RE: Hunting Contest
The problem I have with a country wide deer hunting contest is that the bigger weight deer are all in the northern states if you go by weight. We have weighed does for years and 143 lbs is the largest we have ever seen and a 220 pound buck is the biggest we usually see. Antler wise the Texas or Illinois and contiguous states usually have the largest rackedbucks, so any kind of contest should be regionally. The largest buck I have seen in years was probably a 154 gross and the state record is less than 200 I think. Now if you go by total poundage the southern areas we might be in there, I know one guy that shot 46 legal deer a couple of years ago.