The top 10 WORST states for big whitetail deer! #hunting #deerhunting

[robertoaiello]

Big racks don't equal big bodies. New York produces big bodies

[spinyheghog]

Massachusetts and Connecticut had officially eliminated it's deer population back in 1770. They went 25 years without a deer sighting before saying the deer were gone.

[vlfbqcw]

As a New Yorker from the center of the state, we have so much more agricultural and habitat than those costal New England states do.

We have the Catskill and Allegheny mountains to the south, the farm lands that stretch from the Mohawk River valley in the east to Buffalo in the west. There are the foothills and Tug Hill plateau in the center of the state and finally the Adirondack mountains to the north that will test the grit and skills of a true deer hunter more than any other place in the state.

Sure there are some places that are better than others in the state, but thats every state.

[kennethschilling]

Washington has some of the biggest black tail deer in the country. A lot of the locals don't put their bucks in the record books because they don't want to attract out of state hunters.
It's true we don't have huge white tails but we still have big bucks 🤷🏼

[Poppy]

Im from and live in mass and one big problem is tearing out any tree to put a house its honestly ridiculous

[bryce]

Washington state has great fishing to make up for the deer not being as good as other states

[Wagoneerland]

Good . Y'all stay out of South Carolina. We full here.

[byronmitchell]

Massachusetts and Connecticut have a lack of agricultural and low logging industries which helps deer dramatically.

[dt]

You want big, we’ll do ya? You go north, the great white north! There big up here👍🇨🇦

[jimlyski]

We do realize many people that hunt may have record bucks / elk they shot that’ll never be in the books simply because the hunt for different reasons. I personally know a couple with elk racks that would be and never will be.

[everythingloud]

My dad shot a monster 7x5 mule deer in the 80s in Washington, and it's bigger than most that have come out of montana and Idaho it's crazy! I'm from NW Montana, and my biggest mule deer is still smaller than his. I have yet to see anything close to it, and I am a hard-core hunter who hunts all 30 days of archery elk every year and about 20 days during rifle all in the backcountry

[mikebolton]

Wa has blacktail, and tons of Elk. I'm fighting an Elk herd 60 strong, that's wrecking my orchard.

[dustinburris]

You should do it by how many B&C deer per square mile, those smaller states are at a disadvantage simply because of how small they are.

[asherogden]

We may not have whitetail in Washington, but we got some big mule deer over here

[ajbabineau]

This only applies to antlers. The deer themselves are bigger in some of those northern states you mentioned.

[austinhare]

Should factor in hunting land acreage and hunter number. some of those states are pretty small and not a lot of hunters

[markdavidson]

We don't fence or supplement nutrition in the west or farm raise our deer.

[MisfitW]

New England is pretty awful when it comes to hunting in general 😂 my parents live there and I try to line up visits with hunting trips it's miserable

[JimboTheMick]

You haven't been to Washington enough or haven't seen the right landscape lol, we have MONSTER whitetail here and elk. As a matter of a fact i have a monster white tail mounted in my garage right now 👀

[jeterdemerice]

So in Washington we don’t even have that many white tail on the west side of the mountains. What we have on the west side is black tails. The northwest ghost