I agree. I hunt Choccolocco WMA a pretty good bit, it's 58,000 acres of mostly mature unbroken hardwoods. Primarily the deer are small bodied and small racked. You almost never hear of a 140-150" deer killed there. Heck, for that matter, it's not easy to see deer there at all. Conversely I hunt another public tract (25,000 acres) in the same county and it is loaded to the max with studs, and dadgum bunches of deer period! You'll see 30+ deer some days on that 25,000 acre place. What's the difference? I don't think there's any difference in the deer. This other place is about 50/50 mixed timber and cutover. Has tons of thick areas, browse, bedding galore.