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<blockquote data-quote="CMP70306" data-source="post: 1484389" data-attributes="member: 36999"><p>Personally I prefer free range hunting as that is what I've done for pretty much my entire life to this point. Where I hunt in PA it is a mix of plots averaging around 75 to 100 acres so every deer you see is traveling across multiple properties in a day. There is no way to keep the deer on your property and the one property we hunt is across the street from public land so as soon as we start shooting all the deer jump the road to hide.</p><p></p><p>When it comes to high fence hunting I personally think there needs to be a distinction made between the two types of high fence hunting. On one hand you small properties that import the animals right before a hunt and make sure you see a bunch of giant deer because they have nowhere to hide. On the other you have large ranches with a couple thousand acres whose fences are simply meant to keep the expensive exotic animals from wandering on to someone else's property rather than to hinder their movement and make them easy to find.</p><p></p><p>I went on one high fence hunt when I was 13, my dad's buddy found a place within a few hours drive of our house where me and his son could hunt wild boar. While it was fun and we still tell stories about it to this day I doubt I'd ever go back. This was partially because of the hunt itself and partially because of the place we were at. The total hunt was short, if I wasn't a super excited kid shooting offhand and had actually hit the head instead of pulling my shot it would have been over in about 45 minutes. The resulting chase added another 45 minutes to the hunt until we got ahead of it and I was actually able to shoot it in the head. So total hunt from when we left camp to when we returned with the boar was an hour and a half. Price was 400 bucks for a meat boar not one of the giant trophy ones.</p><p></p><p>The other part was the place we were at and the people it seemed to attract. A few examples, a guy shot a wild boar 18 times with a 9mm, another had water buffalo chase his group around the woods after he shot it several times with a bow before accidentally hitting the femoral artery and it bled out, a guy had his 10 year old son shoot a Bison 5 times with a 20 gauge while chasing it all over the property (it wandered by the lodge and didn't even look injured, we left before we found out if he actually got it) and there was a guy who, from the lodge porch, kept taking 200 yard pot shots with his shotgun at some Rams until he finally hit one 10 or so shots later and then shot several more times because he only knocked it down and didn't kill it. Basically not a **** person in that place could shoot except my 12 year old friend who shot his boar in the ear. </p><p></p><p>So long story short I would not spend the money on a small place like that which has a ton of different animals on a few hundred acres of land. To me that is not really hunting and if I'm gonna spend the money I would rather go to a large ranch out west or down south where i get to hunt something other then white tails and it takes more than 45 minutes to complete the hunt.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CMP70306, post: 1484389, member: 36999"] Personally I prefer free range hunting as that is what I've done for pretty much my entire life to this point. Where I hunt in PA it is a mix of plots averaging around 75 to 100 acres so every deer you see is traveling across multiple properties in a day. There is no way to keep the deer on your property and the one property we hunt is across the street from public land so as soon as we start shooting all the deer jump the road to hide. When it comes to high fence hunting I personally think there needs to be a distinction made between the two types of high fence hunting. On one hand you small properties that import the animals right before a hunt and make sure you see a bunch of giant deer because they have nowhere to hide. On the other you have large ranches with a couple thousand acres whose fences are simply meant to keep the expensive exotic animals from wandering on to someone else’s property rather than to hinder their movement and make them easy to find. I went on one high fence hunt when I was 13, my dad’s buddy found a place within a few hours drive of our house where me and his son could hunt wild boar. While it was fun and we still tell stories about it to this day I doubt I’d ever go back. This was partially because of the hunt itself and partially because of the place we were at. The total hunt was short, if I wasn’t a super excited kid shooting offhand and had actually hit the head instead of pulling my shot it would have been over in about 45 minutes. The resulting chase added another 45 minutes to the hunt until we got ahead of it and I was actually able to shoot it in the head. So total hunt from when we left camp to when we returned with the boar was an hour and a half. Price was 400 bucks for a meat boar not one of the giant trophy ones. The other part was the place we were at and the people it seemed to attract. A few examples, a guy shot a wild boar 18 times with a 9mm, another had water buffalo chase his group around the woods after he shot it several times with a bow before accidentally hitting the femoral artery and it bled out, a guy had his 10 year old son shoot a Bison 5 times with a 20 gauge while chasing it all over the property (it wandered by the lodge and didn’t even look injured, we left before we found out if he actually got it) and there was a guy who, from the lodge porch, kept taking 200 yard pot shots with his shotgun at some Rams until he finally hit one 10 or so shots later and then shot several more times because he only knocked it down and didn’t kill it. Basically not a **** person in that place could shoot except my 12 year old friend who shot his boar in the ear. So long story short I would not spend the money on a small place like that which has a ton of different animals on a few hundred acres of land. To me that is not really hunting and if I’m gonna spend the money I would rather go to a large ranch out west or down south where i get to hunt something other then white tails and it takes more than 45 minutes to complete the hunt. [/QUOTE]
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