Yeah, you are right in a way. Maybe the title of my thread should have been, "Why Do People Create High Fences?"
That, in itself is what makes me sick, and all I really "care" about. I just believe it is wrong to fence in a perfectly healthy deer, elk, or other wild game. jmho Then to kill said animal inside the fence, well, I guess that just fuels my sickness.

I would love to get me one of those bulls Will. Maybe one day.

Jeff. Hey, how you doing old buddy old pal? Still using the old ignorant,...er, uh, I mean ignore button I see.

LT

Jeffy, you been tested since you did that?[8D]

I hunted hogs in a high fense once. It was not easy to kill the hogs, we had 1200 acres fensed off and the hogs had seen a lot of hunting pressure. It was so difficult in fact that only 1 out of the 4 of us that went took a hog. With that being said, this place had deer as well as exotics. I walked up (not stalked) within bow range of several record book deer and could have killed any of them if I wanted to. Why did we go to this place? We were looking for trip out-of-state at the end of our deer season, something to do and with no other game in season, we had little choice but hog. It was fun, but a few of the guys shot some of the exotics, but watching the way that went down was not very appealing to me. We still go a hog hunt every year to wrap up our hunting season, but now we go down to Texas and chase free ranging hogs.

Bythe age of eight I knew it was bothwrong and unnecessary to kill an animal in a pen.
I guess it just takes some a little longer to figurethat out.

Your opinion ..... everything is relative ...... people have opinions about you, Jimbo ....... do you always want them expressing them for the sole purpose of making themselves look better?

BTW .... my opinion of you is one of a teddy bear that's trying to keep the tough guy image ..... I'm just sayin' ..........

Yes Jim back in the 1920's things were differnet

PT, is everything thats perfectly legal look good in your eye's or on everyone elses eyes that see high fence hunting as being ok?

Steve, ........huhI don't understand your post

Although I have never hunted within a fence, I do plan on doing so for Buffalo with my longbow at some point. We are talking thousands of acres. Why has nothing to do with the choices mentioned. It's more of an inner want I guess. Getting a free range tag would sure be nice, but it is nearly impossible.

Did you watch the Jimmy Houston video?[:@]
I've lived in Texas and watched how "hunting " was done. [:'(]
In both cases we as "hunters" are put in a very compromising situation.
I do not have to experience leprosy to realize pieces of decaying flesh is not good for me. Neither is the need to experience the slaughter of a domesticated deer for me to "get it".
The hardest part for me to over look is the why would you pay to kill some thing that roams freely in almost every state?
If you want to shoot stuff inside of a fence why not giraffes or zebras or any other animal that is not readily available on the out side of the fence?