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Opinions, what area of Texas has the biggest bodied deer? #6096903 12/22/15 09:09 PM
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I I tend to think the north east upper and lower panhandle area. What say the masses?


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In the right parts of south texas they grow huge also.. seen some from Duval Co. that were giants

few spots on the Trinity river will push some big bodied deer out

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Panhandle along the Red River.

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Originally Posted By: fouzman
Panhandle along the Red River.


Keep going north. The Ag feilds north of dalhart, cactus, spearman etc.


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Biggest non protein fed doe I've seen my wife shot near de leon this year.



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Panhandle along the Red River.


Keep going north. The Ag feilds north of dalhart, cactus, spearman etc.


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Re: Opinions, what area of Texas has the biggest bodied deer? [Re: Navasot] #6096974 12/22/15 09:39 PM
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Originally Posted By: Navasot
In the right parts of south texas they grow huge also.. seen some from Duval Co. that were giants

few spots on the Trinity river will push some big bodied deer out



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Re: Opinions, what area of Texas has the biggest bodied deer? [Re: notamtchance] #6096985 12/22/15 09:45 PM
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As rule the extreme northern Panhandle will have larger bodied bucks on average, but parts of the Golden Triangle area can have very large bodied bucks on well managed ranches in very wet years. I have seen 219-220 lb field dressed bucks come out of that area in those years.


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Re: Opinions, what area of Texas has the biggest bodied deer? [Re: stxranchman] #6097008 12/22/15 09:55 PM
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Our on the hoof body weights for bucks range from 200-250 - south texas


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Re: Opinions, what area of Texas has the biggest bodied deer? [Re: notamtchance] #6097161 12/22/15 11:31 PM
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The further north you go the bigger, Bergmann's rule.

Re: Opinions, what area of Texas has the biggest bodied deer? [Re: notamtchance] #6097173 12/22/15 11:39 PM
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I dunno, but Ive seen 200lb doe taken near Memphis and the heaviest WT I've ever shot was near there as well, 240lb tiny basket 8pt.

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Originally Posted By: John Humbert
I dunno, but Ive seen 200lb doe taken near Memphis and the heaviest WT I've ever shot was near there as well, 240lb tiny basket 8pt.


200 lb doe? Wow - would love to see a pic of that - cannot imagine


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The deer up there gorge on wheat and corn - it's all cultivation.

Re: Opinions, what area of Texas has the biggest bodied deer? [Re: John Humbert] #6097287 12/23/15 12:59 AM
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Originally Posted By: John Humbert
I dunno, but Ive seen 200lb doe taken near Memphis and the heaviest WT I've ever shot was near there as well, 240lb tiny basket 8pt.


I'm from Savannah, the largest doe I ever killed was 178#, I have also killed trash bucks over 200# but then again that's not in Texas so it don't really help the thread. However I now run a ranch outside of Del Rio and feed protein year around and only occasionally push a mature buck to 200 on a good year.

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Originally Posted By: John Humbert
I dunno, but Ive seen 200lb doe taken near Memphis and the heaviest WT I've ever shot was near there as well, 240lb tiny basket 8pt.

Live or dressed weight?


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I've seen a few huge deer come from Grayson county and there is about 2500 acres of creek bottom not far from here that throws out huge bodied bucks every year. Age is the common denominator on these 2 spots.


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Talking natural....no high fence, no protein, just natural deer....the eastern side of the panhandle basically from Childress to the OK border around Perryton. The biggest of that area I think are in the Clarendon/Memphis area and also up toward Shamrock.

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Talking natural....no high fence, no protein, just natural deer....the eastern side of the panhandle basically from Childress to the OK border around Perryton. The biggest of that area I think are in the Clarendon/Memphis area and also up toward Shamrock.


Okla dept of wildlife use to check and weight every deer up until 3-4 years ago. You could look at the log book. I've seen whitetail as big as 290 dressed in cimmeron county. I'd say average is 230-40 on the hoof.

Seen some pretty big deer hanging in strafford at Browns meat locker. Some big deer north of dalhart


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Originally Posted By: BOBO the Clown
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Talking natural....no high fence, no protein, just natural deer....the eastern side of the panhandle basically from Childress to the OK border around Perryton. The biggest of that area I think are in the Clarendon/Memphis area and also up toward Shamrock.


Okla dept of wildlife use to check and weight every deer up until 3-4 years ago. You could look at the log book. I've seen whitetail as big as 290 dressed in cimmeron county. I'd say average is 230-40 on the hoof.

Seen some pretty big deer hanging in strafford at Browns meat locker. Some big deer north of dalhart


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Panhandle along the Red River.


Keep going north. The Ag feilds north of dalhart, cactus, spearman etc.


You talking far NW corner of TX? SE Colorado creek bottom whitetails? With major ag just up the way? Further from the equator, especially N, requires more body mass to thrive. Different sub-species.?

Can't back it up with stats. But. From what I've seen, the heaviest whitetails in Texas come from the Red River valley and drainages. To the south and east of the Texas Panhandle.

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Any area that has low deer numbers that are allowed to get some age and those deer live in/around farmed cropland will have larger bodies in the panhandle.


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This thread needs more cowbell, I mean pics, we need pics of some of these behemoths.


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My largest buck, including headgear, was a 6.5 yr old that field dressed at 225#'s from the Rolling Plains of the SE Panhandle back in 2007. He was bigger than any mature MD we shot that year as well. No protein, no ag fields either.


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I lived in Spearman for 5 years. There re some monsters up there. One of my students killed the third largest Mule Deer ever killed in Texas up near Palo Duro Canyon. It was an 18 point. No feeder, open range kill.

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