Easy boys. They have nice antlers. Come to Canada and hunt some big bodied mountain bucks. 1.5 dress round 150 and 2.5year olds usually 180-200lbs dressed.
@@DDHONLINEyour response is as useless as the original post. Talk about numbers, there are more hunters in my county than you have subscribers. Have any idea why that is? People with cognitive decline laugh out loud alot, seek help.
Your response is as useless as your original post. Talk about the numbers maybe that is why I have more hunters in my county than you have subscribers. Another stat for you, people with cognitive decline laugh out loud alot.
@@DDHONLINE It's a legit request for deer population statistics, so why not? And who said anything about "record books?" Lots of statistics use qualifiers (e.g., per capita) that make the data more meaningful, which is, arguably, the point of having the data. To a hunter, your vid is largely meaningless absent the suggested "per acre/square mile" qualification. The snarky attitude doesn't help.
@@blueeyeddevil1bro I responded to his post and my comments were deleted. Appreciate your comment. Not sure what is going on with these guys, not what they use to be.
@@matthewb3640 the body size doesn’t bother me it’s still fun to hunt any deer. I was stationed in NC for quite awhile and those deer are even smaller then TX deer but it was still fun hunting them not to mention you get 6 out there. TX you get 5 but most leases only allow you to kill 1 or 2 and the leases are crazy expensive.
There are not as many as you think. They are populated in small urban areas. They are sparse in large wood lots in northern part of state. There is no where near the numbers up north. There used to be many more deer in northern areas UP is really bad.
When 5+ of the other states(totaling over 6 million deer) fit inside Texas...ya really can't call Texas #1, when they only have 3.1 million. Deer density is the best way to rank states. Mississippi: 38 deer per square mile Pennsylvania: 34 deer per square mile Wisconsin: 33 deer per square mile Michigan: 31 deer per square mile Indiana: 28 deer per square mile
Your absolutely right, you can go months and never see a deer here, please stop coming to Texas to hunt deer or anything else. Just please stop coming here period.
I can attest to the PA population. They are a menace on the roads. I miraculously made it through my first 20 years up here without hitting one, and I drive 20,000 or so miles a year. I’m the anomaly though. I don’t know a single person up here that hasn’t hit a least one deer. Most have hit multiple
Except his list his wrong to begin with, he’s giving some states a boost, taking from others, and leaving some states off all together. Georgia is #7 with 1.3 million, ahead of Alabama’s 1.25 million.
@@WalkerA92 your list is wrong ,also you're attempting to base it off the original list. which was also wrong. Georgia has more dear per square mile than ANYOTHER STATE.
I hunt in Texas and yes there are LOTS of deer here, but many are small. I hunt eastern Texas, in the pine forest, and there are a lot of poachers there so they’re under pressure year round.
@@JamesJones-cx5pkcosts to much, freaking out of state license alone is to expensive now, much less crazy lease fees. The lawyers and doctors ruined it.
@@DDHONLINE id like to follow the guy counting... Make sure he's not drinking on the job. Or maybe they're just all here in the hills of West TN. Cause it sure seems like they're every freaking where
@@toethumbmorris9 Pick up a copy of the Deer Hunters' Almanac, to get all of the stats! We have been compiling this since 1992 :) shop.deeranddeerhunting.com/2024-deer-hunters-almanac/
True I have seen more deer in Texas than any other state by far. But there deer are the size of big dogs. Look nice from a distance but are like miniature. Got nice racks though.
@@kennylowe9404 texas is weird on deer population. Some are nowhere to be found in east Texas and then there’s places where they overrun everything lol. Deep west Texas is all mule deer. Its weird. Some places they’re everywhere and some, not so much. Just depends where you go
Im surprised little ol new jersey didnt crack this list. We have deer everywhere and a very small hunting population. The county i live in has zero hunting zones.
Really Need To Divide The Total Number Of White Tails By Total Area Of The State. Also Add Astericks For Same Totals/Area For Mule Deer, Blacktail, Elk, Pronghorn Etc..
@@danthurman9076There is an 8 point buck that legitimately just runs through my city like he owns it 😂 I’ve heard people travel from across the world specifically to hunt bucks here. I don’t know much about that but I would believe it. Deer are everywhere, you’ll be lucky if you can go 20 miles without seeing 10 females scattered somewhere.
