No doubt you need age to get them that big and rough terrain contributes to that. But there are a lot of places in Alabama with rough terrain and old bucks that never produce what other areas can.
I would think that food is probably playing a big factor in that. I know Jackson Co has a lot of fertile valleys mixed in with those rugged mountains…..Isnt Bankhead surrounded by farmland??
Something about this buck too that nobody has mentioned…..Its no doubt a stud with great mass but a lot of that non-typical stuff it has going on may just be tied to some kind of antler injury or something…..If you look at the other side its just a basic 8 pt……The hunter may have just gotten really lucky to have killed this deer on the right year
