#331781 - 08/08/07 05:43 AM
Re: Opinions Appreciated -- Same buck or two different bucks?
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MUP
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I'd say 1.5 and I would say it's the same deer. Good deer tho, with great potential!
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#332085 - 08/08/07 10:33 AM
Re: Opinions Appreciated -- Same buck or two different bucks?
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Wes Parrish
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Loc: Knoxville-Dover-Union City, TN
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I'd say 1.5 and I would say it's the same deer. Good deer tho, with great potential!
I'd say his antlers potentially stopped growing about Nov. 22, 2006. 
NOTE: Someone pulled this thread up from the archives ---- NOTE the DATE of the very first post.
If has since been found out that this buck was 3 1/2 years old in those first pics, and 4 1/2 years old when killed 11-22-06.
BTW, these are probabably near "average" antlers for a 3 1/2 to 4 1/2-yr-old buck in Stewart County (110-115-class). And contrary to what many hunters may think, only half of all bucks will be above average even at full maturity. My guess is the average 5 1/2-yr-old Stewart County buck would only gross around 130, and even less than that on a statewide basis. We just don't see many that old, and when they have smaller than average antlers, they are less likely to be aged or even taken to the taxidermist.
So if "average" were @ 130, then for every one that breaks 150, there's probably another scoring around 110.
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