@@User_yhvz The deer adapt, they love living in the city and eating out of gardens like it's a smorgasbord. One of the largest bucks I know of lived in the city until he was hit by a truck, his name is the Water Truck Buck.
Kentucky used to have WAY more deer in the early 2000’s then we do now. We Had 1 of the worst EHD out brakes in around 2006 I’ve ever seen and they’ve never recovered completely ..... at least in my area
@@DDHONLINEthat’s crazy, and we only take about 170k per year estimated. We’ll be over a million in no time, which is good for hunters. I’d rather have too many than not enough
Well,,, the deer in TX are about half the size of a regular sized Whitetail north of the Mason/Dixon line, they should only count for 1.5 million. Not everything in Texas is bigger!!!! 😂😂😂😂
I couldn’t agree with you more, please don’t waste your money and time coming here to hunt. No other reason for you to be here really so enjoy your life in wherever your at, especially California, don’t come, do not come here, it’s horrible.
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Nah this state is trash over 80% is privately owned its laws on weed are crazy the minimum wage is 7.25 it’s a good 30min driver to anything. There’s nothing here that isn’t done somewhere else but better
I live in Texas, as a kid I don’t get much of a say in the but going hunting at our lease (not high fence) it has been freakin awesome the deer over there are huge and I’m very privileged to hunt here. To all the people that say it’s a bad place to hunt are wrong
@@ronniejohnson317 We just 90 degrees today for the first time. Our rut is spread out over months and these bucks turn nocturnal quick. We grow big bucks because they aren't usually standing around in fields.👍
You know why you didn’t hear Tennessee in that video? Because two factors. We actually have people who can shoot. We manage our deer population by increasing the number of does you can take daily from season to season. It can be anything from 3-10 does a day. We actually manage our deer populations. Still have a lot of quality bucks too!
I'm surprised Tennessee didn't make the list. I live in the northeast section, and our deer are everywhere. If you go out intontown at night (1-4am) you will see herds of them standing in parking lots and people's yards. They are everywhere.
Wisconsin DNR just put out 1.7 million deer for 2024 population. Expected to go over 2 million by 2025 due to low harvest numbers in 2023 and a mild winter.
Yeah.. idk if it's just based on WT's, or what. I live in Mississippi, and sure, there are plenty of deer lurking in the interstates, but I lived in poop hole California for 5 years and ran over the only 3 deer I hit in my life in that time frame. Lived in NC before that. And Cali is huge.
I've lived in the Carolinas my entire 30 years on this planet. I live right off highway 1 right on the n.c./s.c. state line. I see deer literally everyday on the way to and from work. No shortage on good meat here for me and my family that's for sure. God bless this great land and don't let up. We need you heavenly father
New York is the best place ive seen so far for hunting though. I live in NC currently and it doesn't hold a candle to NY's public land. More deer doesn't mean squat when theyre all on private land youll never see
I lived in TX for a while. There are tons of deer there, but they're also tiny compared to the ones in Maine where I'm from originally. I never checked the numbers, but I'd say like half the weight. Or close to it.
As a Texan, the state is huge, so i think deer per square mile may be a better way to rank it. Also, our white tail are much smaller in stature than our northern cousins'
Guys Texas hunting is good on private land. Public land the deer have no where to grow cause they get shot before they can. On our old private lease we would see over 50 different deer every hunt
I know everyone likes to come to pike county Illinois. I’ve totaled out five vehicles here in the county. Only Michigan, Missouri and Iowa have about the same size deer. Mississippi, Texas, Alabama, Louisiana. They deer about the size of big dogs compared to ours.
I lived in urban Oregon and always saw deer in people's front yard. Now I live in rural Alabama and have never seen a deer. So this is definitely rigged.
You do realize that a deer population per square mile is a much better indicator of the density of deer. Of course Texas leads in number, it is the largest continental state.
I grew up in Missouri. On my mother's side of my family they talk about deer sightings in the 1940's being so rare that they were reported in the local newspaper. Today they're overpopulated pests.
