I’m not interested in high fencing our property. Couldn’t afford it if I wanted. I would be interested in deterring the deer to cross a power line that neighbors blast everything adjacent to us. Would an electric fence work? I’d have to run it about half a mile. If I could condition the deer to cross at another area of our property, they could cross without getting blasted to hell, and continue to the other side. Anybody have any experience in doing something like this? If it would work, it’d be a heck of a lot less expensive. Can you even run a 8 strand ( or whatever height it would need to be) hot fence?


Just tossing around ideas.

Way more than that. There are 298 licensed deer breeders in Alabama currently. That doesn't include the non-licensed that breed and release into their own enclosures.

Hoer Contruction guy has one in South Talladega that is over 6,000 acres. I doubt that it the biggest.

For those trying to convince the "you're going to hell of you hunt inside of a high fence" guys that some enclosers are just the same as real hunting....you're wasting your time.

Years ago, when I was part owners in a high fence operation in Saskatchewan. (I had whitetail deer, elk and bison) I publicly offered a guy that was the most anti-high fence guy I've ever dealt with a free 200" Canadian deer hunt. He jumped at the chance and was all for it when it was free. He went and didn't kill a deer because he didn't see a big one on his trip. He came home with a totally different attitude. (yes there were numerous 200"+ bucks on the 1300-acre wooded property when he was there)

The bottom line is if you don't want to hunt inside of an encloser no one is making you. If you want to hunt inside of an encloser who give a phuck what the cuckholds think?

Who has that place now ?

And season dates

Why should the state have any say if they don’t own the land

I don't judge anyone wanting to hunt high fence. I do not care to see high fence deer kills being compared to low fence in regards to antler size. They are two different categories of deer.

I do not care if someone wants to hunt inside a high fence. What I do care about, is if someone puts a fence up right along my property line.

I could care less..i lived in one for nearly 2 years an its not for me for the most part..bug i tell you how it is in texas..an ill use the place i worked on as an example…we were one of many ranchesin the family of the people i worked for...the smallest in fact at3700 acres or so when i was there..they have expanded now an i believe are rockin on about 6000+ acres now..still the smallest tho…we implemented what they call “EXTREME” trophy management..we were one of 2 that focused primarily on the improvement of whitetail deer,rio grand turkey, and bobwhite quail..an boy..did we have alot of all 3…we maintained at around 1.5-2 deer per acre density an that is extremely high…an we were on a state managed deer management program. We operated with native south texas genetics and only native texas deer…no deer breeding..no genetic manipulation whatsoever from the outside…we operated 3 6 acre pens, we captured native bucks an put them in each pen with 15 does…this is standard practice throughout south texas and every real trophy ranch there tries to do it..most have to deer breed and make scentific deer on much smaller acreages…they are the small time peons. We spent around $25k a month on protein feed alone…not to mention our amenities being of the absolute highest quality, and we were and still are, tho im no longer affiliated with them….one of the highest quality private ranches that DO NOT sell paid hunts in south texas, staye biologists came and inspected our property every year…and we were involved with many research programs in partnership with the kleiberg wildlife institute along with other large private ranches..king ranch being another. Incredible wealth…. unbelievable amounts of money spent to grow these native deer to an age class that can be found nowhere else on earth consistently…and a trophy structure that has been decades in the making…with hundreds of 200in native deer being killed and a good many coming from properties that we managed….all that said….why…would we spend millions every year to improve these lands and create the highest quality habitat you cojld conceive…..an let some redneck with 5 acres next to us kill a 235in deer we have been waiting 7-10 years to kill…or worse…shooting a 175in 2yo that has the potential to be one of the largest native deer ever recorded…hypothetically…i mean…i get why they put up the fence…it aint my thing…but i get it.

CarbonClimber1, what made you give up that gig and move to Alabama?

Carbonclimber1 was just a ranch hand..i was not important or nothin..an i didnt make much money and had no benefits..i was technically just an intern. I was offered permanent employment..but it just wasnt for me

Because apparently your an idiot if you think you can do what you want on your land, or so I've been told on here!

Putting a fence around your property could lead to someone damming up the Alabama River, and we just can't have that!

Could you hunt it at all as a hired ranch hand?

Yes, we were allowed a management deer(150 or less..try to keep it in the 140’s) an we had to hunt does…guests never killed enough…febuary rolled around an all we did was shoot does..sounds great til your cleanin deer at 3am…it was fun til you had to loadem up an start guttinem.

It was incredibly game rich property. The amount of wildlife there is something most AL hunters can’t comprehend without experiencing first hand. The habitat was superb and only getting better last time I was there.

I did get to participate in pasture cleanouts..from property we bought that was already high fenced and we didnt want whatever they had in there cominglin with what we had…now that was fun…we were ordered to kill everything that moved at all costs…the only thing we didnt shoot were the very few exotics which consisted of a small group of oryx,3 blackbuck does, a couple fallow deer an a few axis as well….now..we layed waste in that place an i mean we did man drives..chasedem in pickup trucks🤷🏻…i mean…gotta do ma job…we got to shoot several decent deer in there..on on my wall com from there..he didnt score but 129 but hes like 26in wide an them chocolate mesquite antlers…there wudnt much left in that olace on account of the previous owners tried to shoot it out before they sold it..they left about 40 deer on a hundred acres or so…an i think i kilt 24 of them🤠

That depends on who you are. Taxidermist I know does all the white tails from a maybe 3k acre (I actually thinks it’s less) in West Central Alabama. Last time I was in there in January of 2021 or 2022 there were at LEAST 35 skull plates and antlers waiting to be done. Smallest was maybe 130”. They feed them well and have a breeding program going I’m sure. I don’t believe they grow 40 plus bucks that size in an enclosure that size without bringing in deer. They used to get trailers with bucks and does (mostly bucks I’d imagine) in the middle of the night from Texas, Ohio, Illinois etc. every year. At least that’s what their farm manager told my buddy.

People with the money to buy multiple thousand acre parcels and fence them (and keep them up, a significant cost in itself) are subject to different enforcement than you and I.

Yes. Yes you can. Ride out to Pleasant Hill and look at the electric fence they put around their crop fields. Two strands at 10 and 40” and another outside that at 18” (guesses on heights). I’m sure that’s not cheap but if you’re trying to stop migration on something a mile or less I’d say it’s VERY doable. I don’t know if they have a power pole and meter on every field or if they’re using some solar powered boxes but C would tell you. It’s been EXTREMELY effective. Told me fencing one farm on the road back to 41 made enough difference in yield year over year to pay for fencing everywhere they put it so far.