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<blockquote data-quote="Beardeddeer91" data-source="post: 1485395" data-attributes="member: 105926"><p>I worked at one of the larger breeding ranches in Texas as an undergrad in college, and I can tell you from experience that even the males there were quite tame. The "spooky" ones would let you get 50 yards before they would walk away. I took pictures with a 320" buck who was particularly fond of his daily back scratches! </p><p>Almost all of the fawns were bottle raised. The males were kept in pens based on age (1,2,3 and breeder bucks were kept by themselves), and does were kept in pens based on the date they were artificially insemenated (that made sure that 250 does weren't having fawns at the same time). The males that weren't sold or intended as breeder bucks were released in to two different large enclosures (700-1000 acres each) a month before "hunters" showed up after they were all scored.</p><p>While it is true that the buck became more "wild" after that month, they were by no means free range deer. They were dependent on food from the feeders, and were very easy to pattern to those feeder. This meant that a guide would know which bucks were going to which feeder and already knew the score of the majority of them. The feeder would go off about 7:00 am and less than a minute later there would be 20 bucks in the 200-300" range at that feeder. Most of the people "hunting" an very little experience and were there for a good time. We always said that they were "shopping for wall furniture."</p><p></p><p>I learned a lot working there but I decided after working at a high-fenced operation that I would never go a high fenced hunt. The challenge of the pursuit isn't there and those challenges are one of the best things about hunting for me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Beardeddeer91, post: 1485395, member: 105926"] I worked at one of the larger breeding ranches in Texas as an undergrad in college, and I can tell you from experience that even the males there were quite tame. The “spooky” ones would let you get 50 yards before they would walk away. I took pictures with a 320” buck who was particularly fond of his daily back scratches! Almost all of the fawns were bottle raised. The males were kept in pens based on age (1,2,3 and breeder bucks were kept by themselves), and does were kept in pens based on the date they were artificially insemenated (that made sure that 250 does weren’t having fawns at the same time). The males that weren’t sold or intended as breeder bucks were released in to two different large enclosures (700-1000 acres each) a month before “hunters” showed up after they were all scored. While it is true that the buck became more “wild” after that month, they were by no means free range deer. They were dependent on food from the feeders, and were very easy to pattern to those feeder. This meant that a guide would know which bucks were going to which feeder and already knew the score of the majority of them. The feeder would go off about 7:00 am and less than a minute later there would be 20 bucks in the 200-300” range at that feeder. Most of the people “hunting” an very little experience and were there for a good time. We always said that they were “shopping for wall furniture.” I learned a lot working there but I decided after working at a high-fenced operation that I would never go a high fenced hunt. The challenge of the pursuit isn’t there and those challenges are one of the best things about hunting for me. [/QUOTE]
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