Home growing up was just north of there in Fairfax County... Springfield
I've seen some big deer in Virginia, but they weren't up around the DC area...in NoVA..
they were more down in the SW part of the state.... but I've never seen one, or one killed that had a rack anywhere near that..
either that was photoshopped or taken somewhere a zillion miles from Northern VA.. I am leaning toward the photo shopped side of the Fraud...
Its a real buck. No kidding. Not saying they are behind every tree, but there are some beasts in horn size that come out of those woods. They have it all, feed, mild weather, low predator issues and good hiding spots.
YOUR opinion I'll take as gospel.... If you say that something like that can come out of Stafford County these days, I'll believe it...
Guess NOVA is so crowded, that there is little to NO hunting in those counties... I have seen in the past that they have lost a lot of deer at times in the pass, because no predators, and not enough food to support how many there are... so they've hired professional hunters to just thin them out...
I'll bet more of them are usually taken out by a car or pickup, than a rifle or bow...
we had the same problem in the Twin Cities in Minnesota back in the early 80s....too many deer and not enough habitat...and NO predators to thin out their numbers... a Reservoir just north of my home, covered just 2 or 3 square miles in 1980....they went in and removed 700 deer out of there, and trucked them to Northern MN, and let them loose.... in 1981, they took another 700 of them out of the same area and did the same thing with them...
and EVEN after that, they still had a couple thousand deer still estimated in there....
