When did they put age restrictions on the tags on our license?

It will be much easier to judge in a month, once they've coated-in and swollen up for the rut. The good news is that the fawn crop from last year should have gotten a good jump, and the does ought to be in great breeding shape, leading to a healthy fawn crop of replacements next spring.

Old enough to breed, old enough to bleed

As long as it makes happy I'm good. Don't get me wrong, I would love to shoot a big 6 year old 10 pointer scoring 170 but in the end I'm gonna end up eating it anyway.

Ive heard that statement said the other way too

When did they put age restrictions on the tags on our license? Now we are going to tell people what they can and can not shoot based off an age? Age classes vary around the state by a lot. What is old to me might not be old to you. Like posted above me, there is much more to look at than how fat a deer is this time of the year. A 5 yr old deer is still a 5 yr old deer. If you want to call him older then go for it, if you want to call him younger then go for it. In the end he can only be what age he is not what you or I want him to be.

Ive heard that statement said the other way too

Eventually you get tired of shooting 120inch deer. And you save a tag for a big buck. all those young deer could be amazing trophies if people will let them grow. The original poster gets this. Most people who have hunted a while do. If your not at his level yet it's ok but don't come down on him. He had made a good point. The more mature deer get the bigger they get. once you've killed a bunch of average deer you want something more. It changes the game.

Eventually you get tired of shooting 120inch deer. And you save a tag for a big buck. all those young deer could be amazing trophies if people will let them grow. The original poster gets this. Most people who have hunted a while do. If your not at his level yet it's ok but don't come down on him. He had made a good point. The more mature deer get the bigger they get. once you've killed a bunch of average deer you want something more. It changes the game.

I never get tired of killing the older and best deer in the area I am hunting. Notice I said older and best deer because some areas will never have a mature 5 yr old or older buck. I consider a "trophy" to be what a trophy is for the area he was killed in and not how big his head gear is. I have killed a few deer in my life and I have a "few" hanging on the walls of my house. I get "it" and we agree on a lot more than you realize His point was to puff his chest about him aging "his"(he does not own them) differently cause he has history on them. He just thinks he is correct when everyone else is wrong. His post was not about letting deer age more than to rub it in the face of a lot of folks on here who he do not agree with on ages they post. I age deer the way I see them and have been aging deer on the hoof since around 1991. Am I right 100% of the time? No. I am right a lot of them time, yes. I see things on bucks as they age and pay attention to them. Those things vary from region to region in the state. Not every buck that is 5 yrs old has the same body shape or size. I have killed deer that I thought were 4-5 yrs old only to find they had no teeth left and post mature on age. Their body looked like a younger buck and they weighed much less than a buck their age class should have weighed. Bucks of the same age within any given herd in any region will look different. A lot will look like cookie cutters that all look the age they are. I made a list one time of the things I look at when a buck walks in and that list had close to 40 things I reference for age. The one thing that was not on that list was antler size. I looked at that after I decided how old he was. There are a lot guys on here that can age deer from a picture.

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