Washington used to have tons here, but when I was little in 2008 we had the bad winter that killed em off, then a couple years late blue tongue killed em off. We used to have herds of them everywhere. Still plenty but lost 80%!
Ohio Indiana and Illinois might not have over a million, but boy are they some monsters up here.
Absolutely.
I live in illinois. Big ones here
@shawnsale3146 We're trying to keep that to ourselves, my brother
i live in illinois and and have a giant mounted that i shot in my back yard
Ohio deer all went to Michigan.
Texas deer the size of fucking Labrador retrievers
Absolutely, don’t come here to hunt lab deer. Just don’t come here period, it’s a terrible place.
You’re right. Go somewhere else to hunt.
Easy boys. They have nice antlers.
Come to Canada and hunt some big bodied mountain bucks.
1.5 dress round 150 and 2.5year olds usually 180-200lbs dressed.
Ain't much bigger in NC
@@joshuaregier9Tell em again dog
Do the list again with deer per acre, or per sq mile.
Maybe we could rewrite all the records books like that LOL. Dimensions of Yankee stadium porch vs Polo Grounds CF, etc LOL
@@DDHONLINEyour response is as useless as the original post. Talk about numbers, there are more hunters in my county than you have subscribers. Have any idea why that is? People with cognitive decline laugh out loud alot, seek help.
Your response is as useless as your original post. Talk about the numbers maybe that is why I have more hunters in my county than you have subscribers. Another stat for you, people with cognitive decline laugh out loud alot.
@@DDHONLINE It's a legit request for deer population statistics, so why not? And who said anything about "record books?" Lots of statistics use qualifiers (e.g., per capita) that make the data more meaningful, which is, arguably, the point of having the data. To a hunter, your vid is largely meaningless absent the suggested "per acre/square mile" qualification. The snarky attitude doesn't help.
@@blueeyeddevil1bro I responded to his post and my comments were deleted. Appreciate your comment. Not sure what is going on with these guys, not what they use to be.
In Texas there are a lot of deer but you either have to own land or pay an extremely high fee to lease the land.
And their body's are small.
@@matthewb3640 the body size doesn’t bother me it’s still fun to hunt any deer. I was stationed in NC for quite awhile and those deer are even smaller then TX deer but it was still fun hunting them not to mention you get 6 out there. TX you get 5 but most leases only allow you to kill 1 or 2 and the leases are crazy expensive.
Can confirm, there's an absolute crapload of deer in michigan
Same
Also same
Yeah, they love to destroy my vehicles
@@ottoolson6856at least they taste good
There are not as many as you think. They are populated in small urban areas. They are sparse in large wood lots in northern part of state. There is no where near the numbers up north. There used to be many more deer in northern areas UP is really bad.
I'm really surprised West Virginia didn't make the list. Never saw so many as I have there.
Who Else Thought That Deer Had Panties On His Antlers 😂HAHAHAHAHA
There are 1.7 million whitetails in my Montana front yard as we speak.
Who else thought the deer in the thumbnail had panties stuck in its antlers?
I did . Had to look twice
Fr i did
That would be me I so thought I saw panties in the rack lol
Now do those statistics in relation to the aceradge of the state.
If you do that, then it puts Mississippi to the Top.
We are.@@timskelton4958
@@timskelton4958 as a Mississippian i agree.
Ohio & illinois not on the list but they produce many Booners every year.
Facts
facts
Yup. They say everything is bigger in Texas....apparently the deer didnt get the memo.😂
I love opening day of firearm season in Shawnee National Forest, Illinois. Always thought that is what the Civil War sounded like. It's intense!!
Indiana
I'd like to see a size of the animal comparison. Texas white-tail to Kansas white-tail would be a good example
Antlers? Texas all day every day, body size northern states because it’s colder up there and they need to pack on more fat to help keep warm.
@@jamor2549you are crazy if you think Texas deer have bigger antlers. Not even close
Every hunting show on TV shows out of staters coming to hunt South Texas for the big ass bucks
@@jamor2549Iowa produces the highest percentage of B&C bucks
@@SpringRiverArcheryWhich state has the white tail deer with the biggest antlers?
