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Farms in Iowa, not so long ago, had a lot of 40 acre fields. Sometimes even smaller. Wouldn't have been a tree left in the state if Iowa farmers had used wooden fences. Matter of fact, not sure I ever saw a wooden fence around a farm field of any size. But Iowa is west of the Mississippi, so it depends on where the West begins.

Except for split rail stacked fencing (which is mostly just seen around rural McMansions now-a-days), I've never seen a wood fence in GA either; plenty of bob-wire though...Geo

I've seen enough concertina wire from the Army and around prisons where I've visited clients to know I don't want to use one of my guns to push it out of the way; maybe a bangalore torpedo would work though.

I have and still do climb through barbed wire fences in Georgia and not a mark on any of my doubles from fences.I have shed plenty of blood though!Same deal with briars. Bobby

Cameron: THIS won't be fun

Drew,
No it definately wouldn't be fun with the mess it's got itself into and it certainly wasn't fun repairing the fence!

I've seen plenty of Bison at a distance, but when you stand along side of one, it's amazing how big they are. I didn't get too close to the one that broke through our fence, but I walked up close to one in a zoo, standing just inside it's enclosure years ago. I really was amazed at it's size!

Not to worry, the wolves'll eat right around that tangle of wire...Geo

Used to be some near here. It takes a heckuva fence to keep them in.

SRH

I'm thinking older guns from out West are like older cars from out West, more likely to not have suffered from moisture.

I too have suffered from barbwire branding. My first new gun ever was a 12ga. Rem 1100 at age 14. First time out squirrel hunting I put a nice 1" swervy scratch on the rear stock crossing through a section of wire on our land. To this day, 41 years later, that's the only scratch on that gun and I still wence when I look at it.

Speaking of elec fences, as a kid, one afternoon my grandpop sent me out to wash the bags on his old milk cow in getting her ready to be milked. She was tied to a fence post, and I made the big mistake of taking a pale of COLD water. I started splashing the water on her bags and she started dancing a bit. Instead of getting the hint, I kept at it and all of a sudden, she reared back on the rope and pulled the fence up out of the ground. Well she didn't stop at that and pulled three strands of hot wire over on top of me. I tried to flee from the wire but as I scrambled toward her to get away from the fence, she kept back peddling which kept that fence pulled on top of me. I ended up with stripes from head to tail, and had to get a hair cut because my hair had singed together in spots!