You can't make generalizations about this stuff. I've seen pen raised birds that were so lazy you had to walk up and kick them. It was not very "sporting" by most people standards but then again that was not that groups main priority. I've also seen pen raised birds that were not far off from wild birds. How they are raised can effect how they fly.
Same with high fences. There are some places that the deer are like pets and you pretty much just pick them out like furniture. Don't be mistaken, there are high fence places where bucks die of old age because they are so elusive. Again it goes back to how those deer are being raised.
People always want to justify their way as the right way. I hear the same nonsense from croaker vs lures, bows vs rifles, inshore vs offshore, so on and so on. In reality if more people would spend more time doing both they would realize there is not as much difference as they think.
Bragging about killing a monster pet out of a high fence to me is just as bad as bragging about killing deer with a bow, not over bait. No matter how you are doing it... if you are doing it to impress others you are doing it for the wrong reason.
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