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Marty,

You have a good point ! Most animals most bigger ones acutually don't have a fixed teritory for example kudu or shall I say most browsers. They move behind the food so there is nothing from stopping them to go into another property and making a new owner very happy especially when it is expensive game.

Small game like steenbok do have a fixed teritory. Now Marty I can maybe try and convince you that fenced hunting is still hunting depending on the property. Proper ranches are big enough that you would never see the fence most game in that property didn't even exist there naturally in numbers and some species has even been introduced. Safaris of 30 days plus are a thing of the past no-one has got the time or the money. In the old days without fences hunters would trek from region to region with some places not even spotting a animal in a whole day.

Today game is concetrated and there is actually a bigger population of game in RSA than there ever was before white man set foot in Africa this has been done with proper game managemnet and everyone trying theuir best to look after their game. Without fencing there would be poaching and just plain anarchy where pople would clash with the animals. RSA as a country is just not big enough to sustain animal and man in one big environmnet.

YOu have a betetr chance of picking up a great kudu trophy than hunting somewhere where there are no fences you get value for your money I mean you pay $300 per day sure some people can afford it and don't care but what about the guy who can just make it for one trip in his lifetime that week that he is going to spend he would at least get 5 animals and decent one's too.

The best I can do for you in RSA 48 000 Hectares next to the Kruger Park with no border fence and that being a huge peive of land where game roam free in and out of the park. Even there we would have a bigger struggle to find a 55" kudu compared to a proper game ranch of around 5000 hectares. A lot of people will tell you how big 5000 hectares is and how easy you can get lost.

As for the watherholes and shooting game at it I have only shot warthogs at the water and that will stay that way with only warthogs.

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