Michigan deer hunting is nothing short of an amazing time. So beautiful the further north you go
When 5+ of the other states(totaling over 6 million deer) fit inside Texas...ya really can't call Texas #1, when they only have 3.1 million.
Deer density is the best way to rank states.
Mississippi: 38 deer per square mile
Pennsylvania: 34 deer per square mile
Wisconsin: 33 deer per square mile
Michigan: 31 deer per square mile
Indiana: 28 deer per square mile
Your absolutely right, you can go months and never see a deer here, please stop coming to Texas to hunt deer or anything else. Just please stop coming here period.
@@kevinpringle9454 Same for Michigan!!!
No, no we don’t have many deer in the Sip. We just barely have enough to keep us busy.
I can attest to the PA population. They are a menace on the roads. I miraculously made it through my first 20 years up here without hitting one, and I drive 20,000 or so miles a year. I’m the anomaly though. I don’t know a single person up here that hasn’t hit a least one deer. Most have hit multiple
New Jersey: 112 deer per square mile
was so waiting for virginia… i literally see 3 deer a day just out and about everywhere i go
States ranking in deer per square miles:
KY: 1 million deer / 40.4k square miles = 24.75 deer per square mile
AR: 1.1 / 53.2k = 20. 67
NC: 1.3 / 53.8k = 24.26
PA: 1.3 / 46k = 28.26
WI: 1.3 / 65.5k = 19.85
MO: 1.4 / 69.7k = 18.65
MS: 1.7 / 48.4k = 35.13
AL: 1.7 / 52.4k = 32.44
MI: 1.7 / 96.7k = 17.58
TX: 3.1 / 268.5k = 11.54
Top to bottom:
MS
AL
PA
KY
NC
AR
WI
MO
MI
TX
Are you adding the upper peninsula Land for Michigan
Except his list his wrong to begin with, he’s giving some states a boost, taking from others, and leaving some states off all together. Georgia is #7 with 1.3 million, ahead of Alabama’s 1.25 million.
West Virginia
I live in Mississippi and can confirm the deer population is almost as high as as the human population 😂
@@WalkerA92 your list is wrong ,also you're attempting to base it off the original list. which was also wrong. Georgia has more dear per square mile than ANYOTHER STATE.
I find it hard to believe South Carolina isn’t on the list
I hunt in Texas and yes there are LOTS of deer here, but many are small. I hunt eastern Texas, in the pine forest, and there are a lot of poachers there so they’re under pressure year round.
Hunt MS. We are #1 per square mile with huge bucks.
@@JamesJones-cx5pkcosts to much, freaking out of state license alone is to expensive now, much less crazy lease fees. The lawyers and doctors ruined it.
I'll go ahead and tell you right now there's a shitload more deer in Georgia than there is in Alabama
You sure about that ?
I mean Georgia isn’t even on the list
@@ClaytonJohnson18 well that's extremely easy to explain ,don't expect a keyboard Warrior that's never shot a riffle to know anything about hunting
Georiga kills over 250,000 a year
Georgia has 1.2 million whitetail deer . About half of them are in the area around where I live lol no kidding we have herds
Or tennessee. I got a whole family in my backyard
Tennessee is home to about 700,000 deer.
@@DDHONLINE id like to follow the guy counting... Make sure he's not drinking on the job. Or maybe they're just all here in the hills of West TN. Cause it sure seems like they're every freaking where
How can every state around TN be in the top 10 and TN only have 700k lol definitely not right
I as well live in west tn. Deer everywhere
@@toethumbmorris9 Pick up a copy of the Deer Hunters' Almanac, to get all of the stats! We have been compiling this since 1992 :) shop.deeranddeerhunting.com/2024-deer-hunters-almanac/
I hunt south Mississippi we got approximately 35 deer down here. Lol
I live in Northern Mississippi we got a million deer up here😁
True I have seen more deer in Texas than any other state by far. But there deer are the size of big dogs. Look nice from a distance but are like miniature. Got nice racks though.
Another thing is yeah theres alot of deer but other states have much denser deer populations
Georgia should've been on this list
Thats what I said
Georgia 1.2 million.
But they’re not, ohh well!
@@CASH-THE-NERD believe what you want or believe in Google.
