Man you did nothing wrong in your post - made total sense - you worded it exactly right - ignore the clutter from others - you will love your place once you get to control it -

Ha, you can come help work cows anytime you like My cows are so tame they are easy to work, a neighbor and I usually do just fine. I bought some replacement 4-5 year old angus cows a couple of weeks ago, heavy bred and some have already dropped calves. Got a great deal on them too from a friend and neighbor. He lost a 2000 acre lease and didn't want to run them through the sale barn.

Nice work Stompy, don't blame you a bit, and more power to you! You know, the yankee mentality never ceases to amaze me. They use to come down here to the Permian and attempt to "educate us" as to how to extract energy/oil/gas from the ground because they are smarter than everyone else. Guess they forgot we'd been doing it out here successfully since about 1935. They love hearing themselves talk.

The first set of gates are done, I'll paint them this weekend. The overhead is 15'.

I think it looks great. Thanks for sharing. And for those of us that dont have our own place, always good to hear someone say they will consider selling management hunts in the future.

I would like the cross bar and brand painted white...if I get a say....lol

It looks white but it's aluminum paint...you wanna come help? lol

We all wish you would exit this thread.

Congrats, Stompy

Buckeye, I really don't see the same thing in Stompy's original post; I re-read it and I clearly get his confliction as indicated. He never intended to own a HF ranch but circumstances out of his control made it an obvious choice he had to make. If that's ashamedness, I'm not seeing it the same way you are. I just see a landowner conveying/baring his personal situation.

Liberals and yankees should exit the entire forum.

You mean to tell me you took perfectly good habitat and high fenced it! And you now trapped them animals so the neighbors can’t shoot them? You are so inconsiderate!

🤣 that’s awesome sir and congratulations on what most of us will never experience. I truly am jealous!

Wow
Great looking fence Stompy and I completely understand why you spent some serious hard earned money of yours to do it.
Hats off to you for wanting to do it right and chase mature deer and have the best deer herd you can have!

Please keep posting your progress I love to read and see about all of it!

Most of the new fence line is pretty clean, but about a mile stretch needed some dozer work.

Greening up quick Stompy!!

Somebody said its been greening up for two months, I think it was Stompy.

I'm not a high fence hunter, but completely understand your reasoning for going with one. As bigger ranches get split up into smaller parcels with new landowners not necessarily being management minded, this is certainly one way to take matters into your own hands. Certainly no small financial decision either, so I hope it works out for you.

Took this pic yesterday.

Pasture's looking good. It's a shame you have to spend the money on a high fence to protect the integrity of your investment and your ability to enjoy the fruits of your labor developing a quality deer herd. The breaking up of larger tracts has certainly come a lot faster than I thought it would. It's a shame. I would have done the same thing given your circumstances.

very nice

These Elm trees are quite the challenge.

Hot dog them mommas look fat and happy!

Beautiful pic!

Looking good!

Heck yes, your fence is looking good

I was never a big fan of HF unless someone was breeding exotics, that has changed big time for the reasons you are putting your HF up!

As Texas is being over-run by people moving here and as you mentioned all of these beautiful medium to large ranches being chopped up for sale as small ranchettes, it is inevitable that the quality of hunting will diminish because of the additional amount of hunters per acre with little or no game management, you know the type "if it is Brown it's Down or if it Fly's it Dies"
Your high fence will also help keep trespassers of your property!

BTW there is nothing selfish about what you are doing, it makes perfect sense for someone who really enjoys quality hunting in a serene setting.

Looking Good! I'm like you, don't care for HF ,but in your situation I don't blame you. I would do the same thing.

Bit of a rough week with blown tires and having to cut up and prepare pipe. But they got another long stretch done, part of it still needs to be clipped. Looks like about 2.5-3 weeks before completion.