Doe Dumper-I have to agree although i do not know of the record deer in virginia they are probably very close if not slightly bigger than the record deer from Texas. Every state has some freak deer that get very big. However, on the whole the deer from Texas are much larger than deer from Virginia and most other places for that matter. You cannot argue that. Would you rather go on a trophy deer hunt in Virginia or Texas? (all expenses aside)

Hunter4life-What are you talking about about? Nobody ever mentioned what mule deer does you shot. In any case I even said that texas has smaller bodied deer than most places and to compare them to a mule deer which is a larger animal in the first place is unfair.

bigcountry- I think you are refering the practice of high fences. Some ranches have high fences for their whitetail deer. I do not hunt those ranches. I lease a 12,000 acre area of a 72,000 acre ranch. The biggest deer taken off that ranch scored 194. Almost every year somebody will shoot a 170+ buck off of it. I think this year alone there were over 300+ 160 b&c deer entered in the Los Cazadores Deer contest alone. In any case there are many many many more ranches without high fences than with high fences. To point out what one ranch does not show what everyone does.