Last I checked the threads belong to HNI, so they belong to all of us.[8D]

To your point, I honestly don't believe that the hunter in FL is hunting on the same playing field as the hunter in IL if they are both hunting 3.5 year old deer. The reason for that is in FL there is far lesshospitable habitat to support whitetailsland and the bag limits are incredibly liberal (a buck a day last I checked). Whereas in IL the habitat is much more conducive to holding and supporting whitetails and the bag limits are far more stringent allowing for more 3.5 year olds to grow.

That doesn't make the 3.5 year old buck any less difficult to hunt, but you have more opportunity to trip one up if there are more of them around.