What are the laws on shooting escaped high fence game?

negative. they are considered cattle and someone's property.









I actually don't know but thats food for thought. I'd blast away then shut up about it.

Fair game. Unless they are breeders in a breeder pen, they are property of the state of Texas whether high fenced or not.

I shot an escaped axis deer in Texas about 10 years ago. They said it was fair game.

You don’t d*ck around in TX baw…

Anything on your property is legal, but don’t even think about popping one on the other side of the fence. There are varying degrees of punishment depending on how far you venture into neighboring property, weapon/no weapon etc to retrieve the animal.

If you shoot one and it hops the fence, call green jeans unless you are tight with your neighbor.

OP said “shoot,” not “hunt.” I’d shoot ‘em for the same reason I’d shoot any other nuisance animal on my hunting property.

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I've never in my life felt the desire to hunt an animal from India. I don't want to kill some Asian "deer".

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Quite apparent you've never eaten wild exotic "deer". Most who have will agree whitetail may not make the top 5 of venison table fare. If someone offers you a red deer hind, nilgai, axis, blackbuck, oryx, and/or sika, you'll feed your dog every packet of whitetail meat in the freezer.

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Most who have will agree whitetail may not make the top 5 of venison table fare.

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Not most, more like 99.9% would not put whitetail in the top 5 of venison. Elk and moose are far far superior table fare and as you said Axis, red dear, Sambar, etc. are all more similar to Elk and moose than white tail.

Mule deer is almost always considered not as good as White tail, but elk and moose as far as North American are considered far superior.

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Better question would be, "What is the best way to cook ______?"

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Ready..........
First you make a Roux..
Sorry, could not help myself.