How do people look at hunting when it comes time to hunt a high fenced in area. There are so many places now day’s going to a high fenced in hunting area. What is the advantages and disadvantages that it may have compared to free range hunting?
I had the chance to work with a hunting lodge located in Forest Home, Alabama that was surrounded by a twenty foot high fence. Yes I will say that there was always work to do and the fact of keeping certain animals like coyote’s and bobcats and other wild dogs out of the area was just as hard. The time and pressure that is put on one person to take care of a lodge in the summer time by himself was very tiring at most times.
The fun part about this place was the fact that I can say I seen deer every day the whole time I was there. There was also a breeding operation going on inside it as well. So having the chance to hand feed deer and them walk rite up to you was amazing and fun.
I can say that in a high fenced area you are holding deer in a certain area where you can’t do it on free range land. The deer outside the actual breeding pen were just as wild as a free roaming deer. You couldn’t just walk up to these deer cause they would run in a heart beat. There were bucks on this place that exceeded 200 inches in antler easy. The site of seeing deer like this has a effect on a free range hunter.
You can manage the property better with a high fence but it can be harder at sometimes to make sure that the fence stay’s up at all times and then there are always gates to open and close where on land of free range you may not even have to open a single gate except to go into the property.
Hunting a high fenced area you can have the chance to see deer just about every single time you go hunting. Where on free range land you may not have that chance. Free roaming deer seem to be actually less skittish than a pen deer cause they have more ground that they can put in between you and them at all times where a pen deer can’t.
As the old saying go’s grass is always greener on the other side of the fence well that’s not always true. In my opinion grass could always be greener on the outside of the fence. For years now people say that a high fenced area is unethical hunting.