Your Thoughts on High Fenced Hunting
03-01-2007, 10:53 PM
#11
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: NW Montana / SW Alberta Rockies
Posts: 3,258
RE: Your Thoughts on High Fenced Hunting
ORIGINAL: AnnaMarie
Here's a question that is so prevalent in Texas.....Do you agree with high-fenced hunting? I love to hear people's responses and reasoning, so lets hear it..........
Here's a question that is so prevalent in Texas.....Do you agree with high-fenced hunting? I love to hear people's responses and reasoning, so lets hear it..........
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Bobby
03-01-2007, 10:55 PM
#12
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 96
RE: Your Thoughts on High Fenced Hunting
They have that with elk here in ID, but the state is trying to do away with it. One big elk "rancher" here had alot of elk escape and the governorcalled for them to be shot. Not to mix the "tamer" elk with the wild ones, due to fear of diseases.
I wouldn't hunt it, but has to be a lucrative business. The city slickers pay top dollar to be guaranteed an elk. Why ranch cattle when there is elk and a higher profit in it.
I wouldn't hunt it, but has to be a lucrative business. The city slickers pay top dollar to be guaranteed an elk. Why ranch cattle when there is elk and a higher profit in it.
03-02-2007, 05:01 AM
#15
Dominant Buck
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Ramsey , Indiana
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RE: Your Thoughts on High Fenced Hunting
Having participated in the debate about them in my state I took the time to examine the types of high fenced ranches being offered, both in my state and others, and the ones in Texas are generally huge compared to the "pic n' shoots" in Indiana. The largest one here was only slightly over 1,000 acres, with shooting pens no larger than 6-10 acres with limited cover and assistance from the ranch hands driving the game toward the shooters. To my mind this is simply slaughter, not hunting, and I have actively worked to help with their eradication since they are not in the least sporting and reflect badly on hunting. A ranch encompassing thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of acres with ample cover and escape friendly terrain is not what I would class as a "pic n' shoot" since the game has a sporting chance to escape. The high fence itself is irrelevant to me, the size of the shooting area and cover is far more relevant. I don't like the concept of such places in general though, and will never patronize one.
03-02-2007, 06:02 AM
#17
Join Date: Nov 2006
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RE: Your Thoughts on High Fenced Hunting
i have hunted the high fence places and like everybody has been saying it depends on how manyacreage they have fenced. i hunted one in Maine and it was pretty challenging but i am against the 10 acre pens.
03-02-2007, 07:07 AM
#20
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: san antonio,texas
Posts: 837
RE: Your Thoughts on High Fenced Hunting
as for the feeders if you hunted in south texas i would be sure all of yall northerners would use one on ur property and they are a great way to bring in hogs but i like that one input on here sayin high fences belong around a prison i dont care how big it is to me this is just slaughter dont even bother calling it hunting