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58% |
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34% |
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| For High Fence Hunting |
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6% |
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ts
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Joined: 30 Jun 2005
Posts: 22
Location: eastern nd
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 Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:11 am Post subject: Question for the Ranchers |
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| I would like the views of some of the people from this site if you don't mind. Currently we have a group in ND trying to get an initiative on the ballot that would end High Fence Hunting. I believe they will get the signatures needed, and the people of ND will be asked to vote on it. The majority of the sponsors are from the City and a website I frequent is also dominated by Town people. I have talked to some rural people and I think I have a pretty good feel on their postitions. If you don't mind would you please give me your opinion on this!
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jigs
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Joined: 17 Mar 2005
Posts: 6938
Location: KANSAS
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:40 am Post subject: |
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to me it is like fishin in a rain barrel.
where is the sport?
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Denny
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Joined: 10 Feb 2005
Posts: 4411
Location: Mn usa
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 7:02 am Post subject: |
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Part of hunting is "Fair Chase" If you have animals fenced in you more than likely are feeding them and careing for them.Which to me makes them Domestic animals.So I would say know I would'nt agree with it.Otherwise I may have to sneak up to our hog pen next time we butcher.
The whole hunting craze has gotten to be ridiculous it's sickening.
You want to be a hunter go out in a big public forest with no game calls,scents,scent blockers etc etc etc.Hunt the animal and if you succeed your a hunter.If you need to kill something in a fenced in area your just a "Shooter" big differance.
These hunting show's on TV are a joke I wonder if they have to remove all the ear tags out of the animals before they film them.
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Mike
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Joined: 10 Feb 2005
Posts: 16951
Location: Montgomery, Al
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 7:08 am Post subject: |
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I can understand "both sides of the fence", if you will, with High Fence hunting.
Down here, unless you have many, many acres, it is all but impossible to manage deer for big bucks, because of the wandering capabilities of white tails.
As we had an outbreak of Blue Tongue and BVD in the Alabama herd a few years ago, some argue the fences are necessary for disease control.
The High Fence hunting here is mostly limited to personal hunting by the big and rich landowners wanting to boost their ego's.
I don't see a lot of difference in shooting deer within a high fence and shooting hungry deer over a feed bunk.
A few years back a swamp owner here fenced in the wild alligators.
The state ruled that the gators were owned by the public and forced the guy to take it down.
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Doug Thorson
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Joined: 04 Mar 2007
Posts: 605
Location: western SD
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 7:36 am Post subject: |
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| The whole hunting craze has gotten to be ridiculous it's sickening. |
I agree 100%. I grew up a hunter but I will live to see the day hunting ends because the number of people doing it will be too small to have a voice. The fact of the matter is if I didn't own my own land I wouldn't be able to afford to hunt either. It is getting close to not being able to afford to even hunt on my own land but Dad taught me to hunt and then gave me the opportunity to own the land so I will hunt it.
As far as the high fence I know a guy who has elk in a high fence. It covers 2400 acres of river brakes. I don't have a problem with that because of the size of the area and the fact that it is rough and timbered but I do have a problem with 80-160 acre tracts that are high fenced. I just don't know where the line is.
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HAY MAKER
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Joined: 13 Feb 2005
Posts: 8307
Location: Texas
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:03 am Post subject: |
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| The only high fencing I believe in is around crops,damn deer are so thick they can ruin a crop in a few nights................good luck
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katrina
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Joined: 14 Feb 2005
Posts: 7792
Location: East north east of Soapweed
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:09 am Post subject: |
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| I vote NO.......... It's chickenshit hunting.........
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Northern Rancher
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Joined: 10 Feb 2005
Posts: 12251
Location: saskatchewan
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:18 am Post subject: |
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| About the only time I can maybe see it is for the aged or infirm-some of the outfits up here put on hunts for kids that are pretty disabled. For an able bodied person in the prime of their life they are kind of a joke. Mind you I could high fence the bush we deer hunt in and if you made guys still hunt it there'd be alot of bucks die of old age.
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fulton
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Joined: 17 Feb 2006
Posts: 137
Location: western south dakota
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 10:24 am Post subject: |
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| I wouldnt do it, but im not exactly excited that the government it trying to ban it. Alot of those outfits are set to cater to disabled hunters. Dont see how it much different than shooting game over bait and so forth either.
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jigs
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Joined: 17 Mar 2005
Posts: 6938
Location: KANSAS
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Mike
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Joined: 10 Feb 2005
Posts: 16951
Location: Montgomery, Al
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Northern Rancher
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Joined: 10 Feb 2005
Posts: 12251
Location: saskatchewan
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| Now that had to leave a mark lol.
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