How old you think?

4.5 or 5.5. Some discussion from earlier this year at the link below. I could see it go either way but I have him down as 5.5 and am basing that off the pics and in person sighting of him from 2022-2023 when I thought he was a 3yr old.

https://texashuntingforum.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/9084317/re-culling-decision#Post9084317

I’ve got some bucks in the 7.5-9.5 age range I would rather pull the trigger on so I don’t feel rushed to shoot with the 5yr olds.

He's a tall one I'm guessing he is 5.5, if so what age do y'all hold off to before taking one?

Depends on the individual buck, their range, and how big we think they could get. If they are deer that we know live fully within our property then we will probably give a buck another year or two compared to a buck we know lives elsewhere and ventures in only occasionally. A basic smaller framed 8pt will get opened up at 5.5 and there is usually a cull or two we don’t like anything about that we will take out at an earlier age.

We are landowners not leasers so the only folks that have to align to the rules are my dad and I. The bucks we’ve killed the last couple years have been between 6.5-8.5 and there are usually 5-10 bucks that meet our criteria of huntable deer. That said they get old for a reason and a good handful of those will likely never get shot by us or others.