@@davidarwood6264 I did believe google
You should do this for mule deer and elk, that’d be cool to see the rankings as I’m from Montana and that’s what we mainly hunt
That would be neat to see. Try to tag him in here. Hopefully, he'll/she will see it.
I'm in Montana and I think there's more whitetail than people here.
Hmmmm , Georgia is estimated with 1.3 million deer which is why the season allows 12 deer that can be legally taken a year .
Rather than a total population why not do a density? Texas has 2.5 or more times the area as other states?
True we are twice to 3x the size of Alabama or Arkansas
Therefore it has more deer in it
@@TylerJ-ve2dyagreed. But it may be fewer deer per acre.
@@kennylowe9404 texas is weird on deer population. Some are nowhere to be found in east Texas and then there’s places where they overrun everything lol. Deep west Texas is all mule deer. Its weird. Some places they’re everywhere and some, not so much. Just depends where you go
So I guess Michigan would be #1
🦌 Fascinating & interesting🦌😊🦌 thanks for educating us all. 🦌
Glad to see my home state of Michigan still up there. But it's surprising to not see Iowa on this list. They have some monster White Tails.
Give Georgia some respect we have some good ones down here
The whitetail in Texas is spread out over 3 -4 times as much area.
Im surprised little ol new jersey didnt crack this list. We have deer everywhere and a very small hunting population. The county i live in has zero hunting zones.
I just looked it up Georgia 1.75 million
I always thought we were in 2nd place, right behind Texas.
BS ......IT'S 1.2 MILLION. Just looked it up. 😂 Tennessee has about 900,000.
@@davidarwood6264 I'm sorry that you're not capable of asking Google a simple question
@@jeremywalker2460 I certainly did ask Google. Obviously your eyes see what they want or your brain overrides your eyes.
@@jeremywalker2460 I just googled it and got 1.2
Makes sense, TX is likely 3x bigger than most states on this list.
Really Need To Divide The Total Number Of White Tails By Total Area Of The State.
Also Add Astericks For Same Totals/Area For Mule Deer, Blacktail, Elk, Pronghorn Etc..
Alabama and Mississippi have the highest population density
Good to see Wisconsin made it on the list
IOWA
not close according to this account but I know for a fact that the Iowa DNR can only count to 20 and there are around 50,000 does that have triplets
@@danthurman9076There is an 8 point buck that legitimately just runs through my city like he owns it 😂
I’ve heard people travel from across the world specifically to hunt bucks here. I don’t know much about that but I would believe it. Deer are everywhere, you’ll be lucky if you can go 20 miles without seeing 10 females scattered somewhere.
@@User_yhvz The deer adapt, they love living in the city and eating out of gardens like it's a smorgasbord. One of the largest bucks I know of lived in the city until he was hit by a truck, his name is the Water Truck Buck.
Kentucky used to have WAY more deer in the early 2000’s then we do now. We
Had 1 of the worst EHD out brakes in around 2006 I’ve ever seen and they’ve never recovered completely ..... at least in my area
Ever wonder who the states send out to count them😂 I'm sure this is completely accurate
This is part of a game wardens job.
Its a study they've been doing for 30 years so I'd say its pretty accurate
They use IR camera’s attached to drones and fly them over the area studied in a grid pattern
I'm shocked that New York is not on this list.
New York just missed out. It's herd is estimated at 900K.
@@DDHONLINEthat’s crazy, and we only take about 170k per year estimated. We’ll be over a million in no time, which is good for hunters. I’d rather have too many than not enough
Upstate NY has very dense population too
Well,,, the deer in TX are about half the size of a regular sized Whitetail north of the Mason/Dixon line, they should only count for 1.5 million. Not everything in Texas is bigger!!!! 😂😂😂😂
I couldn’t agree with you more, please don’t waste your money and time coming here to hunt. No other reason for you to be here really so enjoy your life in wherever your at, especially California, don’t come, do not come here, it’s horrible.
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This should be done by state size and taking into consideration the amount of hunters registered in each state.
God bless Texas 🙌
Nah this state is trash over 80% is privately owned its laws on weed are crazy the minimum wage is 7.25 it’s a good 30min driver to anything. There’s nothing here that isn’t done somewhere else but better
@jakkjakk1694 by all means pack up and head to another wonderful state pod.
