re: Louisiana Deer antler genetic types by area

Those factors may help a particular deer to be all that he can be, but nutrition isn't going to make whitetails get forked G1s and G2s like a Mule Deer. That's all genetic. Which was why I posted this thread after seeing that deer. Greenwood is the only place I've ever seen where that's a trait that gets regularly realized.

AlxTgr is correct. Yall are talking about something else.

I don’t comment much and have been trying to stay out of this one too. I’m not going to post pictures for the main reason of remaining anonymous. I hunt swamp along I-10 between St.Charles Parish and Ascension Parish. I also hunt swamp on the other side of the river. I promise you, if you let them grow old, you will have stickers, kickers, and drop tines. Not every single one, but it is not uncommon at all down south in the swamp for 5.5year olds and older to develop some awesome character. Growing up we hunted with dogs and 95% of our buck kills were yearlings to 3.5 year olds. Spikes to small 8 points. Every once in a while, a post 4.5 year old was killed and he was something special. We always assumed deer just don’t get big down here. Since the Management areas took over and more and more areas become unreachable, a lot of deer are able to get a lifetime of great nutrition, and have been now for several generations. In the last 7 years, I’ve killed several old bucks pushing 200lbs and measuring up to 142. A beautiful deer is different from person to person. You take these deer I’m hunting down here, and put them in an area surrounded by ag, in just a couple of generations, they’d be 225lbs+ and in Booner status. Nutrition is everything for a deer’s potential. Studies have been done with relocating deer from poor soil/nutrition areas, to superb soil/nutrition. 2nd generation deer increased dramatically and caught up to the deer local to the area of relocation. There’s lots of free accurate information out there. Happy hunting to all. Logging out