ORIGINAL: Tazman
Nice looking rack, I have to say it amazes me the difference in size of deer, living in Va. it seems as though we have medium sized deer, the further south the smaller, the further north the larger. I know this doesn' t hold 100%, in Va. most mountain deer are small in comparison to those in the piedmont region where there is a lot of agricultural stuff, and I am sure that holds true in most states where the deer vary in size drastically depending upon where they are.
Actually that is a biological fact in regards to mammals. The further north of the equater you go the larger the animals (the colder the bigger). Part of nature' s way of forcing the fat animals to survive the cold and in the south you have to be thin to beat the heat. Kind of the same way with the different races of humans, the people that are native to the warmer climates are generally smaller and the folks from the north tend to be larger.