Hi, I’m Bill Stewart - new to the forum, but have been viewing the talk threads for over a year. I have a question. Our family own a ranch in Llano Tx, we have approx 600 acres. On one side opposite the road is a large ranch that has deer proof fencing around it, been like that for about 20 years. On the other three sides is low fencing. Two sides of our property there are land owners who lease it out, these lands are heavily hunted and the leasers have placed their deer feeders/stands up against our fence. The other side of our property is a landowner who like us, only takes a few does, for eating every year. Over the last few years we have been talking about deer fencing the two heavily hunted sides, cutting off their supply. We have looked at some of the popular brands of wiring from several wire supply companies in central Texas. I asked one of them if a 20 wire, 8’4” foot high barb wire fence would work just as well, or why not? My thought process being, over the years I’ve always seen deer go either under or over a fence but not through a fence. The dealer looked at me and said he did not know, he then added that if/when the placed burned, instead of replacing the whole woven fence, a person may be lucky and replace the bottom (X) number of wires. I guess my question is can anyone provide me with reasons why not to go this route?