We have a ton of 'exclosures' around here in the National Forest. They fence off small tracts of land(usually recently logged, but not always) and make sure no deer reside within. Then they monitor the regeneration for a few years to see how overbrowsed the ANF is....then issue DMAP tags all over the woods so we can kill as many deer as humanly possible. Then we do it all over again next year! And the next....

I didn't see the show recently, but I think I've seen it before. I will not ever choose to hunt in a pen, but I also will not try to take away someone elses choices. He has a point, those pens are kept to quality standards unattainable in the wild from what I've seen(on shows and whatnot). The deer are usually bought or raised/bred to be trophy class....they don't want 'normal' deer mixing in with their $$$ genes. That doesn't mean I consider it hunting at all(I certainly don't) or that I think it's right, but that isn't what this thread was supposed to be about!