what is Your opinion of high fence hunting? This is mine I think its better than hunting open range. You know the animals are there .If You dont make a good shot they cant go to far .You dont have to wonder where the boundry of the land You are hunting on is .Most of the time there are more animals to pick from. If Im paying to hunt I dont want to go home empty handed, but I have . I think if You havent tried it dont Knock it .

Old bucky, your approach isn't going help you or your operation much.

People either like it or don't.. No changing thier minds. Might just want to leave it at that

Trolling or advertising?

just wanting some opinins

An all out slug fest is likely to follow. Well, a virtual slug fest.

depends on acreage & cover.

Fair enough.. I think it a great place to take young one to keep their interst up and a fair price alternative to a lease. But a smaller HF place is not my cup of tea, but I would not condone those that do it.

i agree with rifleman and jgiles....depends ont he side of the place......10k acres then cool.....but like 100 acres then i say no.

This one could get interesting, so I'll get started on it early on. I have mixed feelings about high fence. In most cases, there is a different skill level required to hunt public land than private land (low or high fence). I think a lot of what I question on a high fenced property is size, cover, and game population. Too many animals on a small piece of property with little cover is just a shooting pen, but larger properties with adequate cover and not too many animals can be fun.

Other than waterfowl, I do not hunt on public land.....but I sure am happy for the hunter that gets that monster hunting public land. In most cases, they did their homework and hunted their butt off to get their deer. These guys get my utmost respect.

I prefer to hunt private land, but most times can not afford to hunt larger tracts of land. If you hunt small pieces of property, sometimes it means sitting a lot of times and not seeing anything. While I enjoy the hunting experience, and the challenge of these hunts, I also recognize the opportunities that a high fence offers.

I have hunted high fence a couple of times and I have always had an absolute blast, and most times came home with whatever I went to hunt. Some of the places I have been the animals were as wild or wilder than some I have seen on private land that was low fence. I have hunted private land that was low fence that deer would be seen just about every sitting, and I have also hunted at high fence operations that I did not see anything during the hunt. I personally do not get the same satisfaction our of a high fence hunt as I would a self guided hunt, but that is just me. I've shot what I consider to be some decent critters in high fence, but some of my most memorable hunts are much smaller racked bucks that I earned on my own.

I like having the option of hunting high fence if I want to. If it's for you, fine, if not, don't go. As long as the hunter doesn't shoot a big deer in a high fence and then try and pass it off as a public land deer or enter it in a big buck contest as low fence, I don't have any problem with it.

I like the ability to introduce someone new to hunting to a successful hunting experience, but I like to be up front with them and let them know that not all hunting is that easy. I think all of the times you come home empty handed just make it that much sweeter when you do have success.

I'm neutral on this subject. For me a hunt needs to be fun and entertaining regardless of the height of the fence. I hunted hogs on small acreage high fence. All spot stalk in the thick and nasty. Worked my but off to finally get a medium sized pig. Of course on the same place if I would have wanted a buffalo, axis, or any of those odd goats, all I would have needed was a 9 iron, well maybe a driver, and I could has easily smacked on in the head.

not my style,but to each his own as long as it is legal.

What, are we playing nice? Good job guys.

What do you guys think the minimum acreage should be for a HF ranch?

humm i would say 1000 plus maybe

ya i gotta agree at least 1,000 if the land has decent cover. If cover is thin than Id say 2,000. Other wise its a canned hunt IMO.

I think it depends on the area. I been on some smaller 300 acre places that the only place with more then a 50 yard shot was the road coming in. Been on 5k places that you could see half the ranch with a spotting scope.

I like what was posted earlier... pressure is the main key. I don't care how big of place you have... If your rolling hunters through it like six flags its going to be a hard hunt HF LF doesn't matter. Yet you could go to a smaller piece of land that barely sees a human and feel like you found the pot of gold under the rainbow.

Very true jgiles.

thin cover..... 10K. Thick to the point you have to crawl though it in most parts... 5K...but if it's legal do it to it.

edit: pressure is what it's about, but given the scenario that "a person" has an entire season to hunt.... they had better be able to find whatever deer they are after on a sub 1k place.

Fixed it

Will if its a 35 acre pig pen, then I'd say it's unethical, but hey maybe thats just me.

Are you paying to hunt or you paying to shoot. Going home empty handed most of the time makes it better when you do harvest an animal and going home empty handed is a big part of hunting. Shooting an animal is a very small part of the deal.

lol...just saying. Find a road and follow it, thats what I'de do.

very true, killing or going home with a cooler with meat is not even what its about IMO, its about getting off work or out of the city, joking with buddys, drinking and actting up and having a good time. if people want to hunt for meat it would be cheaper for them to go to HEB and buy the meat instead of killing a fenced cage

That what both of us would do... but how many might actually think there is a short cut : )

To each his own and I would hunt on a high fenced place but I dont think that a 160" high fenced deer means anywhere near as much as a 160" free range especially when people have breeding pens and are artifically inseminating.