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I ran the pic through a few photoshop detectors and other than being resized it is real. Resizing is usually necessary to post here and other sites. I am in VA and never saw or heard of any deer like this.

The guy holding it doesn’t look real to me. And if that’s his legs to his right that looks unreal also.Well the more I look at it he is just long arming it.

Agreed. And his left arm appears to have a grandiose fracture.

It appears as though his arm is resting on the top of the truck bed and that may be causing the odd "look".

CashisKing has a place in Stafford, VA. Maybe he has seen or heard something about this deer.

There’s more info on FB under StarCityWhitetails



ETA - Supposedly the deer was pretty well known in one of the neighborhoods in northern Va . There was a couple pics people had posted of it in their backyards. There were also a couple guys hunting the deer.

I stand corrected on this deer after seeing a couple more images/angles of the buck.

BFB.

Scott, some of the bucks that come out of that area and a few surrounding counties has always made me nuts! They are monster horned and 150lbs! Coming from the NE I have never seen bucks like that. I have seen a few on the front of a dog pack and they are just beasts. But it's all soybeans, alfalfa and great feed, low on predators mostly, easy winters and thick woods.

Here is one a buddy’s son took west of Richmond.

North American Whitetail did a write up on it.

https://www.northamericanwhitetail.com/editorial/inside-story-of-wide-virginia-typical/467264

He’s a hammer. Stafford definitely has some nice areas to hunt and plenty of places for them big fellas to hide.

Very interesting. Yeah, at those weights in my locale (and your home turf), that's a 2 y/o animal.

They are some skinny fellas with big horns sometimes.

Not far from there a family member shot a 160" class buck that was over 250lbs on the hoof. Rumor was the area was stocked with Maine deer 90years ago.

I’d never heard that Maine deer stocking story. Kinda interesting.

I have only got one in Stafford Co. that I consider a wide buck. 21.5” inside and just over 23” outside. Definitely my widest buck to date. Did get a couple good tall bucks too but none wider than 17-18” or so. Some very distinctive genes depending where you are in the county.

He's a dandy!

One of the HOAs out there has drafted a letter to DWR about how "unacceptable a treasure like that has been removed permanently from nature."

Go figure lol

And yet some of the HOAs are all for it. I lived in Lake Ridge area of Prince William Co. north of Stafford Co. for a while and there was 30 of us that were qualified and authorized to archery hunt in the designated wooded areas around the neighborhood. The state even supplied us with DMAP tags. I shot mostly does but some guys were able to dredge out a couple good bucks.

One of my buddies did the same. Got qual'ed to hunt those little woodlots up around Loudoun and man, he had some trail cam pictures of some monsters.

Dang that buck is something pretty great!

It didnt winn the big buck contest at greentop sporting goods. It was out scored by a 17” buck