OK, deer fight with their feet and antlers not their chests and stomachs. A deer with a bigger rack will more often than not win the fight. Knife to a gun fight, ever heard the saying? It's about the weapon used not the muscle. Also, deer with the genetics to produce large racks almost always are larger in body.

So, instead of suggesting better management of land providing nutrition which currently IS NOT EQUAL to midwest states (despite you thinking the deer have enough food to grow to be impressive) we should start shooting more deer.

So many other options and you can't see them. I suggest this to you. Save some money and go someplace where there is a QDM system in place. Hunt there and see the benefits of an AR along with other practices which DON'T include shooting all the young deer before they get a chance to grow. It's this or continue to gripe about what you are not going to change.