Well, king, as I said, "generality". Plus, the Texas hill country has long been way overloaded with too many deer for the habitat. I saw that when I first came home to Texas in 1963, and it hasn't gotten better as the larger ranches have broken up with deaths or developments.
1963 was a drouth year. The hunter kill in Llano, Mason and Brady counties was some 15,000 deer. The winter kill from thirst and starvation was some 17,000, per TP&WD. Even so, removal of 32,000 deer in just one year didn't bother the total population for long enough to notice.
Trophy management bucks in south Texas rarely field dress to 200 pounds. In Maine, a friend of mine killed a whitetail that dressed out around 300. People post pictures here of midwest deer that look to me to be on the young side, but are dressing out around 150 and up.
In the last 30-some years down here in the desert, I've seen two mule deer that would dress out over 200. I've seen many, many pictures of larger mule deer in the northern ranges.
A big male cougar down here would be anything above maybe 120 pounds. From reading, that's 20 to 50 pounds lighter than what are killed up in the Rockies.
You can't look at just CenTex vs. SouTex. You gotta compare Gull Coast critters as well, as you move northward on a nationwide basis.
, Art