RE: Should high fence deer pens be illegal???
 

I have seen this debate on internet sites and there is always a ugly dividing line ....

I agree with Txhighrack, things like high fences have been around for a long long time, sometimes there are different reasons for high fences to be put up, Here's one reason, you take someone like me that works my but off on improving the deer herd and I have 1000 or more acres and I have a bad neigbor that knows what I'm doing and starts to bring in 30-40 hunters a year and starts to profit off of all my hard work, guess what he is about to get!!!! Fenced out!! Sometimes its about bad hunters, sometimes its about herd management, its the property owners choice.

Now for what I think is right, I dont have a probelm with high fences what I have a probelm with is SMALL ranchs putting up high fences, I personally think there should be a limit on the acreage before you can put up a high fence. I personally hunt on a high fenced ranch a couple times a year that consists of 14,250 acres and was fenced in 1982. Are the deer easier to hunt, NOPE!!!and anybody that thinks they would be is misinformed. And the owners work there butt's off improvong the herd and manageing the land and cattle...

Heres a old saying from the ranch manager of the Famous Briscoe-Catarina ranch, " I did'nt put up high fences to keep the deer in, I put them up the keep the bad neigbors out"...

RE: Should high fence deer pens be illegal???
 

That is their right to do it . and they do it in Texas all the time and have some of the finest hunting in the world.

RE: Should high fence deer pens be illegal???
 

Dang exspensive dirt!!! 2000-5000 per acre let me guess , your not going to buy enough to hunt on for that price per acre....

RE: Should high fence deer pens be illegal???
 

Misread the response.

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Its not for me but I refuse to tell some other its not for them . To each there own.

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My thoughts exactly!

RE: Should high fence deer pens be illegal???
 

I normally go with that too ........... however, I believe few non-hunters agree with the concept of raising deer in a pen and then allowing people to pay high prices to shoot them for their horns.

Thats not Hunting .......... and in my opinion it will destroy what Hunting is within 2-3 decades. Its already hugely popular with folks who got a lot of money, want big antlers on their walls and don't want to put any work into it.[:o]

RE: Should high fence deer pens be illegal???
 

those closed in hunts are for the people that go out spend over 1000 dollars on equipment. no nothing about hunting put others in danger shoot at animals to far away wound them but dont go look for it. and get mad if they dont get something and quit hunting. or there the onese that spend all the money no nothing go in smelling like " spring air dried" detergent and bag one of the biggest bucks you and i have ever seen. then say they are the best hunter in the world. i personally beleive it's bull crap. i also feel the same way about baiting its bull also. i will never buy tinks or anything like that.

RE: Should high fence deer pens be illegal???
 

i shoot stuff:

I hunt high fenced ranches and I'm sorry, but I dont fit either one of your definitions nor do any of my buddies or clients that I know who also hunt high fenced properties. Your post is full of nonsense.......

RE: Should high fence deer pens be illegal???
 

We don't have many high fenced areas here in Missouri but I've been hunting in Texas and hunting behind a fence is not a big deal. Just like Cardeer stated, when hunting multi thousand acre ranches, most deer never see a fence.

RE: Should high fence deer pens be illegal???
 

(1)High fenced kills should not be allowed in any record books except for perhaps a high fenced record book.

By bad neighbors are you referring to trespassers or to neighbors that are enjoying killing the "public's" deer on their adjacent property, that perhaps you have been feeding? I have a differing opinon.......I believe it is to keep the deer in.