Big West Baton Rouge Parish Buck

[LawDawg]

1000 acres high fenced...is not a lot of land...but I guess it perspective.

I'm down with high fencing land...but not high fencing 1000 acres. I own 1500 and if I high fenced it to keep billy bob next door from shootin my deer (which I've contemplated doing) and it's just not even fair...

10,000 is another story they can arguably still be wild in that, but 1,000 is not that much when you really get down to it. Especially when it would heavily depend on the makeup of the land (pines, hardwoods, fields ect)

I totally agree with you on the makeup of the land. In Texas, 1,000 of land might only be 200 acres of place for deer to hide. But if 1,000 of the land I am hunting now and that surrounds me were high fenced, I think it would still be fair chase. now you couldn't hunt 30 people on it, but i don't see anything wrong or unfair with 3 or 4 people hunting it at one time.

[Tedl10]

And Law Dawg, this is not even close to the lake deal. Fish are fish and I would liken this to catching one out of Bass Pro's aquarium...not a small pond.

This is EXACTLY like catching them in a pond. fish are fish, deer are deer, and cows are cows. like i said before, 1,000 is a LOT of land and I would venture to say that there would be deer on that land that would never be seen in the daylight. Now if it were a 50 acre enclosure, I would see where your analogy about Bass Pro's aquarium would make since.

don't non fenced areas take pride in feeding and letting certain deer breed in order to ensure good genetics? I know the camps I have belonged to do. the difference with a high fence on this type of enclosure is that you can somewhat ensure that Brian down the street (random name, I promise) won't shoot the 3 or 4 year old that you want to reach maturity.

now If they are shipping tame deer in and putting them in front of a corn feeder for someone to shoot, I will agree that is not hunting. But why do you need 1,000 acres high fenced if you are shipping in tame deer?

Alec, you da man. I agree with ya 110%!!

[Blackduck]

Deer in that area are usually pretty scrawny. I bet this big boy was well fed. You just can't get deer that size in that environment without some help. I wonder what the game camera's show their herd looking like.

As far highfence. If you think 500 or 750 or 1000 is big enough to keep deer in a wild environment the roll on. I would relax my standards down in South La because it is impossible to grow something like that in the wild. Hunting is hunting and killing is killing.


I have to admit. Sometimes I just like killin'

[THE BUCKMAN]

You guys aren't gonna believe this...but I had THIS DEER as my screensaver all season long, on a night camera with his head in a pile of corn! I'll try to send it to Irongrip or msbigdog1234 so he can post it. Small world...

[huntersmky]

what would be a ball park figure to completely enclose 1000 acres with a 10 foot fence?

[The Land Man]

It would not be hard at all to kill a deer in a fenced in place of a 1000 acres! Find the place find the deer and give me a week on it and he will be dead, it's not that hard he can't escape! I guess that's why they will not allow them in the books because it's not fair chase.

[LawDawg]

It would not be hard at all to kill a deer in a fenced in place of a 1000 acres! Find the place find the deer and give me a week on it and he will be dead, it's not that hard he can't escape! I guess that's why they will not allow them in the books because it's not fair chase.

find the place, find the deer, and give me a week on any land and I will kill it. I just don't have a week straight to hunt a deer.

[Relentless]

what would be a ball park figure to completely enclose 1000 acres with a 10 foot fence?

10 ft fence wouldn't be high enough... call me crazy... not to mention the upkeep on something like that is NUTS...it has to be ridden non stop to check for holes, trees fallen on it, ECT. which is why I'm saying that it will one day be impossible to kill a 100% natural deer... hurricane...and all the sudden you got a 180" 2 year old breeder buck crusin the wild woods...

I have a friend in Illinois, he breeds deer. He's lost TWO breeder bucks...a 2 year old 160" deer and a 3 year old 180+... so now there is 2 pen raised deer running wild through illinois, they got they're horns cut off, but next year they'll grow 200" racks...now joe shmo from cocomo kills that ba$tard next year 1 mile away on his farm...is it P&Y or B&Y?? Is it really a naturally grown wild deer?

not IMO thats why I'm all for highfencing wild deer if you want, but don't claim to be a bada$$ great white hunter when you kill one in 1000 acres, because it's not hard...and definately don't flex your muscles when you killed a steroid injected protein fed 180" deer in a 1000 acre pen...

[Tedl10]

what would be a ball park figure to completely enclose 1000 acres with a 10 foot fence?

call me crazy....

you CRAZY!!! sorry, you told me to.

[mts68]

what would be a ball park figure to completely enclose 1000 acres with a 10 foot fence?

10 ft fence wouldn't be high enough... call me crazy... not to mention the upkeep on something like that is NUTS...it has to be ridden non stop to check for holes, trees fallen on it, ECT. which is why I'm saying that it will one day be impossible to kill a 100% natural deer... hurricane...and all the sudden you got a 180" 2 year old breeder buck crusin the wild woods...

I have a friend in Illinois, he breeds deer. He's lost TWO breeder bucks...a 2 year old 160" deer and a 3 year old 180+... so now there is 2 pen raised deer running wild through illinois, they got they're horns cut off, but next year they'll grow 200" racks...now joe shmo from cocomo kills that ba$tard next year 1 mile away on his farm...is it P&Y or B&Y?? Is it really a naturally grown wild deer?

not IMO thats why I'm all for highfencing wild deer if you want, but don't claim to be a bada$$ great white hunter when you kill one in 1000 acres, because it's not hard...and definately don't flex your muscles when you killed a steroid injected protein fed 180" deer in a 1000 acre pen...

I have a friend that happens to have a high fence, and it is 10 feet, so I'm gonna go out on a limb and call you CRAZY. Also, I think it was 30k a mile, but I could be wrong. For some reason those figures make sense.

[bamabang]

We looked at getting one on our 600 acres a few years ago. Cost then was about 65K....