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Re: What’s the point of putting the .5 on deer age?
[Re: sbushee]
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02/01/19 04:28 AM
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kind of a big deal
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It’s makes them sound older and bigger
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Re: What’s the point of putting the .5 on deer age?
[Re: sbushee]
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02/01/19 04:51 PM
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I honestly think it is a learned habit that people have just stuck with over time. It was based on the deer was born earlier in the year, but not really a big factor. My motto is just shoot big mature deer and it won't matter!
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Re: What’s the point of putting the .5 on deer age?
[Re: sbushee]
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02/01/19 04:53 PM
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I don't do it but it does crack me up. Folks will add the .5 whether it's July or January.
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Re: What’s the point of putting the .5 on deer age?
[Re: sbushee]
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02/01/19 11:06 PM
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What annoys me is when people range from 4.5-5 year old. Two different age classes. 4.5-5.5 okay, 4-5 okay, but a deer isn’t either 4.5 years old or 5 years old.
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Re: What’s the point of putting the .5 on deer age?
[Re: sbushee]
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02/01/19 11:23 PM
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don k
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Are some too lazy to add a decimal point and a number? The deer is a year and a half or whatever. Your time is not that valuable you can't type a couple of extra times.Live with it.
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Re: What’s the point of putting the .5 on deer age?
[Re: don k]
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02/01/19 11:36 PM
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Are some too lazy to add a decimal point and a number? The deer is a year and a half or whatever. Your time is not that valuable you can't type a couple of extra times.Live with it. So which is it...your times is to valuable to fix something to eat or you have plenty of time time type a decimal point and a number? My time is too valuable to buy, peel add stuff to make it. I buy the ready made. Better and cheaper than doing it myself.
Are idiots multiplying faster than normal people?
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Re: What’s the point of putting the .5 on deer age?
[Re: sbushee]
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02/01/19 11:54 PM
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Because it's accurate during hunting season?
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Re: What’s the point of putting the .5 on deer age?
[Re: JKW]
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02/01/19 11:55 PM
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Because it's accurate during hunting season? But what about the ranges of deer born in April in parts of Texas to deer born in deep South Texas into August and Sept?
Are idiots multiplying faster than normal people?
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Re: What’s the point of putting the .5 on deer age?
[Re: stxranchman]
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02/02/19 12:56 AM
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Because it's accurate during hunting season? But what about the ranges of deer born in April in parts of Texas to deer born in deep South Texas into August and Sept? There are certainly exceptions to any situation. I've personally seen fawns that were born as late as November, but that's certainly not the norm. I would say the vast majority are born between from April though July, although I'm sure south Texas August is more common. I don't get worked up over someone using either, I know what they're talking about. I do bite my tongue, though, when people refer to fawns as yearlings.
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Re: What’s the point of putting the .5 on deer age?
[Re: JKW]
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02/02/19 02:55 AM
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Because it's accurate during hunting season? But what about the ranges of deer born in April in parts of Texas to deer born in deep South Texas into August and Sept? There are certainly exceptions to any situation. I've personally seen fawns that were born as late as November, but that's certainly not the norm. I would say the vast majority are born between from April though July, although I'm sure south Texas August is more common. I don't get worked up over someone using either, I know what they're talking about. I do bite my tongue, though, when people refer to fawns as yearlings. I have seen fawns born the first week of April to as late end of October also. Texas has a varied rut that begins in late Sept along the upper coast to inland and then around Christmas in other areas of deep South Texas. There are pockets in the Hill Country where the rut starts in mid October with late April fawns. Some states the rut begins in Jan and into Feb so those fawns are born very late. They would be just being born or born after archery season opens. Then throw in Florida where you can see a rut starting in July and no telling when it ends. Their archery season starts in late July. What age should we call those deer in those areas during the early archery season when some deer have not even seen their birth date? To me a fawn is up to 7 months of age, then a yearling after that. Those who call deer a yearling are going to be of the older rancher types also. I don't worry about what someone calls a deer for age or type since I use what I was brought up hearing them called.
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Re: What’s the point of putting the .5 on deer age?
[Re: don k]
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02/02/19 01:14 PM
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Are some too lazy to add a decimal point and a number? The deer is a year and a half or whatever. Your time is not that valuable you can't type a couple of extra times.Live with it. ....so are you saying Don that you take the time to write down or introduce yourself as a .5?
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Re: What’s the point of putting the .5 on deer age?
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02/02/19 01:21 PM
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don k
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Are some too lazy to add a decimal point and a number? The deer is a year and a half or whatever. Your time is not that valuable you can't type a couple of extra times.Live with it. ....so are you saying Don that you take the time to write down or introduce yourself as a .5? At my age I am lucky to remember my name much less how old I am.
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Re: What’s the point of putting the .5 on deer age?
