I looked up Lake Tahoe and it appears its in Nevada. I didn't know Nevada had whitetails. May be mule deer you are thinking of.
But the primary reason why our deer are not as big as the white-tails in the midwest is due to nutrition and overabundance. Soils has a ton to do with it. More fertile soils provide more nutrition for deer. During the antler growth period, the deer's body needs come before the antlers. The more extra nutrients they have after meeting their body's needs, the bigger their antlers are. The midwest has some of the most fertile soil in the country, thus all the agriculture.
We also are overpopulated deer wise. Causes more stress on the deer herd, a bad out of whack buck to doe ratio, and uneven age structure. The midwest has less deer, a better age structure, and a lot better buck to doe ratio.
Thats an absolute monster there. What state he kill it in?
Yeah, guided hunts are bad expensive. If you want to come hunting with me, plan on making the hunt the week before Christmas. That is when the older bucks are most vulnerable here. THe first does start coming into estrous and the big boys start moving during the daylight.
He is a 10 point as far as I can tell. May have some junk off the back of his bases, I don't know.
i literally lol'd at 5 deer jumping off a bridge and falling 20-30 feet to their death
