High fence in Indiana?

Nope....it's not hunting.....but it is a form of entertainment for those who care and can afford to partake.

My problem is not with the folks who own these places, it's with the folks who go to them.

Well i see Spike and JRB have both voted looks like spike might have voted twice.

I was on the fence (pun intended) about high-fence until I read the article in the Star last fall about Whitetail Bluff. I had never felt the need to hunt one of those places, in fact, I didn't want to at all. After I read that article I realized that those places don't sell hunts, they sell the opportunity to shoot.

For me, that article hurt Rodney's support with the everyday sportsman/woman that actually WORK at a hunt. Part of hunting a big (or mature) buck is not knowing if anther is in the area, let alone if there's even a chance of it coming by your stand. If you know that there's 15 (just an arbitrary number) bucks in an enclosure that's 100 acres, and 7-8 of them are 130"+ that's just not hunting in my book....

Gundude- Definitely wasting your time ! The "real" sportsmen have spoken ! The original survey on these hunting forums showed 78% in support(and that was with over 200 replies, Documented FACT). The public showed over 80% in support this past year in meetings across Indiana(Documented FACT). Just keep trying to find a way to support your cause, it ain't gonna happen. Maybe if you ask this where you can control the outcome you will feel better. But the result is the same - There will be hundreds more sportsmen hunt the preserves in Indiana this fall than will vote on your lick your wound survey(FACT).

Spike,
What's the name of your place? 80 of your 83 posts are about high fence killing. So, I'm thinking your doing a little advertising. How can you call your customers hunters and sportsmen? I don't think looking for the best price is hunting and shooting penned animals is not sporting. Maybe you can explain this to me and change my mind.

Wasn't the original poll something like would you fence you property if you had a place to hunt? Most said yes because of trespassers and were not talking high fence. Hundreds of sportsmen would vote yes? Sorry spike but those are not sportsmen or women or children. They are just like the people on management advantage (or jimmy houstan) just wanting to get some tape so that they can make money from hunting equipment firms.

NO!!!!

As I recall the original question on bowsite was "would you hunt The Sanctuary in Michigan free of charge.

Only after 70 or 80 people posted in teh affirmative was it revealed that this was a high fence place. The tide turned on that revelation.

I'm not trying to start too big of an argument, because quite frankly I could care less about high fenced hunting one way or the other.

But, throw whitetails out of the mix. What would you find acceptable, if anything, to "hunt" in an enclosure? Hogs? Rams? Fallow? Sika? Etc.

The reason I ask is that I can think of about 2 dozen people locally off the top of my head right now that have gone to places like Moody's and others to go after exotics. Given a little time, I bet I could name 40 or 50 people just in my county that I know of. So, even though there is a mass opposition on the internet to high fenced operations, I'd be willing to bet that there is far greater support for it (especially for exotics) than is expressed on here and other similar sites. Many won't speak up due to fear of the flaming that would take place.

Kind of funny, but there is a guy over at A.T. who recently posted up about his hog hunt at Moody's and surprisingly, there was a lot of praises given to him.

Just throwing it out for opinions.

I was talking about Moody Meats in Avon. They sell organic beef and free range chicken. They`re part of Moody Meats in Ladoga, the meat cutters for the area farmers.

But nope, I wouldn`t hunt a pen. Doesn`t matter what the game is.