re: Paid white tail hunts VS really earning a trophy

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I had a guy in my office a few months ago that showed me a picture of a deer that he was going to go kill. He had already paid the place for the right to go shoot him. He then showed me a picture of a deer he had killed there last time but he thought they might have fooled him because it looked a little different from the picture where he "bought" it. That is not hunting.

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How is this anything remotely close to what I have described?

Have you ever been on a property with a fence?

I have, the deer are not tame where I have been. If I fart the wrong way on a stand they blow out just like they would on public land.

do I see more deer? yes
Is the quality higher? yes

If I go to Pike county Illinois and hunt public land, and see more deer and higher quality than pineywoods Louisiana is that also not hunting?

ETA: I am not talking about breeding deer in pens and releasing them in a larger pen. I am talking about a large area of land surrounded by a fence.