Sadly I would not be surprised if there is a day in this country where most hunting is done inside a fence. Hopefully I'm not around to see that day.

That your choice to see things any way you want but the a average Joe is getting sick of spending thousands every year and seeing no deer. Look at all the states that have no deer numbers and even closed down some seasons. Yup high fence is here to stay! As it should! People like to have a choice to hunt mature healthy deer in a safe area!

Gonna have to disagree with you. Very few hunters actually need or want your services.

Lazy, inexperienced braggarts with money are the only ones that shoot in those places. I'm not totally against deer farms. I AM totally against shooting pens. Deer farms provide restaurants with whitetail, elk and other deer meat products just the same as beef. And that is fine and dandy. Domesticated on the hoof products. Calling yourself a hunter when you go into a small 200 acres or even a 100 acres enclosure to pop a humanized deer that was pen raised for the bone on it's head is ludicrous at best. Paying someone 10k+ for that is someone with absolutely more money than brains.

Again!! Your Choice! You don't think people hunt at these places? How do they stay in the bizz? How can it be that you can go to some states in the month of December and not find an antlered buck for sale from any farm? Because they are sold out!!!! Ranches can't keep enough bucks in their ranches to supply the demand! Why do you think there are so many deer farms and high fence being the fastest growing industry in the country? You must be wearing blinders? You ever get any hunting info from the state of Pa or Minn hunters! Their DNR's have about killed their hunting with to many tags on top of EHD and Wolves! The list goes on. Illinois will be the next disaster in the next year or two! Ohio? Take a listen to some of those hunters? Now states with CWD.... No deer population problems with all the deer and tags they can handle. It's not hard to find this info if you just listen! There is not a state in the country that has high fence that are not just as busy as they can be! Supply and demand runs a business. Ya don't see those numbers going backwards do ya? I myself have watched nay-Sayers walk out of 1200 acre enclosers many a times empty handed. I am sure many ranch owners could say the same about their operation! Ya never did it then ya have no clue. Just more speculation. Seems there is plenty of that around here!

A lot of people are so out of touch with reality even that brings them closer.

Big difference between a 1200 acre enclosure and a 100-200 acre enclosure. With a couple of exceptions, I don't consider a 1000 acre enclosure to be a "canned" hunt. Those exceptions being over populated and hand fed humanized animals. As long as the place has adequate cover, food, water and room for escape then more power to them. I've been tempted more than a few times to hit a couple places in Texas for some exotics for the meat. I'm a meat hunter not a bone/horn collector anymore. But I have heard that some of the African breeds such as the Orix (spelling not sure of) is some of the best meat that will ever pass your lips. Can't bring home the meat from Africa so I don't go. But those big ranches down in Texas I could. Just never pulled the trigger on doing it. I normally get Elk, Moose, Caribou, Whitetail in the freezer most every year and even add some Bison to it occasionally. Not to mention the hundreds of hogs I typically kill every year (except this one, dang gravity!) so I don't NEED the meat. Still doesn't mean I don't WANT it :)

Little canned operations such as yours BigTime1 or WildOutdoorsWhtl or whoever you are are what gives hunters black eyes in the eyes of the anti's. You have nothing I or any HUNTER wants. You just have lazy clients that are either too lazy or too ignorant to get out and actually HUNT for a trophy whitetail.

I would think if Bigtime is proud of his operation he would identify the name and state it is located in.

I question the "smarts" of allowing deer farms anywhere, as the risks associated with the given realities of CWD, and the poor track records of high fence deer farmers is well documented! It is also well documented that CWD got into Canada via Elk, from Elk farms in the US.

Nah gjersy, that can't be true, Bigtime says CWD was caused by people injecting animals and if the owner of a captive animal operation say so in order protect his business, a business that he will not idenfity, and to protect other captive deer operations, why it must be true. All the biologists and scientists are wrong because Bigtime says so.