Recent content by RockinU

pathetic...

I'm not a good person to ask, because I derive income from running my tracking dogs. The actual act of trailing a wounded deer can be frustrating and demoralizing, but recovering a deer that was thought to be lost can be exhilarating. Overall I enjoy it, but probably wouldn't as much if I...

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This is why I think it needs to be left open for interpretation. A 10,000 acre high fence is a whole different animal from a 350 acre high fence place. The main thing to me is that the deer should be wild. Not hand fed, no ear tags or any of that stuff. A deer can get away in a couple...

LOL...good guess. We raise running Quarter Horses...thus the handle, our stable's name is Rockin U Running Horses. I do have 2 Thoroughbred mares though.

I have had all manner of coondogs, and breaking one off deer is a pain, to say the least. A dog that will run deer never makes a good tracking dog. If they are willing to run a healthy deer anyway, they will leave a blood-trail in a heartbeat if they come across a hot deer track laid by a...

It is more constrained than that. "Free-ranging" precludes any "high fence" deer from being considered fair chase. If feeders are your hang-up, then I would argue hunting food-plots, or any agriculture should hang you up as well. Not sure why you have to make this so difficult, most serious...

My two "A-team" dogs are Blue Lacy/Black-mouth Cur cross. I have a man with a bench champion Black and Tan wanting to breed to the gyp for pick...still undecided.

The more I've looked the more I think you are right, it's too tall to be a bavarian. More than likely it's a tracking dog. In most of Texas it is legal to use up to two unleashed dogs for the recovery of wounded deer (I recently posted a thread with a recovery one of my dogs made).

They don't define it...the Boone & Crockett club does. How do you define it? ETA: Link to Boone & Crockett's fair chase statement: http://www.boone-crockett.org/huntingEthics/ethics_fairchase.asp?area=huntingEthics

Again, just for the sake of clarity...The King Ranch is low fence/fair chase, and adamant about it.

18" hbar? who built the upper?

Please introduce me to John...I would love the opportunity to hunt a low fence 200 inch buck for free!!

Just reading their web-site, only year I saw specific numbers for was 1998. Top 5 that year avg. grossed over 200. Biggest grossed 246...and they say that fair-chase, and habitat preservation are the lynch pins of their operation.

The King Ranch is 825,000 acres (biggest ranch in U.S.) located entirely in some of the best white-tail habitat in the state. They do get that big down there, and last I was aware, they were not bringing in any outside deer.