Selling Our Hunting Heritage

Captive Game Operations
Selling Our Hunting Heritage
To Out-Of-State Interests

It's no surprise that North Dakota High Fence Operators oppose the measure that would end shooting captive deer, elk, and exotic mammals penned inside escape proof pastures. What ought to surprise North Dakotans is the source of their funding.

Shooting Gallery Operators raised $84,000.00* from Out-of-State interests to defeat the Fair Chase Measure.

The figures below speak volumes about the direction High Fence Shooting Operations plan to take our hunting heritage.

Do we protect public hunting, or do we destroy that heritage by selling it to the highest bidder?

*Financial information on file with the Secretary of State

AMOUNT	Out-of-State Special Interest
$20,000.00	White Tail Deer Farmers of Ohio Orrville, Ohio
$15,000.00	North American Deer Farmers Lake City, MN
$15,000.00	Whitetails of Wisconsin** Turtle Lake, ND
$10,000.00	Iowa Whitetail Deer Association Clear Lake, IA
$10,000.00	Missouri Whitetail Breeders Association Brumley, MO
$5,000.00	Whitetails of Oklahoma Inc Skiatook, OK
$5,000.00	Pennsylvania Deer Farmers New Tripoli, PA
$1,500.00	Illinois Deer Farmers Association Danville, IL
$1,500.00	New York Deer & Elk Farmers Akron, NY
$1,000.00	Minnesota Deer Breeders Association Rice, MN
Total: $84,000.00

**Whitetails of Wisconsin lists a North Dakota address on the disclosure form

More of Our Hunting Heritage For Sale To The Highest Bidder Below

The owner of the elk pictured below advertizes his North Dakota Shooting Gallery as a game preserve. His web site guarantees 100% success with no hunting license required. The owner of this operation gives his client a bill of sale for the elk after the client kills the animal inside his escape proof pasture.

The price for 54 captive big game animals shot inside this operator's kill pasture and proudly posted to his web site* to lure in additional clients: $324,000.00.** (Not all the elk pictured below are included in the total. Not all the elk pictures posted on this high fence operator's web site were included on this page)

This is rampant commercialization of our hunting heritage.

*Source: Photo Gallery Link on the operator's web site.

http://www.redbutteelk.com/photogallery.htm

**Source Rate Page on the operator's web site:

http://www.redbutteelk.com/rates.htm

http://www.redbutteelk.com/

430 Herd Sire (Not Included in the Total)	384 SCI Points $7,500.00
420 (Not Included in the Total)	327 SCI Points $4,500.00
340 SCI Points $4,500.00	396 SCI Points $7,500.00
360 SCI Points $6,000.00	354 SCI Points $6,000.00
362 SCI Points $6,000.00	360 SCI Points $6,000.00
243 SCI Points $???????	346 SCI Points $4,500.00
330 SCI Points $4,500.00	341 SCI Points $4,500.00
356 SCI Points $6,000.00 348 SCI Points $4,500.00	360 SCI Points $6,000.00
329 SCI Points $4,500.00	343 SCI Points $4,500.00
331 SCI Points $4,500.00	346 SCI Points $4,500.00
383 SCI Points $7,500.00	381 SCI Points $7,500.00
394 SCI Points $7,500.00	338 SCI Points $4,500.00
424 SCI Points $15,000.00	370 SCI Points $6,000.00
362 SCI Points $6,000.00	360 SCI Points $6,000.00
370 SCI Points $6,000.00	360 SCI Points $6,000.00
384 SCI Points $7,500.00	361 SCI Points $6,000.00
421 SCI Points $15,000.00	353 SCI Points $6,000.00
477 SCI Points $15,000.00	340 SCI Points $4,500.00
371 SCI Points $6,000.00	385 SCI Points $7,500.00 312 SCI Points $???
339 SCI Points $4,500.00	373 SCI Points $6,000.00
355 SCI Points $6,000.00	330 SCI Points $4,500.00
427 SCI Points $15,000.00	348 SCI Points $4,500.00
389 SCI Points $7,500.00	349 SCI Points $4,500.00
362 SCI Points $6,500.00	331 SCI Points $4,500.00
374 SCI Points $6,000.00	Management Bull $?
385 SCI Points $6,000.00	6 X 6 $3,500.00
372 SCI Points $6,000.00	6 X 6 Management Bull $3,500.00