High Fence hunting

[TX-RAT]

Seems to be the rage in TX. Buy a ranch, put up a 8ft fence and call it deer hunting. I personally despise the practice. I think were going to have a severe decease problem before this ends. They call it game management, I call it shooting deer in a pen.
Is this happening in your area? What is your opinion?

[ceile]

1. In some areas...

In some areas around Austin they're trying to move the deer populations because they are taking over. You can't hunt them (not that I would) and the stupid people feed them and then wonder why they can't get rid of them. I've never heard of the "high fence". Where is that occurring?

[TX-RAT]

2. All over TX

In our area alone there are 9, totaling 110 sections. Go to Austin often, they do have a real problem. You are right, everybody feeds them until they become a problem. Thats what happen when you create a artificial environment. On 71 going west theres theres at lest 3 within 12 miles of Austin.

[FatSlob]

4. Interesting. Kind of weird.

Amazingly, though, I've seen deer jump an 8 foot fence. I even once saw a STEER jump a seven foot fence. I was at my grandfather's place in Illinois. It is up the hill from the Mississippi. Down at the bottom of the hill, about 1 mile, is a stockyard. A steer escaped and made its way up the hill through the greenbelt. A seven foot fence is the boundary between Grandpa's yard and the greenbelt. I'm sitting in his glass sunroom, and see this steer come up to the fence. It literally jumped the damn fence, went through Grandpa's yard, and trotted down 26th Avenue.

[TX-RAT]

6. I feel for your Grandfather

Last year one of my bulls crossed 3 ranches before i could get him penned.Guess he thought the grass was greener.

[FatSlob]

7. Damn, he was a traveler.

How'd you catch him?

[TX-RAT]

8. Followed the trail of complaints.

He's a 2200lb Brangus, he left a trail destruction for 9 miles. Had to pick up the vet bills of 2 young Hereford bulls he meet on the way.

[sybylla]

3. Illegal in Wisconsin I believe

except for a few very large state owned preserves where special licenses are given to reduce overcrowding. It would be dangerously close to canned hunts which are banned here.

Last I knew the only hunting we can do inside a fence is for gamebirds.

[TX-RAT]

5. I consider them the same as canned hunts.

[Paladin]

9. I Gave It Up Years Ago

Not only does standard Texas deer "hunting" feature tall fences, there are also the electric feeders which loudly spew out corn in the morning and evening, bringing herds of hungry deer in for potential slaughter. Really sporting.....

[MrSandman]

10. Game management...

Of captive animals?

[Columbia]

11. Kinda boring

But how much more different than leading cows to a slaughterhouse?

[Something Blue]

12. I object

to this practice in the strongest possible terms. It is exactly as you describe - shooting deer in a pen.

Beyond being reprehensible on it's face, how could anyone participate in such a farce and call himeself a hunter? How punk-ass can you get, shooting an animal that cannot evade you?

Hunting is about so much more than just the kill. It's understanding where you are and what you're hunting, scouting, tracking, stalking. If I don't find any game that just means I wasn't a good enough hunter that day. Tough shit. Learn more and try again another day. Shooting at released birds or penned deer is lower than wormshit. I spit on this practice.