As a rule, yes. However, South Texas deer are considerably larger than their northern cousins in the Hill Country.

I hear its because of the oak leaves....

I know The deer north of Childress yall are talking about being big bodied. The GW up there ( great guy) told me, he didnt know why but there is a strain of deer in that area that resemble Kansas deer ( some with double throat patches and different look about them) he said they are just noticeably larger.

Just looking at the pics on here you can obviously tell which deer are from up north. They look like damn cows. I drive around south and central texas all week, and I've never seen one and thought now that's a big bodied deer. Maybe the racks are big but not the bidies. I can honestly say south Texas deer have nothing on north Texas deer.

I have hunted North and South Texas. All of the 200+lb deer I have taken have come from South Texas with the heaviest being 242 lbs. My vote is South Texas.

Panhandle.
Seen some whoppers; Though. Kent, Borden and Scurry Counties.
With that said.

Yelp my ranch borders Texas. I'd say more Kansas genetics.

All alafafa, corn, cotton and wheat country.

we have had to check station deer for 15 plus years so I know my weights are accurate.

That's a density issue. Some of the native HF hill country ranches are producing 200 plus pound deer.

Wow, that's interesting

We hunt in Wellington (very near Memphis) and have mature doe that push 200lbs and bucks that push 300lbs....especially when peanuts were being farmed heavily. Most seem to be in the 250lb range these days. This is the only pic on my phone of this doe that my daughter shot, but I know it was pushing that 200lb mark. I see mature doe all the time that you would swear was a mature buck if you weren't able to see their head. I shot a buck a few years back in Turkey (also close to Memphis) that was 280lbs. It's the deer in my signature. Deer are just big bodied in that part of the state.

We have exactly this in Wellington, which is 30 miles north of Childress.....double throat patch deer and two different strains of deer. Some have a very orange tone to them and are the bigger of the two most often. Not sure if that is the resemblance of Kansas deer or not.

Dressed or live weights on the ones posted?

Live weights.

This one dressed a little over 200 and was not near what he had been. He had gotten old and we had changed from peanuts to cotton in his area.


Collingsworth county btw

We've been hunting the far N TX Panhandle for almost 20 years. The avg mature whitetail has field dressed 175lbs, with many going over 200, up to 218lbs field dressed. They are most definitely a KS strain whitetail, and as someone mentioned previously, the bucks with the orang'ish tint to them tend to be the bigger, longer haired strain.

I would say the panhandle because I think they are a Kansas strain. There are some huge bodied Mule deer up there also, buddy of mine killed a Mulie north of Wayside next to the Palo Duro state park that weighed 265 field dressed at the Happy,Texas locker plant.

I have hunted both deep south Texas and the panhandle. From my experience, the panhandle gets the nod on body weights. There are outliers in every region that make you question things, however on average, the panhandle deer a just larger bodied.