***Did you even think about what you wrote when you made your post? I said IN TEXAS that 8000 acres is not a big ranch. I certainly DID NOT SAY that it wasn't big enough to grow big bucks and ESPECIALLY if it is high fenced. I've hunted down in south Texas, as well as the hill country north and west of San Antonio, since the early 70s so I think I know a little bit about raising big deer down there. My Mom still lives down there and Dad and I hunted down there until a couple years before he died in San Antonio on 9/11/11, just five days shy of his 89th birthday. How many times have you been down there? Also, the county I live in over here is one of the biggest at 1833 square miles (1,173,120 acres)! Heck, our State Game Area right outside of town covers 45,000 acres just by itself. It also amazes me to read the other post about David Morris shooting more deer than allowed down in Texas as if the guy is a convicted poacher or something. I'd bet the poster doesn't even know how many deer a person can legally shoot on a license down there! David Morris is a dang nice guy that is originally an Alabama native and didn't even move down to Texas until well into his career to do what he loves to do and that is to see and shoot big deer. That's sort of like every one of us on this Forum I would imagine.