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"We need, in the interest of the community at large, a rigid system of game-laws rigidly enforced, and it is not only admissible, but one may almost say necessary, to establish, under the control of the State, great national forests reserves which shall also be breeding-grounds and nurseries for wild game; but I should much regret to see grow up in this country a system of large private game-preserves kept for the enjoyment of the very rich. One of the chief attractions of the life of the wilderness is its rugged and stalwart democracy; there every man stands for what he actually is and can show himself to be." Theodore Roosevelt |
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WELCOME TO THE HALL OF SHAME
The High Fence Shooting Gallery operators claim to offer the equivalent of a Fair Chase hunt. Take a close look at the sample pages off their web sites below. Most high fence operators guarantee 100% success on trophy quality bucks and bulls. Anyone who has ever hunted deer and elk in the wild will tell you that success measured by killing a trophy animal is a rare experience. The Shooting Gallery operators can offer a 100% guarantee because they have the target animal penned inside an escape proof pasture waiting for the shooter. A shooter can pick a specific antler score from one of the online price lists below before leaving home to shoot the designated animal inside the operator's fenced pasture. The higher the antlers score, the higher the price for killing the animal. Paying to shoot an elk or deer inside a fence is not hunting; it’s killing for the sake of killing, and that killing makes a mockery of the Fair Chase tradition passed down to us by Founding Conservationists like Theodore Roosevelt.
The best weapon anti-hunting
organizations have in their arsenal are the Canned Shooting
operations. High Fence shooting operations present the non-hunting
public with an image of hunters so sloppy, so lazy, and so unmotivated
by the actual experience of hunting, that they have to fence the animal
in an escape proof pasture in order to find it and kill it. Whether Fair Chase hunters like it or not, anti-hunting
organizations group Fair Chase hunters with the Canned Kill crowd and
there isn’t a thing we can do about it no matter how many times we
proclaim ourselves to be fair chase hunters. The High Fence Canned Killing crowd
wants it that way; they need the camouflage of legitimate Fair Chase to
hide what they are doing behind their fences.
Shooting Galleries like those listed below create
a poor
image of legitimate hunting in the mind of the non-hunting public. That image
affects every hunter in this state.
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The Shooting Gallery operators argue that the trophy
deer and elk they offer to the public are raised in as natural an
environment as free roaming deer and elk in the wild, that their animals
stay wild in spite of being raised in close proximity to the humans that
feed and water the animal. Their own advertising shoots down that
argument. The sample pages from the Sheyenne Whitetails web site below lists , “60
huge northern whitetail deer in a 20 acre natural environment.” |
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http://www.sheyennewhitetails.com/ranchnews.htm |
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Red Butte Elk Hazen, ND
Pretending they had a real hunt.
Click the picture to enlarge. (NOTE: It's hard to ignore the escape proof fence in the background.)
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Rates 5x5
Bulls............................$2,500 6X6
Bulls...........................$3,500 325-350 SCI Bulls............$4,500 351-375
SCI
Bulls...........$6,000 376-400 SCI
Bulls............$7,500 400 Plus SCI Bulls.............$15,000
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Cedar Ridge Elk Rhame, ND http://www.cedarridgeelk.com/ "WE GUARANTEE SUCCESS OR THE HUNT IS FREE!" “If you asked my hunters how many of them knew where the fence was when they shot their elk, you’d find out that almost all of them did not feel fenced in.” Letter to the Editor, Grand
Forks Herald Saturday, June 21, 2008
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6x6 Trophy Bull…….......…$6,500 5x5.....................................$4,000 6x6...........300-330.............$5,000 B/C*... .....360-390............$8,500 Larger Elk available upon
request.........$
call * B/C
(Boone & Crockett gross score) |
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Heavy Horns Shooting Preserve Fullerton, ND http://www.heavyhornsshootingpreserve.com/index.html    |
Pricing/Guidelines
All Harvests Sold SCI Gross Green Score
White Tail
up to 120 Gross:
$1,100.00
121-130 Gross:
$1,350.00
131-140 Gross:
$1,750.00
141-150 Gross:
$2,500.00
161-170 Gross:
$5,000.00
171-180 Gross:
$7,000.00
181-190 Gross:
$8,500.00
191-200 Gross:
$10,750.00
201-210 Gross:
$12,500.00
Elk
B&C Gross Green scores.
300-325 Gross:
$4,500.00
326-350 Gross:
$5,000.00
351-375 Gross:
$6,000.00
376-399 Gross:
$7,000.00
400-410 Gross:
$8,500.00
411 Plus Gross: Please Enquire |
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SWR Big Game Hunts Tolley, ND http://www.swrbiggamehunts.com/
(NOTE: Conducts "hunts" on 160 to 200 acres.) |
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Badlands Elk Ranch Grassy Butte, ND http://www.badlandshunt.com/ |
Rates for Elk Hunts 300-340---------Contact us for reduced rates! 341-370---------Contact us for reduced rates! 371-399---------Contact us for reduced rates! 400 plus---------Contact us for reduced rates!
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Killdeer Mountain Outfitters
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Our rates are based on the Safari Club International
(SCI) scoring system. They are as follows: 300-330 SCI…….$ 3,900.00 331-369 SCI…….$ 4,500.00 370-385 SCI…….$ 6,500.00 386-399 SCI…….$ 7,500.00 400 SCI Plus…… Price on request
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Little Valley Ranch Medina, ND http://little-valley-ranch.com/hunters.html
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CLICK TO VIEW FAIR CHASE MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS |
| A Captive Shooter Bull Operation Viewed From Space | ||||
| Selling Our Hunting Heritage | ||||
| Legislative History of Fenced Shooting in North Dakota | ||||
| Hall of Shame | ||||
| Fair Chase Members | ||||
| The Fair Chase Issue | ||||
| Initiative Language | ||||
| The Origin of Fair Chase | ||||
| Writer Curt Wells on Fair Chase | ||||
| The Montana High Fence Experience | ||||
| What You Can Do | ||||
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