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<blockquote data-quote="Riflehunter1776" data-source="post: 1541321" data-attributes="member: 103369"><p>I've done a few high fence hunts, and have failed to see the deer I wanted (so, hunted hard and came away empty handed) as often as the other times that I've successfully taken one. If you go to a quality place, it is hunting. This notion that the deer are tame and stand there waiting to be shot is total baloney....at least in the places I have gone. They are cagey, alert, and intolerant of hunter mistakes. Maybe there are some places where the tame deer story is true, but I've never gone to them. </p><p></p><p>At the same time, I have taken a buck every year since 1996 during the PA deer season. Despite the horrendous hunting pressure, poaching, and competition that keeps deer smaller, I've never been skunked, let alone never ever failed to see a buck that I could shoot if I wanted to. Some years, I'll have a deer walk up to me in the first 5 minutes of daylight...boom, flop, season over. Other times I'll hunt hard until the closing saturday before I settle for one that steps out. Ironically, some of the biggest deer I have ever shot have been the easiest, while sometimes a small buck outsmarts me. So, the "sure thing" argument against high fences does not impress me any more than the "tame deer" argument. </p><p></p><p>A high fence does guarantee that there is a big buck somewhere nearby, and it guarantees that a bunch of jackA**es wont ride around your stand on 4 wheelers while you are hunting. The rest is up to you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Riflehunter1776, post: 1541321, member: 103369"] I've done a few high fence hunts, and have failed to see the deer I wanted (so, hunted hard and came away empty handed) as often as the other times that I've successfully taken one. If you go to a quality place, it is hunting. This notion that the deer are tame and stand there waiting to be shot is total baloney....at least in the places I have gone. They are cagey, alert, and intolerant of hunter mistakes. Maybe there are some places where the tame deer story is true, but I've never gone to them. At the same time, I have taken a buck every year since 1996 during the PA deer season. Despite the horrendous hunting pressure, poaching, and competition that keeps deer smaller, I've never been skunked, let alone never ever failed to see a buck that I could shoot if I wanted to. Some years, I'll have a deer walk up to me in the first 5 minutes of daylight...boom, flop, season over. Other times I'll hunt hard until the closing saturday before I settle for one that steps out. Ironically, some of the biggest deer I have ever shot have been the easiest, while sometimes a small buck outsmarts me. So, the "sure thing" argument against high fences does not impress me any more than the "tame deer" argument. A high fence does guarantee that there is a big buck somewhere nearby, and it guarantees that a bunch of jackA**es wont ride around your stand on 4 wheelers while you are hunting. The rest is up to you. [/QUOTE]
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