<font color=blue>I know that I am placing my head on the chopping block, but here goes !
I as a hunt preserve owner would like to share my opinion; to me a fair chase hunt requires enough woodland cover for the animal to easily avoid human contact, I don't consider large fenced in clear cuts as fair chase. In some cases it might take a thousand acres to give the animal enough cover and in some areas fifty acres of heavily forested land will do the job. The preserve should offer enough cover , that it is possible for the animal to avoid hunters each and every time he is pursued. Most people who object to preserve hunting, have never hunted one, and yet they are experts at condemning them, where did they get there expertise. A properly run preserve offers a hunt for those who have little time, no land to hunt on, or perhaps they have a physical limitation. Maybe they just want a nice trophy, bottom line is we do offer a real hunt , as a life time hunter I look to provide a real challenging hunt, and a facility that the animal can disappear within seconds ........Like I said , I just put my head on the chopping block, so chop away!
Respectfully, Mark Luce</font id=blue>

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my definition of fair chase is letting the animal have enough cover,not high fencing any area,not baiting with piles of corn or with feeders,etc.

slayer

&quot;Accurate,Deadly,Dependable&quot;

I am in my 2nd year of hunting but I have yet to take a big game animal. I have never really thought about your point-of-view on this subject. I think game preserves are a great thing. I have never hunted one myself, but it lets someone like yourself making a living running a business that you and many other enjoy. That is what a profession should be. Fun. Fair chase to me would be making the animal feel and act like its in its natural habitat. Carry on Mark. Do what you love.











plinker



" I hope this works." -Famous Last Words

Personally I would like to go to a ranch to go hunting. I would want to hunt white tail. But i would like to go to an elk ranch of a moose Ranch.


let em go let em grow

i would not hunt on a ranch. i dont think it would be considered hunting. but i can uderstand if disabled hunters because they deserve the chance at a trophy. well thats my 2 cents worth

I agree with mrfishy, i think the disabled hunters should have a chance to go and hunt on a ranch. I wouldent want to hunt on a ranch because it dosent even seem like hunting to me.

i agree with most of what burrmanmaine says.. i myself hunt on two hundred acres of solid forest and consider that a fair chase... now i might be putting my head on the block... but here goes.. i consider humans the ultimate preditor.. whether you hunt or just eat meat... think about it.. what other creature raises animals for food? just us! we also have the power to outsmart our prey... i think that any person given their knowledge and experience of their prey should hunt it to the best of their ability using their heads and other tools if necessary... i myself try to outsmart deer by getting a map of the area that i hunt and track them daily to figure out patterns, bedding areas, new food sources, where their water comes from and what time of day they leave for water.. a good preditor knows where their prey is at all times..