I thought about that too - advertising Arkansas as the Big Deer state - LOL, anyone who's hunted up in those hills knows that you can go all day and not see a deer - several days in a row ! Low deer densitites, high public land hunting pressure .......... my guess ? This buck came off an old 40 acre home stead near a small town where no one ever thought to hunt. Kid comes along and hunts where he's not really suppose to see a big deer and there you go !
This buck has serious age - and for a non agricultural area to have mass like that ? I'm betting he lived near a cattle farm and ate all grain and liked sorgum blocks