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If i had unlimited funds, i might be tempted to put up a fence. But it wouldnt be a 10 or 12 foot fence. You could put up a fence that it 5ft high, that would keep people out and a deer could easily clear a fence of that height.

RE: Who would do this...
 

I would also have to agree with a low fence. Something that the deer could jump. This fence would be well posted for neighbor to see without any excuse that they didn’t know where the property line would be.

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Yeah a people fence with plenty of trail cameras along the perimeter. But why dream such a foolinsh dream, I got enough trouble keepin my neighbors of my 30 acres now. [:@]

RE: Who would do this...
 

Theories and opinions fly wild and easily from the keyboard. But real life execution is MUCH harder. I know from experience as my family has a 10k acre place in southern MO and a 2500 acre place in west TN. We've hired "patrols", have full time farm hands that are on the land daily and for over a decade we even had a full time game biologist that prosecuted anyone we could catch (even used a neighbors helicopter one opening day, that was interesting). But in the end, RED NECKS are going to trespass just because they feel that because there is a law against it, they MUST trespass and poach. THEY are the reasons people put up high fences as much to keep the trash out as the trophies in.

The typical, law-abiding neighbor/citizen is worth their weight in gold. They can read a NO TRESPASS sign and will heed its warning. For others they read it "NO TRESPASSING, WE DARE YA!" Sometimes its so maddening I wish it was like parts of Africa where poachers and trespassers can be SHOT ON SIGHT!

It gets absolutely maddening [:@] to have your hunts interrupted by TRASH who wander aimlessly around and want to abuse private property and leach off of others hard work and investments, only to have them tell you, "Well I got lost. Or I shot a deer on ol so and so's place and it ran over here". Some on here said, "Just patrol the land". Well are you going to give up your own opening weekend on stand just to keep rednecks off of your land? Do you want such misfits wandering around with guns in the same woodlot as your own family? Take pictures? COME ON give me a freakin break. Who is gonna take the time and expense of using those cameras? And do you for one instant think that a redneck outlaw is gonna stand there smile for the camera? He will either remove the camera or simply blow it off the tree! You cant hide a camera, the flash will give it away. Infra-red you say? Well again, who is gonna pay for it? Telling the landowner to foot the bill for all this security is unfair and not reasonable.

As for the "public game" theory, who pays to feed and provide a safe environment for those animals? It sure isnt the public. You sure arent paying for the damage to crops that the deer are wreaking havoc on. Many generations ago the deer might have belonged too the public when they were first re-introduced and stocked, but imho the deer belong solely too the person whose land they are on today. By manys opinions you cold argue that the fish in a landowners pond are likewise "publicly owned"?

You're gonna spend over $100 per acre to fence most land with a gameproof enclosure. Thats a SIZEABLE investment that any law abiding landowner should be able to make without worry about some trashneck ruining it.

Sometimes you just have to see through others eyes before you can accurately speak of their actions,
RA

RE: Who would do this...
 

Not I. not worth it. you take the wild out of the animals. even if it were a hundred thousand acres, i can never justify putting in a high fence. unethical in my book. You dont OWN the deer. You pay for food plots because you decide to. you dont have to. those deer are NOT your deer. sure, we get ticked off because our neighbors dont believe in QDM. but we're not going to fly off the handle and high fence our land. its unnatural for the deer. High fencing should be banned

slayer

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I have to agree that now I would lean towards leaving a fence that the deer can jump but a newly installed fence to keep the tresspassers out. I know of a few people around here who tresspass and it bothers me greatly. I hunt on public land and a small amount of land my grandparents own, but there are still many people who think they can shoot anything on anyones land.

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What you're proposing would be illegal here ,
the state owns and manages the deer for everybody here . I wouldn't do it anyway , the poachers would just cut their way in .

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Red sounds to me like by your comments that YOU do need a HIGH fence just to keep the "TRASH" away from you CASTLE .... I know this is NOT the place for this but I live in Alabama ... suppose you could call me a "Redneck" but to associate that with "trash" is the same attitude that MIGHT be the reason these people do harrass you on your hunts ... NO one likes to be looked down on .... even from YOUR throne


ROLL TIDE!

RE: Who would do this...
 

Red, if you have that many acres mabe you could give some people permission. It would help keep some out if you let some in. Around hear huntin land is hard to come by, so working for it is well worth it. Just an idea, it may make it easier on you.

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My old lease was 6,000 acres and we ended up asking the land owner to high fence one mile of the perimeter to keep out poachers. The poachers have 15 people on 1,000 acres and would pay no attention to "posted" signs. It worked. we never again caught them "accidentally" roaming around on our ranch.