Originally Posted by
super_hunt54
HA! I've had dogs bigger than Texas deer! Same for Florida deer too! Now granted some of them ranch raised stock deer get pretty big but a good many of those deer owe their genetic background to a Northern Bloodline! They are naturally small in ALL hotter climates. If you see a big bodied deer in Texas (and what I call big bodied is over 210 field dressed) then you can bet your bottom dollar that deer has a northern genetic line and somewhere CLOSE.
As far as the OP question. I'm with Pete. My big butt is hitting the hills either in Pa, TN, or CO.
Baloney and FYI there aren't that many deer killed anywhere that will dress out on a legal scale at 210#. Furthermore, there are plenty of big deer down there on low fence ranches that don't have a trace of northern genetics in them just like the ones I always hunted down in the brush country where a good 4 year old deer would dress out at 150# or more and that's more the norm in the upper part of the country too. Yes, there are some bigger bucks up north, but animals don't always read Bergmann's Rule relating to smaller sizes as you go south either.