This crap makes me nearly ashamed to admit I'm from the state of Kentucky. This place is in Barren County, Kentucky. I live in a bordering county. The guy in the wheelchair comes to a stock sale (cattle) I attend each week. I always felt sorry for him until this garbage.

Some of you may disagree with me and I am usually slow to anger, but this mess is disgusting: http://www.fallentimberhunts.com/

I love the "pictures of bucks to be hunted this season" page! Then below that they have the audacity to state "For a chance at one of the trophys above book your hunt now"!

Hell, why not save some gas and just call them? Imagine that conversation..."Hey, I wan't the buck on the far bottom left of your menu page but I want him to age another two years...I'll pay for his feed and then just go ahead and send him to a taxidermist"


JMHO,

JohnTheGreek

They should at least not have pictures showing the bloody fence in the background. I do not disagree with all fenced hunting because life is just not that simple(i.e. large ranches and reserves). However, this is bad. I will rename this, Deer Shopping, as it does not resemble hunting in the least. I will take my little bucks earned outright over this mess.

Gee, a whole 100 acres!?! I'm not sure I can walk that much territory!

Oh well, someone can get their name in the SCI magazine now.

They look like they live in the yard!
A menu??? No wonder we get heat.

I hate it, but what scares me more is that this might be what is considered hunting in another 30-40 years...the way things are headed now. Gosh I hope I am wrong! All across the country, I see that hunting is rapidly becoming a rich mans sport....we are gradually gravitating towards a European style of hunting (rich folks only). Just look in mags such as Peterson's Hunting...check out all the ads for canned hunts on fenced ranches! Their chief deer hunting writer can't seem to take a buck unless it is on a fenced operation. I hate it...

The root of ALL evil?? Money.

200" = $15,000

FN in MT

AH little "Ralphie" has grown so much. I still remember when he was just a little fawn.
They become trophies so fast.

Sadly enough, folks will pay $15000 for a deer. Why not just call them up and have them ship you the mounted head, with the meat cut and wrapped?

MG

Someone tell me that they can't list these in the book.
I wonder if they would let me hand feed it before I shot it.

DISGUSTING. How can they even use the word "hunt" on their website? Notice that you have to "call for price and availability" on 200+ bucks. Genetically engineered bucks? I thought Mother Nature was in charge of that. I am sorry that Born To Hunt has to deal with this crap in his state.

I think these can be listed in the SCI books. Checkbook hunting at it's finest!

What heros! Here in Alberta Canada we hunt real pieces of land, not game farms!

I wonder if they double as a petting zoo. I can just hear Jeff Foxworthy, "Alright kids, stand back".

What kills me is that all of the "hunters" are wearing camo.

They don't appear too wild, coming right up to the fence and all. Notice the landscaped bushes in the backgraound of some of the shots. Maybe what they do is drop them off "in the wild" and shoot them as they follow the truck back to the house like a lost puppy. The squirrels in my back yard in the city here appear more wild than those deer! Like choosing a lobster from the tank at a fancy restaurant.

Haven't figured out yet how to tenderize horns, seems like pretty proud prices for some mangy old bucks.

Even worse,

I live not too far from this stockfarm. The VP at our local bank married a retired trooper and over dinner the VP related this story to me a few weeks ago.

It seems that one of our local hunters came into the bank not long ago and floated a LOAN for 18,000.00 to go to this "ranch" and shoot what he thinks will be a new KY state record whitetail. It has been his lifelong dream to hunt and kill a state record deer and now he has that chance.

I can see going in debt for Africa, but a damn WHITETAIL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And so it goes...........................JJ

I was in Texas last weekend and a "hunter" there paid $30,000 for a 200+" buck.

Someone should go cut their fence, but I guess it wouldn't matter, they would never leave the feed trough. i wonder if they let them in the house on cold nights?

quote:

Originally posted by Hank H.:
All across the country, I see that hunting is rapidly becoming a rich mans sport....we are gradually gravitating towards a European style of hunting (rich folks only).