[Re: stxranchman]
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02/02/19 01:22 PM
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don k
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Are some too lazy to add a decimal point and a number? The deer is a year and a half or whatever. Your time is not that valuable you can't type a couple of extra times.Live with it. So which is it...your times is to valuable to fix something to eat or you have plenty of time time type a decimal point and a number? My time is too valuable to buy, peel add stuff to make it. I buy the ready made. Better and cheaper than doing it myself. Cooking is a whole lot different than ageing Deer.
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Re: What’s the point of putting the .5 on deer age?
[Re: JMalin]
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02/02/19 01:27 PM
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What annoys me is when people range from 4.5-5 year old. Two different age classes. 4.5-5.5 okay, 4-5 okay, but a deer isn’t either 4.5 years old or 5 years old. This is one of my peeves also and quite a few on here do it.....
"You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas".
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Re: What’s the point of putting the .5 on deer age?
[Re: sbushee]
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02/02/19 04:00 PM
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In a well balanced herd, the fawns are born in the spring. When fall and deer season rolls around, the young of the year are not yet a year old. They are a half year old. It starts from there.
Smokey Bear---Lone Star State.
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Re: What’s the point of putting the .5 on deer age?
[Re: sbushee]
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02/02/19 05:31 PM
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boredom after deer season is over definitely brings up some goofy threads.
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Re: What’s the point of putting the .5 on deer age?
[Re: Smokey Bear]
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02/02/19 05:38 PM
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stxranchman
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In a well balanced herd, the fawns are born in the spring. When fall and deer season rolls around, the young of the year are not yet a year old. They are a half year old. It starts from there. Glad to know I hunt and unbalanced herd in South Texas that starts to fawn in July into August. Guess someone needs to tell our bucks to start the rut earlier. When our archery season starts our fawns a 1/4 yr old.
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Re: What’s the point of putting the .5 on deer age?
[Re: stxranchman]
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02/02/19 07:15 PM
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don k
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In a well balanced herd, the fawns are born in the spring. When fall and deer season rolls around, the young of the year are not yet a year old. They are a half year old. It starts from there. Glad to know I hunt and unbalanced herd in South Texas that starts to fawn in July into August. Guess someone needs to tell our bucks to start the rut earlier. When our archery season starts our fawns a 1/4 yr old. Actually that is .25 year old. Then when archery season starts this year it will be 1.25 years old. Who started this anyway?
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Re: What’s the point of putting the .5 on deer age?
[Re: sbushee]
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02/02/19 07:45 PM
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No need to get testy there ranch man. Regional differences are what they are, and a deer is as old as it is.
Smokey Bear---Lone Star State.
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Re: What’s the point of putting the .5 on deer age?
[Re: stxranchman]
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02/02/19 08:02 PM
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Because it's accurate during hunting season? But what about the ranges of deer born in April in parts of Texas to deer born in deep South Texas into August and Sept? .25, .33, .66 or .75, of course.
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Re: What’s the point of putting the .5 on deer age?
[Re: HuntingCFP]
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02/02/19 10:18 PM
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I honestly think it is a learned habit that people have just stuck with over time. It was based on the deer was born earlier in the year, but not really a big factor. My motto is just shoot big mature deer and it won't matter! I think the entire thread comes down to this. It's been done for so long by so many, people just do it. Anything beyond that is probably overthinking the question.
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Re: What’s the point of putting the .5 on deer age?
[Re: sbushee]
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02/02/19 11:19 PM
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A more accurate way is to same the number of racks a deer has had. There is a big difference between the 3rd and 4th set of antlers.
They make ammo specifically for hunting for a reason!
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Re: What’s the point of putting the .5 on deer age?
[Re: sbushee]
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02/03/19 05:19 AM
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rifleman
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Odds are it’s what TPWD biologist started (along with once a spike always a spike) and sent it out in a mgmt plan template to everyone interested in the info. That was 40.5 years ago.
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Re: What’s the point of putting the .5 on deer age?
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02/03/19 08:11 PM
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Odds are it’s what TPWD biologist started (along with once a spike always a spike) and sent it out in a mgmt plan template to everyone interested in the info. That was 40.5 years ago.
I read that memo, it was 39 and 15/24 years ago.
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Re: What’s the point of putting the .5 on deer age?
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02/09/19 11:21 PM
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There really isn't one other than the fact that most deer harvested during hunting season were born in the summer. Hence, a mature 5 1/2 year old taken in December. Agreed.....but its kinda dumb if you think about it. I don't tell people my daughter is 5 1/2 years old, so why do we do it with deer? What cracks me up is when people say something like "its 3 1/2, maybe 4 but no older than 4..... I use to be that guy until a couple of my TPWD Biologist buddies told me to pick one or the other and they didn't care which!
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