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500nitro,

You can tell these guys as much as you want, that high fences are only so effective, but nowhere near 100%. Most wild game cam get through them especially if harassed or stressed.

Talking about Water Valley, I once did an experiment. I had a German visitor that wanted to hunt in late Spring, when most of the wild deer ie fallow and maybe reds have dropped their antlers. So went to WV to look for chital or rusa. The chital were very wild, not any different from a herd in the wild. But one day, per my experiment they were near a corner of a fence, and ran off in that direction. Per the "experts" that should mean they milled around, easy to shoot, "fish in a barrel", "duck shoot in a bucket" sort of bullshit, anyway, they ran a few metres along a fence, found a gap where the bottom wire was a few inches off the ground and bash, the whole herd went through. It wasn't to the outside. However could easily have been a perimeter fence, as indeed at one time the same fence was a perimeter fence.

Other examples, in South Africa, I have seen a warthog, just stroll up to a fence, duck under and push his way under the wire.

At home I have seen a doe hit a gate where the gap is only say three inches wide, and bash her way through. Another time a buck just squatted down and jumped a seven foot gate. From a squatting jump. A doe hit a fence at full speed and somersault over.

Back to WV, later my mate and I went back to hunt the chital seeing the scouting had all been done. Many of the stags were gone and no longer where they were previously. When my mate was hunting, we spotted a nice stag, where? Outside of the fence on the road verge ... however it ran away.

Now if you took a stag or a buck and raised it in small pens, then released it into a 50,000 acre fenced paddock, that animal is and acts really tame. It doesn't run away. If you released it into the wild, it won't run away.

That is called "canned" shooting.

Irrespective of a fence or not.

An animal raised in a 50,000 acre paddock acts entirely different and will ran at the smell or sight of man.

Anyone "with the smarts" who has actually been there, not on the internet, does not need to "infer" it, can work it out themselves.

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John aka NitroX

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