@@Gert169damn, 30 minutes to your weed connect?
Wouldn't give you the steam off my piss for anything in Texas. It's a septic pit that produces nothing but big turds!
@@Gert169come to Florida. We have millions of acres of public land and we are getting recreational weed in November.
In Michigan we have them everywhere short of downtown it seems suburbs are inundated
Baby whitetail! Being from Minnesota i was so weirded out to see how tiny southern deer are. Ours are damn near cows. 😆
but ours got their mass put somewhere else😂😂😂 the racks are giant, everytime I sit during hog hunting I see mainly 10-15 points
@@Lathammoenidk about you but I ain't eatin deer racks.
Per square miles
Missi 35.694
Alaba 33.574
Michi 30.040
Penn 29.063
N ca 26.745
Kent 25.329
Wisc 24.006
Arka 21.144
Mizzo 20.370
Texas 11.531
Idk how Ohio isn't on this list...I guarantee there is over a million whitetail deer here! Big ones too
Yeah I was guessing iowa and Ohio to be at least top 3
Not arround E. Palestine OH 🙄
Same with illinois
@brianadams6628 I'm in southeastern ohio and we have a crazy amount. I see at least 10 every morning on my way to work
Deer further north are bigger though, I live in NC some decent bucks but they don’t have to survive through some brutal long winters
Tasty critters...
Canned deer meat. Yum
I live in Texas, as a kid I don’t get much of a say in the but going hunting at our lease (not high fence) it has been freakin awesome the deer over there are huge and I’m very privileged to hunt here. To all the people that say it’s a bad place to hunt are wrong
Mississippi is the sleeper. We are #1 per square mile. We grow big bucks because our terrain is thick and hills are knarly. Bama can't compete.
Illinois deer are bigger.
Only because of the cooler summer. Mississippi summer is sweltering. Our spring is usually about three weeks and straight into summer.
@@ronniejohnson317 We just 90 degrees today for the first time. Our rut is spread out over months and these bucks turn nocturnal quick. We grow big bucks because they aren't usually standing around in fields.👍
Sounds like shit talking to me
@@garyrhodes5403 Google it.
Im a born and raised Texas hunter. We have a 20 county area thats home to over 1.5 million....
Idk how accurate this is Montana should definitely be up there
White tails? Or are you counting mule deer?
@@markpashia7067 was saying deer in general mule as well as whitetail
@@markpashia7067 but even if it is just whitetail yeah it should still be on there
You know why you didn’t hear Tennessee in that video? Because two factors. We actually have people who can shoot. We manage our deer population by increasing the number of does you can take daily from season to season. It can be anything from 3-10 does a day. We actually manage our deer populations. Still have a lot of quality bucks too!
Chill ReRe, no one was bad mouthing TN. “We can actually shoot” durrrr. Pa, Mich, Wisc have 200k more hunters.
How is Iowa not on the list?
Iowa has fewer than 300,000 deer statewide.
@DDHONLINE you fkn dingdong.
Biden was going to do great things, too, huh?
They are just better at hiding in Iowa
Literally, Iowa has some of the best deer hunting you can get in the world
As a Wisconsinite I consider this a massive w
Indiana
I'm surprised Tennessee didn't make the list. I live in the northeast section, and our deer are everywhere. If you go out intontown at night (1-4am) you will see herds of them standing in parking lots and people's yards.
They are everywhere.
Id ask the locals in northern Michigan if they see deer anymore....
Illinois should have made this list. I live on 2 acres with 1/2 of that being woodland. I counted 29 doe
6 young buck, 8 fawn. On 1 acre of woods.
Texas also has a lot of breeding farms for deer
Here in Michigan, the darn things are in cities like Dearborn, Ann Arbor, the list goes on and on.
Wisconsin has the most boon and Crockett deer apparently. Pretty cool that my home state of Michigan took 2nd though.
Texas is huge and Wisconsin has millions of deer
Indiana and even the suburbs of Indianapolis have a lot too !! I just saw 4 in my neighborhood!!
Wisconsin DNR just put out 1.7 million deer for 2024 population. Expected to go over 2 million by 2025 due to low harvest numbers in 2023 and a mild winter.
