Ok guys keep it interesting, im going to cook some big arse T bones and eat dinner, yeah im at work tonight so ill be back to catch up shortly.

Keeping thinking about it and get back to me in the morning.... You can figure it out if you think real hard

If I had a HF and it was 50 yards off the property, I would line the outside with stands and feeders and offer LF hunting

Then I could be the greedy HF rancher and I could be "that" neighbor that shoots everyone else's deer.

Wonder if the neighbor would then HF his place? If so, it would have to be 50 yards also and there wouldn't be any LF place...just a 100 yard plot. Now that would be shooting fish in a barrel

Who is supposed to be thinking and what are we thinking about?

The 100 yards would be hf too

Suppose to be 50yards typo on my part.

If you were my neighbor I'd probably give you a key to the gate.... I couldnt keep your east TX butt from hunting it anyways... Be easier on my fences to just let you in through the gate...
Plus you got good taste in whisky and I know you will share

I like your entrepeneurial skills, but now we're back to the maze scenario and all the deer would starve.

That would be the perfect cattle pasture

Exactly!!!

ummmm.... Im so lost after reading every post on this thread...I cant even remember what kind of fence my place has.

No no...haven't you read the other threads. Just give them protein and you are good

I am going to guess it is a crooked one

A few of my personal experiences include buying 11 acres and being HF'ed on 3 sides. North and west sides earlier this year. This will negatively affect deer movement. New neighbor has not had the juevos to come and talk to me.

Both my sons shot their first deer on this place. We never abused nor overkilled Planted foodplots and feed year round. In this case, my opinion on HF is not good.

On the other hand, I have another place that is bigger but I am surrounded by MANY hunters, guessing around 20 or so hunting 600 acres around me. They have a camp with a full size trailer house set up literally 1 foot off of a perimeter fence. I can see value in HF when considering this case.

I have had an opportunity to hunt HF twice and have killed a 203" and 176" deer on these hunts and honestly can say my heart rate did not increase a bit. When hunting LF I nearly stroke out when a doe comes out.

IMO the big winner on the HF issue is the folks who make and install the fence.

Chico, according to some on here, you should count it as a blessing that someone else HF'ed your place

And it doesn't stop the deer...you must remember that

5m from that base camp, not Houston

True. Otherwise I open a mobile home park next door with free rent for East Texas "survivalists". Trust me....they can't be caught.

Oh good. So you still get to hunt from Houston to there

Yes...I usually slow my roll once I hit Polk Co

SCORE!!!! Like hitting the lotto. Now all you need to do is go buy a $100k breeder buck and start your own herd.

A $10k reject would be just as good.

Are the LF guys winning yet?

I don't know. I got lost back when we had the 50 yard buffer. Never did figure out which way the buffer ran. Dang Crown.

Nope. It would just jump out.

Now wait a minute...just had a thought

If HF are there to keep deer out, but don't keep deer in, how does this scenario work? They HF Chico's deer out. Now he puts a buck in. Will the fence keep his deer out of their place or their deer out of his place? If it won't keep deer in, will his deer jump out or will their deer jump in? If they go either way, the fence did not serve its purpose...my guess is they would stay put

Yeah - right-