As for the person above that stated the deer in North mathews are bigger than the deer in south mathews and there being a five mile difference... that is my experience as well and I've been hunting this area of the black belt for twenty years. The research and all the data make good sense.. I'm not knocking any biologist by any means.. but there's something else going on too. We are talking about big open cow pastures in mathews with more houses being built than hunters. There's not much management or food plots or supplemental feeding or anything and within five miles of the same soil there two different herds of deer with one growing larger antlers just about evertime. What's the answer?