What TX lacks in size they make up for in numbers and the licenses reflect that. On the standard license you can take at least 5 deer. Some counties allow more. And, if you want you can fill all the deer tags with does so if meat is your thing (which it is if you're concerned about body size), then TX is pretty generous. Face it if you understand basic math it isn't too hard to figure out that 5 100 pound deer will give you a lot more meat than a single 200 lb deer. Many of the ranches are really proud of their big bucks, but that can be said in all states look at what a landowner voucher in CO can cost, but many ranches in TX will let you take does for free since they try to manage the herds and care more about antlers than meat.

Not trying to turn this into a TX vs everybody else thread. As a matter of fact despite the fact that I'm now working in TX I maintain my CO residency purely for resident hunting licenses. But I'm only doing so until I draw my bull tag for unit 2. I'm sitting on 21 points and that should get it next year. After that I'll switch my residency to TX so I can hunt year round for a $50 license. Not many places you can do that.

Each state has its pluses and minuses. In keeping with the OP's original question, those of you that say you will head to the high country aren't thinking about surviving the winter if everything goes belly up. Even the Indians headed to low winter range. If you think you can survive way up high, you're probably misguided. Hence my comment about heading to a southern river bottom. Much easier to survive since the winters are mild and water is handy. But, to each his own since it is a rhetorical question at best.