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    Hill Country Deer vs. South Texas Deer?

    As we are all aware South Texas grows large if not the largest bucks in the great state of Texas.
    As curiosity has brought me I wonder if anyone on TBH has the real reasoning how the red dirt of the south Texas brush country can produce such monstrous deer when all it has to provide is mesquite beans and browse.
    Vs.
    Central Texas/Hill country with Acorns, browse and even mesquite beans. Hill country can produce great deer but not like South Texas even the body sizes aren’t in comparison.

    So what is it that South Texas has that the Hill Country doesn’t?


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    #2
    Different subspecies of WT would be my guess

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      #3
      Subspecies


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        #4
        Maybe consider the density of the herds in both areas.

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          #5
          South Texas has been managed for decades.

          Hill country has been over populated and over grazed for decades.

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            #6
            Red dirt

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              #7
              Its nutrition.

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                #8
                Haven’t a lot of ranches in South Texas brought in larger breeder bucks from the Midwest in the past?

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                  #9
                  Cows seem to also do better in South Texas grazing than Hill Country....
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                    #10
                    Everything that grows in South Texas is high in protein.

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                      #11
                      The brush country has wayyy more to provide than just mesquite beans as seen in the link below. Also south Texas has generally larger tracts of land that can be managed.

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by JVasquez View Post
                        Native browse in South Texas is high in protein.
                        Much higher and much more abundant. The soil quality is much better also as the HC has a limestone base to work with. There is little to no nutrition in Limestone.

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                          #13
                          Guajilla and black brush


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                            #14
                            There was a study in Mississippi where they took deer from different regions of the state. Each region had different quality of deer. Similar to our Hill Country vs South Texas Deer. They put the deer in pens and altered their diet. From what I remember, their findings were that after a couple generations the deer all looked about the same. The deer from the small deer producing areas got much bigger, the medium deer got a little bigger and the biggest deer grew the least.

                            I actually spoke to one of the authors of the study about Texas specifically. He was of the opinion that their results would hold true here too.

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                              #15
                              Originally posted by JVasquez View Post
                              Everything that grows in South Texas is high in protein.
                              Yes, what he said. A lot better groceries that are naturally higher in protein than what you find in the hill country or west Texas.

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