November 25, 201411 yr Where's the sport in going to hunt at a place that is purposely stock piled with huge deer? This place claims to not bring in deer from outside. They claim all of their deer were born and grew up on their property. That said I still wouldn't do it. 1. I couldn't afford it. My guess is the deer in the pic cost upwards of $30,000 to shoot. 2. If I could afford it I still wouldn't do it. Just not my thing. I do begrudge someone that does. I try not to put down any legal hunting method, but it's just not my cup of tea. Now, keep in mind some of the high fence ranches out there are several 1000 acres. This one claims to be 1000+. There are ranches in Texas that are close to 100,000 acres. When you get that big the fence really isn't an issue. But when you do things to alter deer/antler size I'm out, don't really care how big the ranch is. At that point you are shooting cattle.
November 25, 201411 yr Snopes says real deer wrong everything else. Killed on a high fence game farm in Wisconsin on September of 09, farm is called wilderness whitetails. Q says it was killed in MI.
November 25, 201411 yr This place claims to not bring in deer from outside. They claim all of their deer were born and grew up on their property. That said I still wouldn't do it. 1. I couldn't afford it. My guess is the deer in the pic cost upwards of $30,000 to shoot. 2. If I could afford it I still wouldn't do it. Just not my thing. I do begrudge someone that does. I try not to put down any legal hunting method, but it's just not my cup of tea. Now, keep in mind some of the high fence ranches out there are several 1000 acres. This one claims to be 1000+. There are ranches in Texas that are close to 100,000 acres. When you get that big the fence really isn't an issue. But when you do things to alter deer/antler size I'm out, don't really care how big the ranch is. At that point you are shooting cattle. I'm with you. If I have 30K to drop on a hunt, Alaska here we come.
November 26, 201411 yr I'm with you. If I have 30K to drop on a hunt, Alaska here we come. You could probably do several animals in alaska or Canada for that kind of coin.
November 26, 201411 yr Horse steroids it appears. :idunno: No kidding. Not sure I would want to eat the venison.
December 9, 201411 yr The high fence "ranches" tend to do a lot more than protein powder for the herd. The larger ones in Texas have herd geneticist that closely control the breeding, only specific does, and typically they make a good deal of their money from breeding specific genetic strains of bucks and selling them to other ranches. There are a number of magazines where you can pick your stock buck for breeding, or if you are a hunter looking for a specific antler strain, you can get see the genetic markers before you hunt. High tech and lots of what I would consider Non-Hunters head to these places. The good news is that down south they tend to have ferrel hog problems on these ranches and have all you can shoot hog hunts for really reasonable fees. Something to consider in the off season
December 9, 201411 yr The high fence "ranches" tend to do a lot more than protein powder for the herd. The larger ones in Texas have herd geneticist that closely control the breeding, only specific does, and typically they make a good deal of their money from breeding specific genetic strains of bucks and selling them to other ranches. There are a number of magazines where you can pick your stock buck for breeding, or if you are a hunter looking for a specific antler strain, you can get see the genetic markers before you hunt. High tech and lots of what I would consider Non-Hunters head to these places. The good news is that down south they tend to have ferrel hog problems on these ranches and have all you can shoot hog hunts for really reasonable fees. Something to consider in the off season
December 9, 201411 yr The high fence "ranches" tend to do a lot more than protein powder for the herd. The larger ones in Texas have herd geneticist that closely control the breeding, only specific does, and typically they make a good deal of their money from breeding specific genetic strains of bucks and selling them to other ranches. There are a number of magazines where you can pick your stock buck for breeding, or if you are a hunter looking for a specific antler strain, you can get see the genetic markers before you hunt. High tech and lots of what I would consider Non-Hunters head to these places. The good news is that down south they tend to have ferrel hog problems on these ranches and have all you can shoot hog hunts for really reasonable fees. Something to consider in the off season No kidding, where is the sport in this? It seems similar to going dove hunting at the Opening Ceremonies of the Olympic Games (to quote Jeff Foxworthy).
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