Forums46
Topics538,024
Posts9,732,001
Members87,055
|
Most Online25,604 Feb 12th, 2024
|
|
|
Age this deer
#6885556
09/12/17 11:40 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 2,057
ChrisB
OP
Veteran Tracker
|
OP
Veteran Tracker
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 2,057 |
|
|
|
Re: Age this deer
[Re: ChrisB]
#6885590
09/13/17 12:18 AM
|
Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 1,850
Merican Duck Hunter
Pro Tracker
|
Pro Tracker
Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 1,850 |
2.5 gonna be a great deer if you can hold off a couple more years
Last edited by Merican Duck Hunter; 09/13/17 12:20 AM.
Arise.Kill.Eat -Acts 10:13 I have read a bunch of stuff on the internet about Star Wars but that does not mean I can skin a deer with a light saber.
|
|
|
Re: Age this deer
[Re: ChrisB]
#6885598
09/13/17 12:29 AM
|
Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 19,498
Erathkid
THF Celebrity
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 19,498 |
First 2 pics looks 2.5. 3rd pic looks a year older. Not knowing where the deer resides, I could be off one direction or the other. Darn nice buck.
Life is too short, as is. Don't chance it. Don't text and drive.
|
|
|
Re: Age this deer
[Re: ChrisB]
#6885601
09/13/17 12:31 AM
|
Joined: Jan 2013
Posts: 19,652
Pitchfork Predator
THF Celebrity
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Jan 2013
Posts: 19,652 |
Looks like a very nice 3 year old.
|
|
|
Re: Age this deer
[Re: ChrisB]
#6885611
09/13/17 12:45 AM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 2,057
ChrisB
OP
Veteran Tracker
|
OP
Veteran Tracker
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 2,057 |
|
|
|
Re: Age this deer
[Re: ChrisB]
#6885612
09/13/17 12:46 AM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 2,057
ChrisB
OP
Veteran Tracker
|
OP
Veteran Tracker
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 2,057 |
These two are last years pics of him.
|
|
|
Re: Age this deer
[Re: Erathkid]
#6885614
09/13/17 12:49 AM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 2,057
ChrisB
OP
Veteran Tracker
|
OP
Veteran Tracker
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 2,057 |
First 2 pics looks 2.5. 3rd pic looks a year older. Not knowing where the deer resides, I could be off one direction or the other. Darn nice buck. Two hours southwest of Dallas.
|
|
|
Re: Age this deer
[Re: ChrisB]
#6885665
09/13/17 01:22 AM
|
Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 11,023
Texas buckeye
THF Celebrity
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 11,023 |
Lol, doesn't look like a 2.5 yo buck or a 3.5 based on those prior year pics. I stated 4.5 I the previous thread you posted him in, and wouldn't vary much more than 5.5 based on past years...might be 5.5 this year but hard to tell. Did he jump a lot of antler this year from Last or is he about the same? If he made a decent jump I would take 5.5...no way he was a 2.5 last year so nothing younger than 4.5....
Do you have a rough idea, been watching him for a few years or just last year?
|
|
|
Re: Age this deer
[Re: ChrisB]
#6885667
09/13/17 01:24 AM
|
Joined: Feb 2012
Posts: 10,472
DQ Kid
THF Celebrity
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Feb 2012
Posts: 10,472 |
Agree buckeye, no deer there younger than 4.0
|
|
|
Re: Age this deer
[Re: ChrisB]
#6885717
09/13/17 02:00 AM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 2,057
ChrisB
OP
Veteran Tracker
|
OP
Veteran Tracker
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 2,057 |
These two pics are from 2015. It was real cold out and my hands were shaking. Hard to see in these blurry cell phone pics but I counted 15 points on him. Had him at 18 yards.
|
|
|
Re: Age this deer
[Re: ChrisB]
#6885734
09/13/17 02:12 AM
|
Joined: Jul 2014
Posts: 106
Guitars&Guns
Woodsman
|
Woodsman
Joined: Jul 2014
Posts: 106 |
I'd say at least 4...good looking deer
|
|
|
Re: Age this deer
[Re: ChrisB]
#6885736
09/13/17 02:14 AM
|
Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 11,023
Texas buckeye
THF Celebrity
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 11,023 |
Were your hands shaking because of cold or adrenaline...I don't think I would feel Cold if he walked up looking like that. Nice looking deer back then.
|
|
|
Re: Age this deer
[Re: ChrisB]
#6885952
09/13/17 12:12 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2013
Posts: 19,652
Pitchfork Predator
THF Celebrity
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Jan 2013
Posts: 19,652 |
I don't think that's the same buck you posted at the top. Brow tines usually don't change that much from previous years.
|
|
|
Re: Age this deer
[Re: Pitchfork Predator]
#6885977
09/13/17 12:44 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 2,057
ChrisB
OP
Veteran Tracker
|
OP
Veteran Tracker
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 2,057 |
Could be possible but I'm pretty sure its him. In 2015 he had those exact same matching flyers off both sides. He has a very distinctive shape to his antlers that I don't see in any other deer out there. I've got his 2014 shed and it may be his biggest.
