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Not sure why there was a need for "in defense of"?


JG,

really impressive deer!

Here's another low fence old fellow. Low fence, La Salle County, Texas.

Deer on the left:



But once he ran the other buck off, he was huffing and puffing and let it all hang out.




The hardest thing about hunting in Texas is finding a place to hunt. There are lots of opportunities other than high fence places if one makes a bit of effort to ask around and look.

The habitat below is no high fence, by far my favorite placed I have ever hunted. When the Eagle Ford shale boom hit, the hunting was shut down as a condition of the oil lease. Really miss this place and the family that lived there. Magical place, wonderful people and great times. The wait for a spot to open up to hunt there was years. There are many incredible hunting opportunities on leases, but the best ones may only have a spot open up every few years or longer. Out of staters usually will never even hear of these properties. They are nowhere to be found on the internet. There are B&C eligible deer deliberately not reported to prevent poaching and/or to prevent the lease prices going up.



Same ranch, low fence, all native deer. Nothing done other than keeping folks off of the trigger until they reach 7.5 years old, except for the culls. Very representative of the property's typical deer resulting from basic management concepts.