4100, I live in Texas and I have never lost an opportunity to high fences...in fact I would say they have opened doors to hunt during the off season for people that don't get to do a lot of hunting during the season (jobs, injuries, illness, family matters). Exactly how many acres do you hunt when you go out on a hunt....do you walk 600 acres, 2000 acres, 20,000 acres. The sizes of quite a few of high fenced areas here. You know that there are animals out there when you target an area...otherwise you would not be hunting there, right? Do you hunt over watering holes? You know animals will show up...right? Funny how you are quick to point out that Texas has all these high game fences and that they are spreading disease, but we have not had one case of CWD ever...and we have very high deer density...shouldn't that facilitate the spread? How can you show me, beyond a reasonable doubt, that those deer/elk caught CWD/TB from animals from a high fence area and not cattle? Come to think of it, I have lost a lot of hunting opportunities to hunt because of cattle ranches. I can't believe you were not tought better manners on how to treat others. To attack rupedog, when he did nothing to you...pretty tactless. You just seem to bash others without mercy if they do not think like you (but from reading your posts there doesn't seem to much thinking involved). You bash buther45 for not hunting big game, but you seem to be the expert on high game areas even though you have never hunted one. You might have been on or near one (one that was probably not managed well at all), but you still seem to lump all high fence areas and the people that hunt and or run them into one group, and know everything that goes on at these places. Pretty small minded of you. I am not talking about you, just your way of reasoning. It's really sad when arrogant self-richeous people like you try to speak for hunters everywhere.