RE: High Fence considered cheating??
 

Let's just say I will never do it! [:'(]

RE: High Fence considered cheating??
 

I'll just say its not for me and add one comment, there is absolutely nothing that can beat taking an animal that is free ranging, no matter what the size.

RE: High Fence considered cheating??
 

I would like to read the rule book first. The true hunters bible if there is one that everyone would use and has some authority to it.:D

There are many hunters in the world and they all have their own idea's of what is and what is not true hunting. Some I have read about would condemn most if not all the forms of hunting in North America, bow hunters are a joke to them. It's a big world out there.:DBe careful before you decide on how to determine what is and what is not hunting, it could come back and be used to end your style. Personal freedom is the real issue and always should be top of the list.There's a lot more going on in a fenced area than somebody poking an animal. Local economies for one, are affected as well.

Personally I feel camera's are a kin to fences, cheating, but that's just me. Kind of like knowing what your going to get as a present. Love seeing the pic's, just don't want to know that much about the game is all. A string tied between trees high and low to give an indication of whether there's bucks or just doesgives great excitmentenough.

RE: High Fence considered cheating??
 

Not to reiterate, but reviewing the terrain and size of the pen would allow me to take a better stance onthis issue

RE: High Fence considered cheating??
 

Some good comments nodog, but I'd like to add an opinion about a certain situation.

Just a few minutes ago on another site I was reading a discussion about the best place to go hunt exotics and buffalo in another state. One poster stated he knows of a place that guaranteed a buffalo and they would take you out and let you shoot one. Anyway you slice it........thats not hunting, its simply shooting. Now I am not condeming an individual who would do that within that scenario, its plain to see a person wants the meat and most likely the rug, head. But no way can that be called hunting.

RE: High Fence considered cheating??
 

Most animals in Africa are all with in high fences, but yet they are concidered "free ranging"! Some of those ranches are 50,000 acres plus!!
There have been studys done and it has been found that most hunters don't walk more than about 1 mile from thier vehicle, although most think they walk further than that. 1 mile. So, most guys cover about 640 acres, BUT yet they think a critter that is with in a fence that holds thousands of acres is cheating!!
Kind of like "if you don't use my type of equipment, I'm better than you"!! So if you huntwith-in a fence, no matter the acreage,my deer kill is better than yours!! You guys crack me up!!;)
Disclaimer, Ihave never hunted with-in a high fenceenclosure, BUT if I could afford to go to Africa, or if someone wanted to "donate" a hunt on a high fence ranch in TX., I would!!

RE: High Fence considered cheating??