Offseason Deer Hunting Thread - Fair Chase?

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not interested

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ETA: I love to hunt

High fences aren't for everyone, but if you have the means and the capital invested in a piece of property it serves it's purpose.

I hunt about 70/30 high fenced/low fenced and they are equally as exciting for me, but for different reasons.

Not for me, I'd rather run dogs than hunt an animal inside a fence.

Can't eat horns - with two young boys at home I go through to much burger, if its brown its down..

The longer I'm around I've become less bothered by the high fences than the deer and wild game farming that goes with it. The idea of shipping in a farm raised deer for someone to shoot seems so foreign to me. Money changes everything I suppose.

I cant hunt high fence/canned hunts mostly because I find the sight of a whitetail or elk in a pen depressing. Deer and elk have become a commodity like grain, oil or precious metals which are exchanged on open markets. The game preserves effectively ruined whitetail hunting for me. A decade ago killing a legitimate 140-150 fair chase whitetail was one hell of an accomplishment. Kiling a 140-150 on many of these ranches is considered a cull buck.

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I think high fencing should be illegal

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There are an infinite # of degrees of how "sporting" hunting is, from true "canned" hunts all the way down to bow hunting public land with a home made bow. Everyone who has used deer cameras, feeders, google maps and even modern weather forecasting is using technology to gain a significant advantage over the deer they are hunting. The thing to take away from it is that no one considers a high fenced buck to be as impressive as an equal sized free range buck. Neither is wrong or evil, it just isn't the same game. This is true in all the degrees of sportingness.