Great deer! Even better smile!

OK how about more pics and less debate. All low fence, some dead, some alive and all but one from my current place.

Very wide 8 with two drops


179 typical 11


155 14 points


160+ never taken (at least on my place


14 point freak


151


160


148


132


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Amos, you the man. Awesome deer !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All of these deer are East Texas Deer that score from 120"-147"








All bucks were taken from Angelina County, Nacogdoches County and Shelby County.

Man I'm 60 years old and been hunting for the better part of them and I can still get "Buck Fever" looking at some of the brute's in this thread.

My wife's first deer!



Low fence on 160 acres, Parker County.

not a bad start!

Low Fence - Foard County. No idea what he would score - never tried to score a deer.

not bad at all , neither one of them....

Unbelievable deer!

What a bruiser!

X2

That's a heck of an 8pt. Congrats

My first buck was a small 4 point. I think you may have ruined her starting with a deer like that.

very nice buck!!!! does your wife have a twin?

Nope. She has a sister 6 years younger.

just curious, she looks almost identical to this girl named Ashley I know that's 28-29ish.

This deer came off our place in Palo Pinto county. I killed it 2 seasons ago during the rut.

http://i850.photobucket.com/albums/ab61/cncoutdoors/Oct-December20172C202008200071.jpg?t=1283214279

It is very obvious by your post that you've not had much, if any experience hunting 'true' high fenced ranches! Sorry, but even on 1,000 acres of fenced country you will not know every deer like your dogs in the backyard, especially if the place is thick! Furthermore, I know of several ranches that are 4,000 acres plus where they know their deer every bit as good as the high fenced places I know. Some of these low fenced operations have more deer per acre then the HF ones do as well as a higher buck to doe ratio. I know of 3 different low fenced places that I can take you on a 2 hour hunt and you would have opportunity at multiple 160"+ bucks in one sitting so is that still more challenging then hunting in a HF 1,000 acre place in your mind? I also know where a 180" deer walks into camp and eats within 50 yards of people drinking beer on the veranda! All I'm trying to say is do not group HF hunting into one pile and LF hunting into another because there are completely different situations for each one!!!

ILBB:

Well said. I wish the moderators could program the site so that your post would automatically be the second post to any new thread that has "High Fence" in the title.

To lump all high fence ranches together in one group and all LF ranches together in another, makes about much sense as saying all tall women are ugly and all short women are beautiful.

High fences are simply one tool that can be used to manage property. Like other tools, they can be used or misused.

Absolute great post! Everybody who likes to talk down on HF places needs to read this and if they don't understand it, read it again and again until they do!

I love hunting, whether it is HF or LF, it doesn't matter. If I can choose, I'll choose the ranch with the best management program and the best bucks and whether it has an 8' GP fence or a 5 strand barbed wire fence doesn't matter one bit to me!

Exactly right!

Hell of a first deer, congrats to both of you. Them TSU girls can shoot!!

Had the pleasure of being able to pass on this deer as a 3.5 year old, my cuz got him 2 years later

think I would have shot that one. You remember how much that thing weighed?

he was a hell of an 8 at 3.5.. But glad we let him go.

I think dressed he was 190 or 200. can't remeber.

cuz got him the day before i was up there out of my tree..LMAO.
I can't complain though cause 3 days later i missed a good 150'class 8