Traveled 9 miles straight line or nine miles back and forth...................... not hard to travel nine miles on 1400 acres

You would say that if you owned 2500 in east tx:)

Dang y'all argue in circles. If there is no real need to trap the deer, why spend the $$$ to build the damn thing?

Deer don't migrate like caribou. But they do travel.

They either 1)serve their intended purpose of trapping deer or 2) there are a bunch of stupid people building them.

IMO HF guys won't pick a horse and ride it because they are both glue-factory nags.

I don't own that much here, but do in panhandle. HF sucks

Oh then all hf are not canned.......

That much in east texas probably equals 20k in the panhandle

I think NP has the argument nailed down. High fences are built to trap deer in a certain area. If not please explain to my feeble brain what their intended purpose is.

One way as the bird flys from food to bedding area and was during rut. Amazed me but thought it was really cool.

To keep crap genetic out and grow a better deer heard, alot of the HF places I hunt sell hunts and guide on including my own have had all native deer either pushed out or shot out to prevent the unwanted gentics out. Also alot of HF places are exotics and thats what ours is we have not one WT on the place period so this topic has nothing to do with us technically speaking.

if one was to buy a small pasture and value it only for it's deer movement one would not be very brite. The most valuable land has no deer movement what so ever.

sounds like cattle

would it make a difference if they had them to their heart's desire a few miles away? Even the pets leave and drop down to the river bottom when they start dropping.

So, you are trapping the deer that carry your desired genes in a confined area?

Well, I see you switched to the "HF doesn't work so the people who build them are stupid" nag now....

Hmmm, we've built HF's to keep deer out of our fields. See not all are to keep deer in, in fact I believe HF's were orginally built to keep deer out of the crops. Hows that an answer for you?

go back to page 1.

hunting lands only value is hunting if you dont have mineral rights what value would thorny brush infested land be worth in the middle of BFE

They are trying to slow down dispersal into their ranch...thus keeping more deer from coming in and making it harder to stay under CC. More or less...

Or its a smaller place and they dont have the acreage the same large acreage do so they want to try to do the same as the large acreage ranches do with less land again slow down dispersal in or out...keeping their genetic s and yours out.

No buying what we want and then keeping a investment together instead of letting some joe shoot a deer you have payed 5K for and fed for the last 3 years for nothing. Its alot like insurance like previously posted IMO. Takes $$$ to grow big deer period and if its my $ I dont want you shooting it for nothing.

One more, I built a HF to keep the deer out of my neighbors 12 acres. When someone kills 7 deer on 12 acres then I have to protect MY deer, the state has never done a thing to help them live. In fact if they want them they need to reimburse me $25,000 for the well, waterlines, troughs and storage tanks.

I find it funny that some complain that the HF has blocked the movement of deer that they could shoot. Now that a fence is put up, arent you now hunting deer that the HF guy can't shoot because of the fence?

Concur with curt.... no ranch in texas can make its land payments off hunting. Alone at todays land prices

LOL i like this one, hell if thats the case can I come next door and hunt since its not fair that the HF is there or better yet shoot over or through the fence since those are our deer LOL

But u Nogalus u didn't say whether u hunted in a blind and over a feeder just like HF guys? So now a buck is only worth a flip if he makes it in a record book. WOW if that isn't contradictory. pretty shallow like the evil HF hunters that shoot deer point blank with a rim fire in the face when they rattle the coffee can.

I know I personally view a low fence trophy entirely different than a paid for high fence trophy.