re: Is this where I come to show off my buck?

Shooting a deer in a pen was on your bucket list? What else is on there, flying a fighter jet on a simulator?

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Was it weird sitting in a stand with a guide,someone you don’t know.?I think it would bug me.

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If you are flipping through pictures and a price list to decide what you want to shoot out of a box stand, then it's not a guide you are sitting with, it's a chaperone/butler.

Bucket list is a weird way to describe this.

Edit to add: If someone offered me a free trip to such a place I would gladly take it. I'd just rather spend my money on buying more land to pass own to my kids than buying a deer.

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or what color underwear I was wearing at the time (they were blue)

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The high fence thing is ok but blue tighties? come on baw

“Shooting a deer in a pen”

1300 acres,is hardly a pen.The Concordia parish high fence place was a pen.
I watched a promotional VCR tape they sent years ago,very small acreage
bunch of freaky giant antlered bucks standing around feed troughs with numbered ear tags.One could reserve the deer they wanted to shoot,cost some serious money.

I looked up the Greystone Castle Sporting Club,it’s a fine place for people that have more money than time.
I could actuallly afford to go shoot a trophy buck there if I wanted to but I would feel very much out of place.After all,I’m a redneck from Grant Parish.

I don’t quite understand some of the snarky comments.The way I look at it,I’m glad there are people they want to run hunting operations like that.It costs a lot of money,I suspect the ROI is not terribly high,the expense has to be tremendous.
They provide a lot of jobs,both direct and indirect.
I would much rather see an operation like that rather than turn it into a solar panel farm or subdivisions.If they don’t get customers that’s exactly what it’ll end up.

There are too,many judgemental,people,Take bow hunting,the longbow people,look down on the recurve people,they in turn look down on the compound bow hunter who look down on the crossbow hunters.
As long as it’s legal everyone should be able to hunt as they see fit without being judged.To criticize people for hunting out of heated box stands is ridiculous.It’s much better pastime than sitting in a casino feeding slot machines or sitting in a bar destroying one’s liver.

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Not gonna lie, that sounds pretty great.

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Hell they'll probably even import some whores and cocaine if you want.

Nice buck Wee!

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if they wore $2000 worth of Sitka gear instead and left the heater at home?

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A little better. Though I'd still judge him negatively for being rich boy who can't handle a little shivering.

There is a long sliding scale of where people draw the line on sportsmanship. I'm most proud of my heavily hunted public land 8pnt takin from 24ft up in a tree with a compound bow. A Native American from 1400 would laugh at my perceived sportsmanship.

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ook at it you're shooting livestock

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So why not kill a 500lb cow. frick the horns, give me the meat.

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Not gonna lie, that sounds pretty great. Hell they'll probably even import some whores and cocaine if you want.

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I’m pretty sure that arrangements could be made if one is so inclined and didn’t mind missing the hunt the next morning. I know that some of the people that were there from New York City got one of the staff to drive them to Rick’s in Fort Worth.

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Nice buck Wee!

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Thank you

ETA: FTR I don’t give a shite about anyone’s opinion. However, I do enjoy trolling haters.

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I find anyone hunting out of a heated blind an embarrassment

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Hell, we had heated box stands on Three Buck Bayou Club back in the late 70’s. We would take a small room heater, put it in the stand and then run the hose down to a butane bottle on the ground.

Some of the best deer hunters I ever knew hunted like that. I didn’t get out of the box stand until I began bow hunting in the early 80’s.

Sorry to embarrass you. LOL