Congrats to your buddies boy, nice buck. My brother has whitetails like that running all over in the city park across the street from his house and he lives right on the edge of the city limits. Whitetails can get that big out there because the locals consider them vermin compared to mule deer. Whitetails are a joke to the locals. Most of the locals let the kids shoot those and the older guys just chase mulies and elk. My brother has had more opportunities to shoot large whitetails since he moved to WY than he ever had back here living in WI.