Same with Michigan. The DNR are saying the deer population will hit over 2 million by 2025
i was surprised tennessee didn’t make it.. i feel like i see them all the time day and night lol
Yeah.. idk if it's just based on WT's, or what. I live in Mississippi, and sure, there are plenty of deer lurking in the interstates, but I lived in poop hole California for 5 years and ran over the only 3 deer I hit in my life in that time frame. Lived in NC before that. And Cali is huge.
I've lived in the Carolinas my entire 30 years on this planet. I live right off highway 1 right on the n.c./s.c. state line. I see deer literally everyday on the way to and from work. No shortage on good meat here for me and my family that's for sure. God bless this great land and don't let up. We need you heavenly father
Wow. Really expected Louisiana to be on there.
Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa,
Kentucky, and Arkansas have the best hunting
Over 2 million in Michigan's herd.
As a life long Tennesseean I can assure you that every deer in America is from Tennessee originally.
New York is the best place ive seen so far for hunting though. I live in NC currently and it doesn't hold a candle to NY's public land. More deer doesn't mean squat when theyre all on private land youll never see
Would be interesting to analyze deer per square mile, too!
Whats crazy is that texas still has the if not close to the highiest deer density.
I lived in TX for a while. There are tons of deer there, but they're also tiny compared to the ones in Maine where I'm from originally. I never checked the numbers, but I'd say like half the weight. Or close to it.
Yeah i feel the mountains in Tennessee should of made this list
As a Texan, the state is huge, so i think deer per square mile may be a better way to rank it. Also, our white tail are much smaller in stature than our northern cousins'
Guys Texas hunting is good on private land. Public land the deer have no where to grow cause they get shot before they can. On our old private lease we would see over 50 different deer every hunt
I know everyone likes to come to pike county Illinois. I’ve totaled out five vehicles here in the county. Only Michigan, Missouri and Iowa have about the same size deer. Mississippi, Texas, Alabama, Louisiana. They deer about the size of big dogs compared to ours.
I agree Texas is #1 I seen over 20 150+ inch bucks in one set
Yeah, that weigh 100lbs each. Texas is the GAYEST deer state. Y’all shoot dogs with antlers.
As a Texan and to be fair our state is over 3 times better than the other states on the list
Only steers and queers come from Texas.
New york should be #8 having 1.2 million deer!
I’m a Texan. Hunted here my whole life. 140” is literally a trophy deer here. I would recommend going up north to get a trophy buck.
Hard to believe New York doesn't make the list. Even the suburbs wre full of them.
I lived in urban Oregon and always saw deer in people's front yard. Now I live in rural Alabama and have never seen a deer. So this is definitely rigged.
Population per acre and Illinois will for sure make that list
Ranch is 10 miles north of Jacksboro tx !
The deer aren’t very heavy but antlers are very nice sized! In Texas and they have the deer!
I am from Arkansas and on average see 60 deer a hunt
Funny thing is I work in Bama, live in Ohio and I guess the deer are absolutely terrified down here because I almost never see any!
As of March 2024, Wisconsin's whitetail deer population was estimated to be between 1.3 and 1.6 million
You do realize that a deer population per square mile is a much better indicator of the density of deer. Of course Texas leads in number, it is the largest continental state.
I grew up in Missouri. On my mother's side of my family they talk about deer sightings in the 1940's being so rare that they were reported in the local newspaper. Today they're overpopulated pests.
Pre-WW1, whitetail were almost extinct in the US, with only Indiana and Ohio having stable herds, iirc.
turkeys same where i live
Thought Minnesota would be in here for sure. I see white tail everyday
It should've been what states have the most deer in relation to the overall landmass
That’s a shame Tennessee and Georgia didn’t even make the list.
Washington used to have tons here, but when I was little in 2008 we had the bad winter that killed em off, then a couple years late blue tongue killed em off. We used to have herds of them everywhere. Still plenty but lost 80%!
The state of Texas is huge, no wonder why there are so many there.
Bro Iowa BLOWS those numbers
Cool video someday I'll get me my own whitetail deer. Also I live in Idaho and we are not a boring state people.