I would support it.

Although high fence hunting tactics in Texas are not much different than low fence hunting tactics in Texas

I bought a ranch some years back in Central Texas - was all LF.

We lived there and I decided to see how big I could grow some deer. Goal was not to sell hunts or breed - goal was to have friends and familiy a place to take a trophy buck.

So I high fenced the entire ranch - then proceeded to kill all of the native deer off of it. Took around a year and was not easy - deer get smart when they realize they are being hunted hard but we got the job done.

I then bought three two year old bucks from three different breeders and three does from three different breeders. Set up plenty of feed pens and fed protein and left the deer alone to breed.

We sold the place 4 years later and the herd was just taking off. My summary is this: it takes a lot of $$ to do this stuff with no income off of it. It takes tons of patience and work. It was fun as hell. Would do it again? in a second -

why stop at HF?

lets do guided & unguided, private land, public land, eco-logical zone only(Hill country cant compete with panahadle), ranch size, lease price per acre etc.

obviously to define how bad [censored] you really are…

I’m in. You go first Bobo.

C'mon Bobo, let's keep this in the real world...

I'd love to have the time and resources to do such a thing. That's awesome!

how is it not real world?

Ive seen it posted 1000x’s on not just WT’s but also mule deer, elk. How much did that cost? Guided or unguided?

Also why I haven't posted something I've killed in 10 years and why alot of people stop posting pics.

I wouldn't think to hound folks about that stuff but guess there are those that would/will. In mind just puts all in full context and nore guessing, wondering.

I wouldn't think to hound folks about that stuff but guess there are those that would/will. In my mind just puts all in full context and no more guessing, wondering.

Reason #47, I won’t go to the thread and have to read ridiculous statements like this.

Curious as to why you feel that way.

True story, on many forums that have a large out of Texas presence, if you don't kill your deer on OTC public land, then you suck as a person and they will drag you. Private land, well that's not "real hunting". Baiting? Don't even start. High Fence? you may wake up to crosses burning in your front yard.




The hunting community as a whole has turned into a ridiculous circle jerk to make others feel good about their lack of accomplishments. People on another prominent forum are trying to drag the guy who bought the AZ mule deer tag for $725k....calling him dumb and the ever so common "has more money than sense", which is ironic, as if he has $725k to spend on a deer tag, lacking a stout trust fund, has alot of sense.


Hunting isn't and never will be a level playing field, like pretty much everything else in life.

It is my opinion that in the majority of hf kills there are no tactics beyond selecting the buck you shoot. LF tactics, that’s pages. To state there is not much difference in the tactics is in my opinion, ridiculous. If there was a page/thread, I wouldn’t read it since to me there would be no relevance to hunting.

@txtrophy85, you’re absolutely right. I have zero experience shooting a captive animal.