More or less ditto for sambar Miller except for maybe the desert part,though they can handle the extreme droughts of Ramthambore (India).
I dont doubt it that W/Tail are as you say mate but isnt the fact that because there are many millions of them in the US it makes them not "THAT" difficult to obtain.Reading figures of the amounts taken in most states each year not counting the vehicle kills amounts to incredible tallies of a deer species which can be over abundant in some places resulting in some of the "not too hard to get bucks"
This is not a put down of your whitetail i too would love to hunt them but in my own honest opinion i would put a few bucks on it that the average good sambar hunter would after some grounding be capable of taking one of those 8 pointers.
My good mate in NM tells me that the Coues bucks are the real hard deer that you fella`s have there in the US and to the die hard hunters that hunt them they can be the supreme trophy for US deer hunters.No matter what the worlds deer species are all for that matter a great animal to pursue.