The value placed on the deer....

HF for the win!!!!

SO... is the problem the big ranch or the little ranches?

The value placed on the deer....

Look at this skilled hunter, probably put in months of scouting and running trail cams...

So, what did you win?

Having the right to hunt and being able to argue about it, for the win

This chit is crazy! So lets see....we have High fences,put and take operations, breeder bucks being auctioned like cattle, none of the chit killed qualifies for the record books because either the animal is a genetic experiment or the fact that the petting zoo perimeter disqualifies it (high fence), and guys claiming that they wont shoot a buck unless its over 170, and you think this is perfectly normal when tied to the word hunting........geez

It would be a lot easier just to go up to Northern Kansas,Iowa, or Illinois and shoot a naturally grown big azz buck rather than concocting a Jurassic park in drought ridden, nutritionally lacking Texas and then feeling the need to justify and defend it to the "Haters"...... just saying....

Well the property wasn't square, you drove down the gravel road a long ways off the highway and it ended at his property, but the new high fence started between a 1/4 and 1/2 mile from his property line on the left side and the high fence went all the way in to his property and ran all the way around. Then on the back side on an angle he had a small piece that butted up to the Devils sinkhole state park, and the next year a nearby neighbor bought up a bunch of 100 ish acre pieces of land next to him on the right side of the property line and through up high fence for as far as the eye could see. He essentially had whatever walked down the gravel road along the high fences going in to his place and whatever he could draw across that 100 yard or so stretch that butted up to the sinkhole. This happened within 3 years of buying the land. He was a typical blue collar hard working guy without a lot of money but he loved hunting and even built a pretty sweet cabin out there himself that I helped him finish (sheet rock, mud and tape and paint).Dude I felt so bad for the guy this place was a dream come true that turned into a nightmare. He tried to talk tothe guys when they were putting the fence up about what it was doing to his property but the guys next door could give a phuck, they told him he should have bought more land!

Own all the land one wants and can buy but the high fences are an unnatural obstacle to me, a real negative game changer on so many levels. it screams GREEEEED!!

One should never have to fear that after buying a piece of wilderness property that he could potentially have all natural resources blocked from accessing or traveling through his land by his or her neighbors Texas version of the Berlin wall...there is nothing rational about having that happen to you. And I do have a friend that it happened to, and his property became useless. He was a hunter and could only afford 100 acres and it took many years for him to come up with the money to buy that piece of land, then the 1000+ acre neighboring ranches blocked him off because quote on quote...he was shooting their deer. Blows my mind that such an action is considered legal. I have more land than you do so the wild deer are mine???? Its insane, and exactly why I would never buy land down here that was intended for recreational purposes, cant imagine a more heartbreaking feeling than being a victim of that chit.

Neither....the problem is the Fence!

Look at this skilled hunter, probably put in months of scouting and running trail cams...

Ok...so let me get this straight..your said buddy busted his [censored] bought his land (kudos to him) then has his neighbors fence their property bc of him shooting "their" deer, so said buddy get's pissed off about it, calls his land useless bc "his" deer are now no longer on "his" property. TO me that makes no freaking sense. If someone wants to take entitlement of "their" deer then put up a fence and quit complaining about it...and even then they are still the states deer! I can assure you that caring for deer and animals behind a fence take a ton of work, time and money. Like it or not it's a source of income for most HF ranch owners.

Yup they had big ole fish nets and they pulled em behind UTV's, deer didn't have a chance.......C'mon Man!

Yup they had big ole fish nets and they pulled em behind UTV's, deer didn't have a chance.......C'mon Man!

It was given to him didn't cost the gov a penny so now anyone gonna say they wouldn't have shot it for free

It was given to him didn't cost the gov a penny so now anyone gonna say they wouldn't have shot it for free

haha

the thing is, they are not his deer or your deer or my deer, they are our deer. am i wrong? tell me i'm wrong. you dont want me to be right. but i'm right.

this isnt to you little alaskan buddy, i just enjoyed your post. keep it up.