Wingbar, Im sure you just missed my point. For arguments sake I said yes, captive bred deer enjoy many perks. But I think its easy to prove that where wild deer meet that same criteria, they grow big too. Lower herd densities is the wild equivalent to selective breeding, aka natural selection and pure genetic pools. Age is age. Nutrition is also self explanatory. Stress, or the lack of it, comes with age and the availabilty of cover. The difference is, in captivity we as farmers supply these things, in the wild its often by chance. So it goes that the trophy animal is also sometimes by chance. As a deer farmer AND a taxidermist, I see it successfully each year, both methods.

Heres to hoping it happens for you, too. Good luck to you, wingbar.