acres of wide open property and by doing my own scouting and stand placement keep the hunting in my hunting, with very little cash layed out.