I'm not an attorney but I would surmise that if the landowner put them on "hold" then he would be responsible should anything happen to them before a hearing. However he does have a cure through TPWD. I would also imagine that if a landowner has not tried this rememdy first his case would not likely hold up.

Depredation Permits
•Depredation Permit Application
•Texas Parks and Wildlife Code – Chapter 43, Subchapter H, Sections 43.151 – 43.158
•Texas Administrative Code – Depredation Permits – Sections 65.220 – 65.233

Page 3 now and I'm trying, I'm tryin - but I don't usually get on these topics!

Cuz killing a deer in texas is sooooooo hard.

Grasshopper have you hunted in brooks county or surrounding counties? Because the only way you will see a deer in a good portion of the county is to take a dozer cut a sendero it's that thick. U wouldn't be able to trek through some wimpy scrub brush or cedar motts like in bell county. Central tx is a whole different animal of hunting. And hunting over a food plot on a low fence or a feeder is the same dynamic as doing it in a high fence only difference as txhntr stated is allowing the flow of traffic. And please define what a good hunter is? Do you actually track a deer for miles on the 10k acres and shoot em at 600 yds as well?

Deperdation permits are a joke.....their like trying to attach a severed arm with a band aid

Seems to me when HF first started it was largely to keep excess deer OUT of the property so heard management could be truely managed. When a land owner was a good steward and made his property attractive it would over populate, thus the high fence came into play.

And for those "fish in a barrel" believers; I used to have access to 900 acres under HF, done exactly for the reasons above, native deer only, no canned hunts, and very wild deer, my friend lived on the property and managed it, I killed an 8 year old buck and a 6 year old buck in the thick brush by getting in there after them, scouting, tracking and stalking. My bud that lived there over 20 years had NEVER seen either of the deer I killed until I brought them in dead, ONLY 900 acres mind you.
And yes, he was in the field EVERY day, it ain't easy keeping a ranch from falling apart.

NOW, that said, i personally DO NOT like 'canned" hunts under HF, where trophy deer are stocked, killed off, restocked, rinse and repeat.

So, even I who am OK with HF, am not in all cases.

Ready the darts as I just put on my target!

We think closer to the same way than you think. I am just bored and this topic always make for a good discussion

Is this the normal type of HF or the exception...

Better quit that, can't be good for whats left of your mind

I’m going to sell LF bumper stickers…

“I feed deer my neighbor shoots”

“I bet my buck is smaller than your buck”

If Obama was a deer hunter, he would hunt HF.

Like my buddies ranch in brooks county is like that. This year we've seen 4-5 yr olds that we've never seen before. They don't have tags they are native and he spent 2 seasons sterilizing it. Depending on the topography and thickness of brush that can be normal.

Amen txhntr this topic makes for good discussion

I am afraid that today it is the exception, matters not as not all HF are the same, I do not see how you can lump every HF experiance together. There are the $ grubbers out there, it makes me ill, but the Old time ways/reasons for HF were to control a herd for the best heath of both land and wildlife. This I agree with personally.

I have stupidly booked two HF hunts recently thinking all were like the one I hunted for so many years, RUDE awakening and I was VERY, VERY disappointed in the hunts...because they were NOT hunts. But this does not make me a HF hater becuase I had many years of incredible education on deer behavior, learning to age deer, etc. because of the 900 HF place I was blessed with having access to. and again, those deer were WILD and wary.

He's like the kid hitting himself in the head with a hammer, cause it felt so good when he stopped!

Actually, he would be in favor of the LF hunter. Let the neighbor do all the work and let everyone else benefit from the fruits of his labor.

chuckle...then vomit..............

Point

Really skinner??? C'mon man don't even give that dude the label hunter because you "earn" the label or so how I was raised. FYI no I didn't have to stay out in 0 degree rain and track a deer across 10k acres and get him with a recurve but being a hunter in our family has very little to do with hunting it's about everything leading up to the bang. The sweat, blood, and time.

Which is easier and which takes more effort and time? LF or HF?

I was only funnin'......

This is my life....I OWN LF land, I put out 150# of protein a week Feb-Oct and nearly the same in corn....my place is small and I never have kiled a deer there...they roam, I accept that..but I will not kill a young deer there, period, when and old boy screws up he;ll be mine, until then I feed the crap out of them, enjoy the awesome game cam pictures and feel good knowing I do my part to help them be healty.

Same...dif is the cost of the fence.

The reward will be great when you finally get a good old buck

Disagree. Not the same