|
|
|
Re: Age this deer
[Re: Pitchfork Predator]
#6885981
09/13/17 12:49 PM
|
Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 7,806
Deerhunter61
THF Trophy Hunter
|
THF Trophy Hunter
Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 7,806 |
Looks like a very nice 3 year old.
|
|
|
Re: Age this deer
[Re: ChrisB]
#6885984
09/13/17 12:53 PM
|
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 39,549
redchevy
THF Celebrity
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 39,549 |
If that's all him then he is old far beyond his time. Hard to get a clear look, but going from your 2015 cell phone pic I would guess he was fully mature then already. If you said he had his best rack in '14 then that is further proof.
It's hell eatin em live
|
|
|
Re: Age this deer
[Re: Erathkid]
#6885994
09/13/17 12:59 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2009
Posts: 8,719
cameron00
THF Trophy Hunter
|
THF Trophy Hunter
Joined: Jan 2009
Posts: 8,719 |
Yep, given all the information provided, he's probably really old and just losing weight each year.
We shot a buck that everyone thought was a cull 3yr several year back. Game camera pics just made him look young.
Brought him in to age and he was actually 8 or 9. Teeth completely gone, and many scars, etc from year of fighting.
Went back through the years of pics and they were able to backwards trace him like 7 years. Was relatively unimpressive his entire time, so apart from noting that he should be probably be shot, nobody ever paid much attention to him and he never showed up during the season.
|
|
|
Re: Age this deer
[Re: redchevy]
#6885995
09/13/17 01:00 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 2,057
ChrisB
OP
Veteran Tracker
|
OP
Veteran Tracker
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 2,057 |
I personally think he is like that friend of yours that's 6' tall 150 pounds his whole life. We have argued about his age for a long time. He was on the don't shoot list in 2015 because his body shape fools you. I watched him for 20 minutes in 15 and almost let an arrow fly anyways. Saw him in person again last year and let an arrow fly only to watch him run off with no arrow penetration. I don't know his age for sure but if I'm correct he can't be younger than 6.5.
|
|
|
Re: Age this deer
[Re: ChrisB]
#6886000
09/13/17 01:01 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2013
Posts: 19,652
Pitchfork Predator
THF Celebrity
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Jan 2013
Posts: 19,652 |
Could be possible but I'm pretty sure its him. In 2015 he had those exact same matching flyers off both sides. He has a very distinctive shape to his antlers that I don't see in any other deer out there. I've got his 2014 shed and it may be his biggest. Throat patch is much more pronounced on the last pics you posted. Not the same buck IMO.
|
|
|
Re: Age this deer
[Re: Pitchfork Predator]
#6886094
09/13/17 02:23 PM
|
Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 11,023
Texas buckeye
THF Celebrity
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 11,023 |
Could be possible but I'm pretty sure its him. In 2015 he had those exact same matching flyers off both sides. He has a very distinctive shape to his antlers that I don't see in any other deer out there. I've got his 2014 shed and it may be his biggest. Throat patch is much more pronounced on the last pics you posted. Not the same buck IMO. It may be the camera picture catching some glare too, but the deer in the last pics has a prominent white band around his nose, where the deer shown first doesn't have that at all. I think you may be on to something, not sure, but maybe....could still be glare.
|
|
|
Re: Age this deer
[Re: ChrisB]
#6886119
09/13/17 02:40 PM
|
Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 1,213
tShawnB
Pro Tracker
|
Pro Tracker
Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 1,213 |
Whoever said 2.5 are the guys I need to be hunting with.
How come everybody I meet is a deer hunting expert?
|
|
|
Re: Age this deer
[Re: ChrisB]
#6886167
09/13/17 03:13 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2012
Posts: 349
JHeflinland
Bird Dog
|
Bird Dog
Joined: Dec 2012
Posts: 349 |
Those are all the same deer.
Based off of previous pics, and the shed from 2014, I'd say he is at least 6 this year, but I think he is closer to 8. Some deer just don't express all of the typical characteristics that we look for to age them.
He is a lot older than anyone else thinks. In regard to brow tines, the point that they come off the beams won't change, but they will get shorter/longer as they age.
Some deer will peak at 3.5, some will peak at 7.5... like people. Some kids are really good at football in 7th grade because they grew so much faster than everyone else, then they are just average when they are seniors in high school, because everyone caught up to them.
If ducks had horns I'd probably be a duck hunter. I am a horrible deer hunter. Probably the worst. Ever.
|
|
|
Moderated by bigbob_ftw, CCBIRDDOGMAN, Chickenman, Derek, DeRico, Duck_Hunter, hetman, jeh7mmmag, JustWingem, kmon11, kry226, kwrhuntinglab, Payne, pertnear, rifleman, sig226fan (Rguns.com), Superduty, TreeBass, txcornhusker
|