Hi there.

Agree with all the sentiments expressed here regarding 'hunting' by menu BUT for a man who is more impressed by inches than by the hunt - go for it!! I guess the fact that such ranches exist mirrors the lengths some 'trophy' hunters are prepared to go to in order to add to their 'stamp' collection. Each to their own - but not for me.

Hank - I highlighted your comment simply to reassure you that it really aint as you think over here.

In almost every country in western europe it is possible to hunt pretty much as much as you want, in the style that floats your boat - for very limited expenditure.

Sure, there are farms selling trophies at ridiculous prices. Strangely, the people using such facilities are the same types you get over on your side of the pond.

Rgds Ian

I see you are from the UK? Is that not the country where they recently banned FOX hunting?
One thing I do agree with some Europeans on though is the marksman "tests" that hunters are required to pass before issuance of a license. I forget which country that is....Sweeden I think? Take it easy.

Gee's some people will do anything for White Tail antlers. Some years back a friend shot a good sized Buck in CT about 1.5 inchs short of the B+C min. As nice a buck I ever saw, and he took him on a 100 acre piece of land that he owns. Hunted the whole season for a shot. That Kentucky place is just hunting porn, not my cup of tea.

That is a damn joke. Heck I just live about 30 minutes from there. I believe I know them.

There is a guy that raises some really big deer right up the road from my ex-girlfriends which is over in Barren county and the land looks just like that and I know he was selling them for a lot of money. Guess he is selling some to this Rondal and Connie England. Rondal England sounds real famaliar.

I believe I will either call them or stop by and tell them how big of a joke this is.
This is Pathetic.
Heck we got about a hundred acres that actually has wild deer on it. I'll let you hunt for a lot less than that.

I can't imagine calling it a hunt on 100 acres. They will get a ton for a 200 in. buck, since a 4 year old 200 will sell for 10-15000 as a breeder. My opinion is that whitetail hunting was pretty much screwed up the day the B&C measured the first one. From that point on it became a competition, hunting should not be a competitive sport. In 1988 we had a 234 B&C whitetail killed on our farm, it was sold for $6000 and they provided two replicas of it. It doesn't show up anywhere in Missouri's books, but i'm sure someone got their place in the record books with it.

There are $20,000 elk, $20,000 whitetail, and $20,000 mule deer.

This guy on 100 acres is no different than any of the other assholes out there.

If you don't support him someone will.

these places should be banned from existance i don't care that they shoot deer in a crate but these places will lead to diseases that will spread to wild deer and wipe out wild deer populations,may not be tomorrow but it will happen.

This will probably piss a few people off, but hell, I tend to do that anyway. While I have no problem with a registry of fine game animals that meet a certain criteria as to size, quality etc, I do have a very big problem with also including the name of the person who either shot the animal, or claims to have shot the animal. The sport of hunting has been raped and priced out of the hands of the average man due to wealthy individuals stroking their ego, by getting their names in "the book". What started out as possibly a good idea has turned into a status symbol for the rich and famous.
Paul B.

Thanks for posting the info, it is eye opening.

Also let me say I agree with everyone here that it's not hunting. It truly is harvesting a deer, in the same sense as when I go harvest a live Christmas tree each year (but I think getting the tree is more difficult....and don't turn your back on a wounded scotch pine for a second).

However, it is entrepreneurship at its best, and my hat's off to a good old boy for making some money off of 100 acres of farmland in Kentucky. I don't see slaughter of the deer there as too different from an elk farm near me, where a group of us will go to shoot a cow elk for meat (these are shot in a pen, picked up on a loader, quartered, and given to the purchasers). I'm told getting an elk with a bolt-gun in the head (cattle slaughter device) is hard.

I thought SCI was careful not to allow high fence animals in the general record books.
If it's true they allow that, that's a reason not to be a member.

And to clarify, no I wouldn't hunt there ever.

Garrett