I have never shot a deer in high fence, been in plenty, they can say what they want but I assure you it ain't like hunting free range deer regardless of size of rNch been inside 100 acres to 10,000 acres and if u put in time you kind find the one you are looking for they aren't going anywhere.

I have never shot a deer in high fence, been in plenty, they can say what they want but I assure you it ain't like hunting free range deer regardless of size of rNch been inside 100 acres to 10,000 acres and if u put in time you kind find the one you are looking for they aren't going anywhere.

There was a buck on my buddy's HF place that had incredible mass at age 3. They were all really excited to see what he turned into, but they never saw him as a 4 or 5-yr old. Figured he'd been killed. Didn't hit feeders, protein, never caught on camera or seen alive.

Showed back up at 7 and they killed him at 194.

Don't tell me they can't hide just because it's high-fenced. There was also a tagged buck that they wanted killed because he didn't meet his potential. About 12 of us hunted him all season and he was seen once for about 2 seconds and never killed. As in, no one ever harvested him. Must have died of natural causes, because he evaded the full-time, live-in manager for years.

ive hunted as little as a 100 acre high fence that had at least 200 animals on it. This was a doe hunt with bow for meat. 75 bucks for a doe I couldnt pas it up for some meat,
Ive hunted 1000 acre heavily managed and 10,000 acre managed.
Theres a difference, a 5000 acre HF ranch that heavily manages with food plots and protein is raisng cattle and these deer should be taken to show not shot. A 500 acre ranch that manages without any introduction of food or protein would be more like free ranging deer that just given age to grow.
But of course totally fee range deer are truely the trophy,s.
Back in the day a big buck killed was truely a trophy as it managed to evade hunters predators etc. and a hunter who killed it could be proud. Now we raise them like cattle and shoot them and gloat about it, sorry it aint the same.

I have hunted both and it doesn't matter to me one way or another. If given the choice of hunting a well managed 2,000 acre lf ranch vs a 2,000 acre no-managed hf ranch, I'll go to the lf ranch. Bottom line is that I like to watch big, mature bucks in a herd that has a balanced age structure and sex ratio and couldn't care less what the fence looks like around it!

Here's a question for the B & C Club. What if brother A and brother B both inherit 5,000 acres each of a 10,000 acre ranch and the 10,000 was high-fenced. Now, each has a border fence to his other brother's 5,000 acre ranch that is a 5 strand barbed wire fence and it equals 1/4 of the perimeter of each ranch, are the deer they harvest now allowed into the book where before when the came off the original 10,000 were not????

a 5000 acre HF ranch that heavily manages with food plots and protein is raisng cattle and these deer should be taken to show not shot. .

Speaking of the 300+ buck, how does the owner know the genetics are native Texas? Did he stock the place with breeder deer? If not, how does he know that imported stock didn't wander over from a neighbor's place before he high fenced his place?

Speaking of the 300+ buck, how does the owner know the genetics are native Texas? Did he stock the place with breeder deer? If not, how does he know that imported stock didn't wander over from a neighbor's place before he high fenced his place?

wow.

so basically, it's not the fence that matters, it's whether or not food is being provided for the deer?

yeah, nothing like a food plot to COMPLETLEY change the game. I mean.... how can you change your odds on shooting a deer faster, than by planting some oats, which the deer can access 24 hours a day... any given time?

I can't believe people think free choice protein feeders and food plots are more "unfair" than a friggen timed corn feeder.