Originally Posted By: N2TRKYS
I've hunted a lot of reclaimed mine land that had reverted to pines and fallow fields in IL that had very large deer. I didn't see any ag land around them. Soil alone doesn't do it without the genetics.



But wouldn't the genetics come from the rich soil that once or does now provide the ag fields? I really don't know but it seems it would.


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