I believe the larger antlered bucks taken in Jackson Co. and close proximity are the products of age and nutrition using the genes stocked from LA and what native deer were still around. There's pretty good nutrition in the limestone hills and soils along the Tenn River. And lord knows we have the hiding places to allow some to grow old enough to maximize their genetic make up. Back before they were restocked from LA they might have shown the same antler size had the lived long enough and gotten better nutrition . Everytime a full grown buck hit's the ground in Ol' Hi-Jackson it doesn't have "Northern Genes" That's not to say it couldn't be an influence in a small area in NJ, maybe. That's my logic and I'm sticking to it.