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Post by benmnwi on Jun 29, 2018 10:56:31 GMT -6
Nice buck. I would also guess that they got the age right. I send in the teeth for most of the bucks we shoot and we have killed quite a few bucks in that 100-120" range that are between 4.5 and 6.5 years old. Some bucks just don't have the genes to grow big racks and/or bodies and some other bucks growing on the same property turn into giants.
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Post by smallchunk on Jul 1, 2018 11:39:16 GMT -6
Thanks for the replies, gents!
I am kind of in the area of cattail swamps and farm fields with small woods mixed in. He definitely had plenty of beans. The buck was 184 pounds and that was on September 19th. I agree that he would have put on some weight and would have looked different if it was later in the year. Yearlings in our area would usually be a spike or fork, for sure.
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Post by Sandbur on Jul 1, 2018 19:02:50 GMT -6
My daughter’s buck was aged at 4.5. It weighed 174 pounds and was killed during the first week of rifle season. I am going on memory for weight.
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Post by DoubleLiver on Jul 2, 2018 18:38:42 GMT -6
Your buck was 3.5. I am never wrong.
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Post by batman on Sept 6, 2018 10:57:56 GMT -6
Age this buck.
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Post by kl9 on Sept 6, 2018 11:01:11 GMT -6
Age this buck. 2.5 Free range genetics?
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Post by benmnwi on Sept 6, 2018 11:07:06 GMT -6
Is it a wild deer or captive? The reason I ask is a deer farmer near here kicks out 1 1/2 year old bucks that have antlers that score 170", which is nuts. Must be the combo of lower stress and all the food they can eat in the winter or something. Who knows.
But to answer your question that looks like a young deer's body with an older deer's rack. I see a bunch of extra points too, which is cool and not too common with young deer. If wild I'll say 3 1/2 years old; if captive I guess 1 1/2.
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Post by benmnwi on Sept 6, 2018 11:07:47 GMT -6
Nice buck regardless though.
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Post by batman on Sept 6, 2018 14:59:14 GMT -6
The deer is actually a 2.5 year old doe. She was a mainframe 8 last year. She put on 20 inches but has no fawns. She will die soon....
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Post by benmnwi on Sept 6, 2018 15:03:20 GMT -6
Cool rack for a doe. Hell, that 2.5 year old doe has better antlers than most 2.5 year old bucks. Does she stay in velvet all year?
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Aging deer
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Post by batman on Sept 6, 2018 15:36:21 GMT -6
Cool rack for a doe. Hell, that 2.5 year old doe has better antlers than most 2.5 year old bucks. Does she stay in velvet all year? Stayed velvet till about the rut and sheds her antlers without the knobs kind of like an antelope sheath
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Post by Sandbur on Sept 6, 2018 17:10:23 GMT -6
The deer is actually a 2.5 year old doe. She was a mainframe 8 last year. She put on 20 inches but has no fawns. She will die soon.... You been hitting the firewater again? Sure you can tell the difference?
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Post by batman on Sept 6, 2018 17:58:04 GMT -6
The deer is actually a 2.5 year old doe. She was a mainframe 8 last year. She put on 20 inches but has no fawns. She will die soon.... You been hitting the firewater again? Sure you can tell the difference? If I can read the bling in their ears I know who they be! Interesting to study the subtle quirks in the shed angles that carry over - even as 1.5 year olds. When you know who they are the puzzle is easy to unravel.
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Post by biglakebass on Sept 6, 2018 19:52:20 GMT -6
I need a high fence. Would sure make aging easy. 😎
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Post by nhmountains on Sept 6, 2018 21:19:07 GMT -6
Thanks for the replies, gents! I am kind of in the area of cattail swamps and farm fields with small woods mixed in. He definitely had plenty of beans. The buck was 184 pounds and that was on September 19th. I agree that he would have put on some weight and would have looked different if it was later in the year. Yearlings in our area would usually be a spike or fork, for sure. Nice buck SC! He'd have been a shooter on my land. I'd say at least 3.5 years as well. My brother shot one similar to Sandburs that was 4.5. Some northern deer put their growth into antlers but, most into their body growth.
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