Looking pretty good but I don't get to golf much. I figure the wife will go ahead a kill me if I add golf to the hunting and fishing.

Neither will ever go and neither should

I don't like HFs but that's just a preference. Landowners should be allowed to put whatever kind of fence they want up. It's not my land so it's not my problem. I personally find more satisfaction taking free range deer over a HF deer. That's just me though. More power to those making money off of HF deer and more power to those who like to pay to shoot them.

The Midwest hunters who think a corn feeder is wrong but planting a food plot isn't are ignorant. You are going to tell me it's ok to plant 30 acres of corn to attract deer but I'm not a real hunter because I hunt a corn feeder? I don't get that logic.

Texas won't outlaw baiting, they will just tax it. Alabama doesn't allow baiting, but is considering a change to allow it. Comes with a $50 permit for each feeder used during hunting season.

Neither will ever go and neither should

I don't like HFs but that's just a preference. Landowners should be allowed to put whatever kind of fence they want up. It's not my land so it's not my problem. I personally find more satisfaction taking free range deer over a HF deer. That's just me though. More power to those making money off of HF deer and more power to those who like to pay to shoot them.

The Midwest hunters who think a corn feeder is wrong but planting a food plot isn't are ignorant. You are going to tell me it's ok to plant 30 acres of corn to attract deer but I'm not a real hunter because I hunt a corn feeder? I don't get that logic.

Never say never. America and Texas are becoming much more liberal. Most of our politicians are moderate whores with a very few real Conservatives. Look at what has happened in the last 6 years in Washington DC. Who would have ever thought that this stuff could happen?

Land usages have changed and will continue to change. More people are watching spectator sports instead of getting outdoors. Due to the cost, hunting is getting too expensive for the average family guy. Thus, we are not recruiting enough of the kids and teens.

The state of our national parks is a disgrace.

Look at the uproar over killing a lion in a country where kids starve to death on a daily basis.

While the NRA is still a powerful lobby, I'll bet that less than 50% of the posters here are members. I might be wrong about that. And, even fewer land owners. Let the other guy carry the load.

As the Bard once sang, "The times they are achanging". And, I believe that we will sleep through this like we have other things that we are seeing happen every day.

While the NRA is still a powerful lobby, I'll bet that less than 50% of the posters here are members. I might be wrong about that. And, even fewer land owners. Let the other guy carry the load.

As the Bard once sang, "The times they are achanging". And, I believe that we will sleep through this like we have other things that we are seeing happen every day.

Neither will be banned.

There were and are places in Texas that the only food source for the deer are what ever feeders are on private property. 2012 was a prime example. TPW has bigger things to worry about than if a guy has a feeder on his property. No way they would ever find the majority of them anyway. Also in 2012 they made suppressors legal for game animals, and at some point made heli-hunting hogs legal for non-land owners. All I have seen lately is rules getting relaxed instead of more strict.

If your land is not in an HOA or inside city limits no one is going to tell you what fence you can or can't have.

IMHO.

By all means call me stupid and my opinion isn't a well educated one as I'm still reading and learning hunting rules here compared to England... But why would they ban either? Already you have licensing in place and limit restrictions to manage the taking of all species, so what is the benefit of restricting even more. Same with food plots for duck... No baiting? Why when you can only take 6 a day, what's wrong with feeding them in? It's beneficial in the sense you will likely shoot a limit, but if you did your homework and fieldcraft that's likely too. Feeding anything in to a managed habitat is beneficial to both hunter and game. No one would do if otherwise.


Habitat, wildlife management and supplemental feeding done by hunters and ranches is beneficial and far exceeds what they harvest doesn't it? That's why limits are in place, to ensure a sustainable population.

All that said, I don't know what I'm talking about, my Game and Estate management degre doesn't translate to anything over here

How bout twenty years from now? Id say there will be twice as many high fences if not more. I bet we all will have to wear blaze orange no matter what. If you can still buy ammo then you will probably have to have a gun card to buy ammo like Illinois' laws already have. Our long hunting season will probably get chopped up like many northern states. They may ban center fire rifles for hunting like Illinois. We will be lucky to even still have the right to bare arms. An over populated country, over commercialized hunting community, and liberals will make hunting seem like a bunch of well I just don't know. Oh ya those hogs will probably be a state game species that you have to buy a tag to hunt. High fences will probably be the new norm and the only way to hunt in the future in a sense that its the only safe way, kinda like more organized, and easier for the government to monitor, and safer. Hey his is just my night mare don't worry too much.

Texas is past the point of no return, so no probably not. What did the Drury boys say about what happens when they hunt Texas. They get hammered by the northerners every time they come down to hunt Texas, and even north Texas. That says a lot.