Seems to be the year of the old deer for our place in south Texas. My wife shot a 10 I posted earlier in the season we have estimated at 6 YO.

Last weekend my dad shot a deer we named "goofy buck" because he has a messed up rack. We have been hunting him for 2 years as a big 9pt but this year he showed up with a much smaller rack and half of it was messed up just a fork with some stickers around the base. He has had that bend in his left beam for several years. He did have a few busted ribs where the bone was splintered and healed over on the opposite side. Think he was on his way down for sure with a lot of tooth wear thinking he was 8 YO,


Last is an old doe we have been seeing for years. She has been a bag of bones for a while no fawn with her the past two years, but incredibly wary of the deer blinds. If she walks out and the blind window is open she will just keep walking like nothing happened and not come back. I saw her earlier in the season, but she was feeding along side two of our really nice looking young bucks that I didn't care to educate so gave her a pass. Yesterday evening she came out around 260 yards out(stepped off after the shot), it was further than I felt comfortable shooting with my old 3x9, no range finder and a 25 mph 45 degree cross wind. I saw her at 6 pm and decided to get closer, put my bipod on my 270 and crawled down the ladder. I worked my way a little closer and eased out into the sendero a bit. She was still there popped it off safety put the corsshairs on the high shoulder and squeezed the trigger. I saw her fall straight down on her brisket in the scope and roll over and not move. My shot ended up being 140 yards/steps, total was 260 yards/steps. Was happy to get her. Picture below is from the day I passed her and the other is her teeth, or whats left, don't know how old she is, but would guess she is the last deer that saw the place before we did when we bought it in 2007.

That buck may have been one of the two that walked off Noah's Ark

I think the reason we got that buck this year is because he was more dependant on the feeders. He has been hanging around since mid summer regularly when in prior years he only showed at feeders regularly during the rut.

Do you have a pic of wife's buck?

I must have missed that one

I saw an old doe like that this year. The interesting thing is that she came in close to the feeder while bucks were there and they didn't run her off. I guess even with deer age brings respect.

Not a huge deer. Scored in mid 120's.

Y'all see any good deer this year?

The cameras saw a few we would have liked to!

Had one we called sticker had 17 pts we could see in camera pictures. Showed up for 3 or 4 days and that was it. Have a few up and comers and a few we are wondering where they disappeared too, but didn't have a big list of ones we were looking for from the camera pictures. My wife's buck showed up for the first time a couple weeks into the season, never seen him before then that we know of.

Wow, that's amazing. I've never seen anything like that.

I've got a doe that looks like that (very skinny with the rib cage showing) that I've been watching for two years now. Might have to pop her after seeing that lower jaw

Not really sure. She hung around with the bucks that were running all the other doe around. I think she was probably too old to have fawns anymore maybe so they just didn't pay her any mind. After I shot her and walked down to check her out I was a little nervous about processing her. I put my hand on her front shoulder and could feel every bone in it. Skinned and gutted her out and other than being incredibly full of thorns and not a spec of fat on her the meat appeared to be fine.... we didn't cut any steaks, it will all be sausage/burger!

She weighed 90 lbs live and 65 dressed, Our 2 year old does and 1.5 YO spikes we have shot weigh more than that.

Ive got the jaw from my dads buck as well, its not quite as bad, but almost. I need to clean it up and maybe ill get a pic of it as well.

Please do. My first buck was 6-7 years old. It looked nothing like that poor guy. I wonder how many more years he had in him?

We killed some ratty old culls out west this year. And I'm sure there's a few more stumbling around right now out there.

Here are the pictures of the bucks teeth. After comparing to aging chart teeth 7-8 looks appropriate to me. Sorry they aren't pretty yet... haven't gotten around to cleaning them up and adding them to the ranch collection yet.

Jesus! I thought mine was old.

Thought I saw some black crows and a demon in the pic. I killed a 6 yr. Old this year that I shot and lost two seasons ago. Haha. That'll create some trash talk. It happens sometimes. The deer had the exact same crazy rack, just wider and heavier. Hit him with a high shoulder glance 2 yrs. Ago. Not this time.