Reddit reviews Beyond Fair Chase: The Ethic and Tradition of Hunting

While it's low fence some of those ranches are HUGE and they manage deer more like a private reserve. They don't stop deer from coming and going but they feed and cull for antler genetics. The low fence designation is to make it clear that it's different than a fair chase deer.

Some low fence operations will buy big bucks from high fence and breeding operations and release them - so it's not really a wild population. EDIT - learned this is now illegal in TX from Griefers below.

http://www.huntfairchase.com/

Also - I suggest this book to all hunters: https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Fair-Chase-Tradition-Hunting/dp/1560442832/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=fair+chase&qid=1574516524&sr=8-1

tl;dr TX is weird.

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Edited to note that it's illegal to release deer for non-high fence hunts in TX.

2007 law:



Sec. 43.361. RELEASE SITES. (a) A release site onto which breeder deer are liberated must be surrounded by a fence not less than seven feet in height that is capable of retaining deer at all times under reasonable and ordinary circumstances.

(b) The owner of a release site is responsible for ensuring that the fence surrounding the release site and infrastructure associated with the fence are in a condition to retain deer as provided by Subsection (a).