[Red Badger]

FLORIDA..... WE’RE UP TO OUR EARS IN DEERS...............

[hinckley buzzard]

Number of my friends here in Ohio go to West Virginia for their deer.

[ought-six]

Didn’t Michigan have a big outbreak of CWD not too long ago? Or, maybe it was Missouri.

[IndispensableDestiny]

There are plenty of quality deer in Maryland. Don’t come here, ok?

[Candor7]

Vermont.....in the Northeat Kingdom. Thats some whitetail deer country! They grow them big.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Eastern Shore of MD. Claw hammer and a bag of baby carrots is all you need.

[taxcontrol]

Here in Colorado, we have had a rough fire season with a lot of forest going up in wild fires. It will be interesting to see how this impact the dear and elk populations and harvests.

[Cold Heart]

Last I herd, Texas deer were small and it cost big bucks to hunt on private property.

I was given some alfalfa fed mule deer venison from Eastern Oregon, best venison I have ever had.

[DeFault User]

In North Carolina I used to have them wander through my yard doing a little grazing along the way.

[Dr. Sivana]

I’ve lived in both Wisconsin and Georgia. The serious hunters in Georgia head up to Michigan and Wisconsin for their deer hunting. The deer in Georgia are comparatively puny.

[Golden Eagle]

Want to bag a buck?

Well if you want to bag “a” buck, then Texas may indeed be the best place.

But if “size matters” and to most hunters it does, this list isn’t very good.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

My concern is CWD :
"Chronic Wasting Disease" (CWD) is a deadly illness in white-tailed deer and other members of the deer family " and is spreading into the South.
It was earlier seen in the Rockies among elk, years ago.
In the wild livestock, it is similar to :" Mad Cow Disease", and State Laboratories will generally test harvested deer, free of charge.

[EQAndyBuzz]

From my terrace I see bucks and their families every morning wandering the golf course. Golf carts go by and they don’t pay attention.

[Sequoyah101]

Unless you hunt on fenced ground in Texas it is more like shooting dogs.

Michigan has some monsters that look more like Mule Deer.

[Flatus I. Maximus]

My back yard. They aren’t rarely seen big game animals anymore, they’re frickin’ rabbits with antlers. They’ve become so numerous and so complacent around humans that you can practically walk up to one and kick it before it’ll move.

[Blueflag]

I eat what I shoot, so I have never gone for trophies. The medium deer here in GA are quite good to eat ;-)

Freezer is full, and gave some away. All good.

[TermLimits4All]

I agree with GA. I got 2 monster bucks this year on my property. Would post the pics but don’t know how on this forum

[USS Alaska]

I live in PA and while I still hunt deer, I stopped shooting bucks 15-20 years ago {doe taste way better, and I have enough mounted racks}.

My biggest is an 11 point, my best is only an almost perfect 8 point.

When I hunted bucks, anything less than an 8, I would nail the racks to an oak tree in the back yard and the squirrels would eat them {for the calcium}.

I butcher my own deer, so I only make steaks, back straps and ground meat.

I may make some jerky.

Young hunters can take all of the wall hangers, I'll just get some great eating doe.

There are still about a million deer hunters in PA and as long as I can, I will continue to be one.

[Bob434]

Big whitetails in both north east and Canada, Alaska too I would imagine. They gotta be big because of the cold I guess?

[Islander7]

Mississippi is over run with the rats with hooves.