Art Eatman
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Sorry, but I don't see where a deer in a 10,000-acre high-fence pasture is easier for a hunter than that same deer running around on a gazillion acres of public land.
A spooked whitetail deer is gonna run in a circle in the general area with which he is familiar, and that's rarely more than one or two square miles of land. You spook Ol' Bucky, and he'll generally run upwind and uphill until he's out of sight. After some not-long period of time he will begin a circle back toward where he came from. Ol' Bucky does not want to leave his home turf.
I could high-fence about fifty acres of my southeast pasture and a walking hunter couldn't find a buck in there in a week unless he volunteered for suicide. You can't shoot what you can't find. What with mesquite, greasewood and cactus, you're not even gonna sneaky-snake quietly enough to get a shot. Flat; no trees, no way to look down into any small clear area. One helluva lot of Texas brush country is no different.
For the umpteenth time: A high fence is to keep other deer out, to have a resident population of deer which won't exceed the carrying capacity of the habitat.
A spooked whitetail deer is gonna run in a circle in the general area with which he is familiar, and that's rarely more than one or two square miles of land. You spook Ol' Bucky, and he'll generally run upwind and uphill until he's out of sight. After some not-long period of time he will begin a circle back toward where he came from. Ol' Bucky does not want to leave his home turf.
I could high-fence about fifty acres of my southeast pasture and a walking hunter couldn't find a buck in there in a week unless he volunteered for suicide. You can't shoot what you can't find. What with mesquite, greasewood and cactus, you're not even gonna sneaky-snake quietly enough to get a shot. Flat; no trees, no way to look down into any small clear area. One helluva lot of Texas brush country is no different.
For the umpteenth time: A high fence is to keep other deer out, to have a resident population of deer which won't exceed the carrying capacity of the habitat.