I have absolutely no issues with a high fence operation. I think you will see more and more of them in the future, in particular in Alabama, simply because if you want to manage your deer you can't otherwise. The season and bag limits are too liberal. The required amount of real estate you would need in order to manage your deer under our current system is out of most rich people's price range and it's too much work. In particular if they just want to show up and hunt. They spend that money on a smaller tract, less maintenance and more money to move some good deer inside the fence, and pay a couple hands to work it.
That being said... I don't care how many acres and how tall the fence is.... you are shooting livestock at that point. I know someone that's got a couple thousand fenced and you pull up to the gate and many times there are deer standing on the other side. You punch in the key code. The gate opens and you drive on in. Deer still standing there. I usually stop the truck and let the gate close just behind me because I'm afraid one is going to run out and then I'm going to be the guy who let the deer run out and never hear the end of it.... "Remember that time ____ let the big shooter buck run out the front gate.... blah, blah, blah."
High fence operations are great for a few different groups of hunters: 1) The guy that can't grow anything bigger than a basket rack because his neighbors shoot everything they see - 2) A guy like Luke Bryan and 3) Everyone else that has no freaking clue how to hunt deer without the use of a food plot and/or feeder (most of you who are reading this).
No government employees were harmed in the making of this mess.
