if we all agreed how fun would the internet be?

and heck no the state dont have a problem with them, they get to shoot deer with forked antlers and kickers everywhere cuz of them.

Really? Another one of these?

Deer are the property of the people of Texas. The state is charged with managing them.

Since the majority of the members of the TPWD Commission are HF guys themselves (appointed by the HF guy pictured above) the law is,uhh,"interpreted" in favor of the HF guys.

Sneaky....you realize this isn't the only state that hunts deer, has private property and people grow agriculture or do nothing with their land. But this is the ONE state that has made it a common occurrence to throw the big fences up, lock neighboring land owners off, and control where the deer do and don't go for one reason and one reason only.....to grow trophy deer for themselves. Its just not natural man, its a way to throw your weight around with money and get what you want no matter the price. I haven't even mentioned the other thing that drives me nuts about high fence hunting.....the type of people that actually pay to hunt on these ranches....thinking I'll not even go there tonight!...grin

Love that sig pic MS.

If we didn't put up fences we would have no assurance as the outcome and levels of our deer herds due to neighbors. I can tell you that I personally won't shoot an 8pt or better buck unless he's mature or needs to be culled. Joe Blow on the other hand will shoot any 8 point to walk in front of him regardless. There will never be a day when HF and LF people are on the same page. But I'd bet the farm that 9 out of 10 HF ranches have better and healthier deer because most HF ranches treat their animals like children, and they are well cared for. Heck, look at a lot of the antler restrictions through out the state...gee I wonder why those came about???? If you don't know I'll clue you in and it's main focus point was to let bucks reach as close as maturity as possible. In a perfect world there would be no fences and we would all have to find something else to moan about...but it's not and it's not going to change just like HF ranching.

Man, I don't know what I'd do out here with all this down time if that happened.

And I thank God that I was born and raised in a state that gives so much consideration to landowner's rights.

Hey, I don't expect anyone to like high fences. I just expect people to respect other's rights.

At least our governor hunts unlike some of those other liberal va jay jays!

Considering the flourishing herd of whitetails in this state, I'd say they're doing a pretty fine job of managing them.

Man its just a hunting forum, I'm throwing my opinion out there just like everyone else. Lord knows we aint moving mountains or oceans on here, just an exchange of opinions. I gave mine, and you gave yours and that's where it ends. Its all good. I'll be happy to take another 110" 3.5 yr old 8 pointer next year and my son will put the smackdown on a doe or cull 6 and $3,000 later it kind of seems worth it!....grin

I never have but if I were at a ranch hunting and that deer walked out and they said go ahead shoot him then I prolly would it just wouldn't be the trophy that a free range 150 is to me.

haha, but is it hunting if its behind a HF from a 14ft tower stand 200 yards away?


i kid! i kid!

Yeah but the Alaska Governor was a hunter too , and she was much easier on the eyes than ole Rick is!

What if 10k acre hf I am not saying it would be that impressive as a trophy but still beautiful mount now I agree if it was in a pen and you just drove up and shot it prolly not.

2nd that

LMAO! this is true. Don't think many would kick her out of the....well anything!

I feel like I might have moved a mole hill, and those are easily made into mountains.

It's funny....that's about what I spent and that's almost exactly what my boy and I shot.

Well if you consider alot of manipulated bigguns penned up behind HFs a "flourishing herd" I guess so then....

I would shoot that deer in any sized pen. I would eat the meat and sell the antlers. Wouldn't feel bad about that at all.

The herd flourishes on both sides, amigo.

Penned deer are like athletes using pep. Just cheating in my eyes.

Cheating what? Is hunting a competition?

cheating yourself and/or the animal, if nothing else.