Well, at my high fence waterfowl hunting preserve, you can swim underwater and shoot them with a speargun as long as your check clears.[8D]

And you can bring your kid with his pellet gun since I will have a few "exotics" (peacocks) that junior can plug for an extra 100 bucks.[&:]

Lanse, I truly enjoy your posting's....

As for the question that was proposed, I voted leave it as it is... I am not a fan of hunting a high fence either and I agree with everything you have said for the most part, zrex.... I too have been hunting Texas all my life and these high fence operations are popping up everywhere and they are turning hunting into "business", It is turning out that these operations are driving the cost up to hunt, that aggravates the mess out of me...... The reason I voted the way I did, is because I feel the government has too much control over us as it is... If they start intervening on our property such as high fences, I feel they will not stop there!!!! I have some acreage and I dang sure don't want the government controlling what I work very hard for....

A year or so I was discussing high fenced operations withtwo of my neighbors in Illinois. As a way of screwing with them, Isaid that we could easily live to see the day where most of the deer in Illinois end up behind such fences. One person said if that happens then bolt cutters would be the standard piece of equipment in his truck. The other guy'svery serious response was that if it reaches that point, then he would simply devote his time to driving around and shooting every deer he sees behind the fences. I'm notrepeating the story to indicate support for behavior like that, but rather to indicate the mindsets that some folks can develop when they seewhat is supposed to be a public resource being controlled for the benefit of a few people.

I don't know how it works in other states but here in Texas, game animals belong to the state of Texas ie. the people. We pay for the right to harvest our animals (hunting licenses). Now this is where things get heated. If a land owner wants to high fence his/her property and manage their herd then get after it...BUT my problem is that the deer that are now in escence "captured" and are no longer free ranging animlas for the rest of us low fence guys. If these folks want to "herd" the wild deer or capture/tranquilize them and move them out of their high fence ranch I have no problem with it. Then they can stock their ranch with breed dear. I dont feel the high fence guys have the right to enclose "our deer". Just my thought...For what its worth. Usually a hill of beans! LOL

ps. If you are high fencing for exotics, then please please please high fence! Here in south texas we have enough non indigenous large game animals roming around (makes for good hunting) but they compete directly with our whitetails...

Bulchit...."Breeders" are money grubbing wannabe's. Its about getting some schmuck to come out and spend a few grand, shoot a buck, then post it on this site and brag about how his walmart short mag came in handy while he was sitting in a porta-potty tree stand texting his wife. You aint "advancing" wildlife, you are trying to domesticate it. Next comes deer farms that are raising fat free steaks that "Desperate Housewives" types, yapping on their damn cell phones, driving a SUV thats never been off road fight in the grocery line to pay $8.00 a pound for.....

Once you start calling yourself a breeder, you can call the deer "livestock". To hell with hunting them at that point. Next they'll have the great idea to add a few more hormones to the feed..........here we go again.


It should be illegal to fence wildlife..Unless you want to pay my state taxes..you own the dirt, the air, and whats under the dirt...

You DON'T own what walks across it.

I voted outlaw the high fences...

that did not happen in wis. i talked to a warden during this past rifle season. he handed me his card and toldme if i shoot a tagged deer don't touch it. call him immediately and he'll come out and tag it for me. he said once the deer get out of the fence they are fair game. it is the deer farmers responsabilty to keep them contained.

What about all those "catfish ponds" that charge by the pound for the catch? Are you also against them?

They have "captive" game animals? They charge for someone to come onto their property to take the "state's natural resource" are you guys after those as well?

I've never paid to play at a fish pond either.I dont think that any record breaker taken from one of those places would be taken seriously. Apart from that, call me crazy, but i find some significant difference between catching a catfish in a pond and shooting a deer in a 80 acre enclosure. And i think that in all instances of pay ponds, you are cathching fish that the owner purchased. In many instances of high fences they are confining a true natural resource.

I went with the second option. While I wouldn't use a small-high fence setup for hunting, I have no right to tell those willing to pay for it that they cannot, nor do I have the right to keep someone from providing the service and making a living doing it. I think what someone does with their private property is their business. I wouldn't hang out at a nudist camp either, but there's plenty of those around and no one complains.