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<blockquote data-quote="Brute 23" data-source="post: 1607673" data-attributes="member: 6291"><p>A lot has to do with the food source. There are exceptions like the some in hill country and places but you put the right food source, and some age, to most of the deer in Texas and you will produce good deer both horns and body weight.</p><p></p><p>Deer can vary drastically in a 10 mile stretch. A lot of times you see people say our deer never get over this big, no matter if its horns or body weight, but that is due to the hunting pressure. Most of these people are killing 2.5 and 3.5 year old deer and the 4-4.5s are not the top of the gene pool. The top deer in the gene pool was shot at 2.5-3.5 because he was already exceptional at that point.</p><p></p><p>I still have people with in mile of some places we hunt that are in their late 60s,have lived there all their life, and swear the genetics will not produce a certain size deer. They continue to shoot the first 2.5-3.5 year old, 8pt, deer they see. We have 140-150 class deer with kickers and all kinds of stuff not even a mile away.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brute 23, post: 1607673, member: 6291"] A lot has to do with the food source. There are exceptions like the some in hill country and places but you put the right food source, and some age, to most of the deer in Texas and you will produce good deer both horns and body weight. Deer can vary drastically in a 10 mile stretch. A lot of times you see people say our deer never get over this big, no matter if its horns or body weight, but that is due to the hunting pressure. Most of these people are killing 2.5 and 3.5 year old deer and the 4-4.5s are not the top of the gene pool. The top deer in the gene pool was shot at 2.5-3.5 because he was already exceptional at that point. I still have people with in mile of some places we hunt that are in their late 60s,have lived there all their life, and swear the genetics will not produce a certain size deer. They continue to shoot the first 2.5-3.5 year old, 8pt, deer they see. We have 140-150 class deer with kickers and all kinds of stuff not even a mile away. [/QUOTE]
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