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Age of antlerless deer harvests.
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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 817775" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>From Mickey Hellickson's research into the accuracy of the Severinghuas Tooth-wear Aging technique, he found that as tooth-wear indicated age gets older, there is an increasing chance the deer is actually older than indicated. By the time tooth-wear indicates a deer is 4 1/2 there is actually a better-then-even chance that the deer is actually 5 1/2. By the time toothwear indicates 5 1/2 almost all deer are actually 1 to 2 years older than that. By the time you hit 6 1/2 by toothwear, a deer can be several years older than indicated.</p><p></p><p>Generally that's where most tooth-aging ends. The deer is simply classified as 6 1/2+. Anything beyond that is an educated guess, and every time I've seen these very old deers' ages guestimated, cementum annuli testing suggest the deer is much older. My ex-boss killed a buck in Kansas we both thought was probably 7 1/2 by tooth-wear aging. Cementum annuli indicated the bucks was actually 11 1/2 years old.</p><p></p><p>The toothwear aging technique is quite good at producing <em>minimum</em> ages, so I like the technique for that very reason. From a management standpoint, I would rather under-age a deer than over-age a deer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 817775, member: 17"] From Mickey Hellickson's research into the accuracy of the Severinghuas Tooth-wear Aging technique, he found that as tooth-wear indicated age gets older, there is an increasing chance the deer is actually older than indicated. By the time tooth-wear indicates a deer is 4 1/2 there is actually a better-then-even chance that the deer is actually 5 1/2. By the time toothwear indicates 5 1/2 almost all deer are actually 1 to 2 years older than that. By the time you hit 6 1/2 by toothwear, a deer can be several years older than indicated. Generally that's where most tooth-aging ends. The deer is simply classified as 6 1/2+. Anything beyond that is an educated guess, and every time I've seen these very old deers' ages guestimated, cementum annuli testing suggest the deer is much older. My ex-boss killed a buck in Kansas we both thought was probably 7 1/2 by tooth-wear aging. Cementum annuli indicated the bucks was actually 11 1/2 years old. The toothwear aging technique is quite good at producing [i]minimum[/i] ages, so I like the technique for that very reason. From a management standpoint, I would rather under-age a deer than over-age a deer. [/QUOTE]
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