Fenced in? Dont think so.

I know a lot of people have a problem with fences. That is your right.
But there is very little animals in Africa that is kept in with High game fences, and almost none with cattle fences.
 
Watched the first video. That’s not much of a fence. An operator has quite the financial incentive to keep valuable animals like kudu contained so that video doesn’t mean much. I have no problem with a fence if the property is large enough and the practices within it are “proper”(I think the overwhelming majority of AH members don’t have a problem with fences per se, given those caveats). This topic has been beaten to death an almost innumerable amount of times.
 
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Watched the first video. That’s not much of a fence. An operator has quite the financial incentive to keep valuable animals like kudu contained so that video doesn’t mean much. I have no problem with a fence if the property is large enough and the practices within it are “proper”(I think the overwhelming majority of AH members don’t have a problem with fences per se, given those caveats). This topic has been beaten to death an almost innumerable amount of times.
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Agree. The first is not a game fence. The second is, but a bit lower than most I have seen in South Africa. On the whole, they work very well at keeping valuable assets on the correct property.
 
Well we had proper 8ft fences on my family farm, used to have no wild life at all and we put Impala and blesbuck on the property. We did not have our own Kudu, but we shot 2-3 every year. Cows and bulls. Even got a Bwb, ostrich, Red hartebeest and a Waterbuck. So the animals do move around.
 
Eland are well known for their ability to jump all but the highest fences.

Years ago, I watched a big, mature whitetail clear an 8' high fence in South Texas. I wouldn't have believed it had I not seen it. The doe he was tending tried to follow him but panicked at the last second and plowed straight into the fence.

Ed Z
 
I watched a kudu jump a 9 ft fence after taking a .300 WM in the boiler room.
 
One of my favorite "art in motion" things to watch is a deer jumping a fence from a side view.

I let a nice 8 point, 4-5 yr whitetail go just to let him jump the fence a few seasons ago. Early, Misty morning. Then I sat there finishing my coffee with a big dumb grin on my face.
 
I’ve seen kudu take a full height game fence as effortlessly as the one in the first video took the short fence.
The PH, after seeing my amazement, dryly stated, “no one owns a kudu bull, they go where they like”.
 
Vintageguy said:
I’ve seen kudu take a full height game fence as effortlessly as the one in the first video took the short fence.
The PH, after seeing my amazement, dryly stated, “no one owns a kudu bull, they go where they like”.
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Yeah, PH on my last hunt said basically the same. Said they've killed more than a few tagged kudu that have jumped onto their property.

Interesting about eland, he said they get in close and parallel to the fence before hopping over.
 
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