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re: Giles Island waiting list question
Posted on 1/12/18 at 11:22 am to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
Posted on 1/12/18 at 11:22 am to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
I'm pretty late to this thread but I thought I would add my 2 cents. I checked into Giles a couple of years back. They were booked solid for a while. Decided to go to Texas instead of waiting. Best decision I could have made. Dad and I killed two 140 class bucks for a decent price and got to see some absolute studs. Would still like to go to Giles one day but if I'm paying that much money I want a better that 25% success rate to bowhunt. It doesn't have to be 100% but I would at least like to know I've got a 50/50 chance.
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Posted on 1/12/18 at 11:40 am to cave canem
I guess there's no legal issue with anyone flying low over bolt's land? Seems like that would be a great way to kill a tank of avgas on a nice day.
Posted on 1/12/18 at 11:46 am to Chuker
Without getting into too much detail my time there predates Bolte though I still own a house and bit of land that is surrounded by him now.
Posted on 1/12/18 at 12:18 pm to ElDawgHawg
140" buck in a high fence eating corn isn't anything like the experience of the ms river bottoms
Posted on 1/12/18 at 12:20 pm to ElDawgHawg
ElDawg, was your Texas trip high fence?
Posted on 1/12/18 at 12:25 pm to s14suspense
quote:Idk what this means
Looks like the painting inside the treetops lodge for anyone that's been there. Jacked up looking 10pt that goes vertical.
Posted on 1/12/18 at 1:31 pm to ReauxlTide222
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Idk what this means
They have a very large painting inside the main lodge of a buck that is swolt up and has a similar looking rack as that one.
Posted on 1/12/18 at 1:39 pm to s14suspense
I thought you meant his rack is jacked up
As in ugly as hell.
As in ugly as hell.
Posted on 1/12/18 at 1:48 pm to joeytiger
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ElDawg, was your Texas trip high fence?
Yes it was. I had two potential hunts lined up. either low fence South Texas or a High Fenced place out near Abilene. Went with the high fence hunt more for travel reasons than anything else. My next trip will likely be low fence in ST or Kansas.
I liked the HF and it was much different than I thought it would be. Most people have a misconception that its easy and not fair chase. Very much NOT the case in my experience.
Posted on 1/12/18 at 1:49 pm to Ron Cheramie
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140" buck in a high fence eating corn isn't anything like the experience of the ms river bottoms
he wasn't eating corn, he was chasing a doe in a 10 acre wheat field.
Posted on 1/12/18 at 2:10 pm to ElDawgHawg
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Most people have a misconception that its easy and not fair chase. Very much NOT the case in my experience.
I have hunted very large high fence ranches (2000-10000 acres). It is not what people think at all. They don't drag the deer out for you to shoot, I have never shot one near a feeder on a ranch (not sure if they are all like this) and you are not guaranteed that you will be able to shoot the deer you want because of the same size/age requirements on fair chase ranches. Also, if you want more of a challenge, you can always take your bow. They aren't tame, and if you make noise or move they run, just like anywhere else. I can't speak to all high fence ranches, but the ones I visited, I had just as much fun as I do on my lease each year. It's a different type of hunt, but the success rate is WAY higher on high fence. I would go back to a high fence place in a second. It's usually first class accommodations and fun to see all the animals.
Posted on 1/12/18 at 2:20 pm to joeytiger
Anyone who bitches about high fence hunting should never hunt an island in the MS River (a la Giles..Davis...Glasscock..etc.) They are no different than high fence. Sure deer can swim, but let's not split count hairs here. The high fence ranch is just a landlocked island. No different.
Posted on 1/12/18 at 2:27 pm to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
I think most who bitch about it are the same ones you see on Facebook holding a spike or 4 point with the caption “first deer in 3 years.” I don’t care who you are or where you come from, if you get a chance to hunt high fence, DO IT.
Posted on 1/12/18 at 2:57 pm to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
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Anyone who bitches about high fence hunting should never hunt an island in the MS River (a la Giles..Davis...Glasscock..etc.) They are no different than high fence. Sure deer can swim, but let's not split count hairs here. The high fence ranch is just a landlocked island. No different.
^This 100%
Posted on 1/12/18 at 3:02 pm to ElDawgHawg
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This 100%
?? no it isn’t even close
Posted on 1/12/18 at 3:18 pm to ElDawgHawg
So hunting a place with native deer that came on their own accord and can leave if they so desire is the same as hunting a place that is the complete opposite? Got it. Most river clubs partially or fully submerge several times in a decade. The deer leave then go right back. Hardly the same as a high fence.
Posted on 1/12/18 at 3:25 pm to LSUballs
Not even close to the same thing. If the deer wants to leave the property it will, it can’t do that on a high fence farm. It’s pretty simple. The stupidity on this board is unreal.
Posted on 1/12/18 at 4:18 pm to JAB528
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Not even close to the same thing. If the deer wants to leave the property it will, it can’t do that on a high fence farm. It’s pretty simple. The stupidity on this board is unreal.
They have deer that just straight up disappear and have deer they have never seen show up all of the sudden all the time.
Posted on 1/12/18 at 4:29 pm to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
Congratulations on posting the most asinine comment ever recorded on the OB.
You have beaten out Bama n beer from way back in his drunk posting days.
Please start several different threads this weekend so we can all point and laugh.
You have beaten out Bama n beer from way back in his drunk posting days.
Please start several different threads this weekend so we can all point and laugh.
Posted on 1/12/18 at 4:43 pm to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
SMH....
Steven Rinella calls fence hunting, “limp dick hunting”. I agree.
Moreover, a guy in this thread says high fence hunting is just like non-high fence but the success rate is much higher.
You don’t say.
As to MS River hunting, I’ve hunted inside the river levee for many years on the Mississippi side from Mayersville up to above Clarksdale.
It’s some of the best hunting for multiple species in North America. And it is fair chase. Those deer swim the river, and especially river shoots, all the time.
Basically, men build high fences to try to approximate what is the norm behind the levee.
Steven Rinella calls fence hunting, “limp dick hunting”. I agree.
Moreover, a guy in this thread says high fence hunting is just like non-high fence but the success rate is much higher.
You don’t say.
As to MS River hunting, I’ve hunted inside the river levee for many years on the Mississippi side from Mayersville up to above Clarksdale.
It’s some of the best hunting for multiple species in North America. And it is fair chase. Those deer swim the river, and especially river shoots, all the time.
Basically, men build high fences to try to approximate what is the norm behind the levee.
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