ORIGINAL: davidmil

I agree, there are probably P& Y bucks everywhere, it's just that some places have a lot more of them. The proof of that is "The Books of records". That's why people from the TV shows flock to Iowa, Missouri, Illinois etc every year. It's why they don't flock to places like NY, Md etc. Your chances are considerably better in some places. It's not the hunters, it's genetics, hunting pressure or lack there of, etc. You know the old saying, "you can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear". Well there are sows ears. How many big buck, big rack hunting shows do you see from Florida, or Md, or WVa. Check the books of some of these states. In decades they haven't scored the bucks some of these states produce in a year. So you can say there are book bucks everywhere(Florida would tell you you nuts) but in many states they only come along very rarely and then of lesser quality than the average in other places. So you can be as outspoken as you want about people crying no big bucks, but unless you've hunted these places you don't understand. Yes you hunt public land just like many of us do. If you're run over or seeing book bucks every year consider yourself fortunate. It's not that you're a better hunter than a lot of people, you're just fortunate to live in a big buck country.