Age? ( teeth added) to comments

[Flintlocksforme]

Public land , no trail cam pictures. Long legs, no brisket, belly, ham. Even his nose , head and tail were short. No body fat.

 

[Flintlocksforme]

 

[Flintlocksforme]

 

[Snake]

Probably a really good racked 2.5 but thinking he's 3.5 .

 

[TN Larry]

Got any pics of the lower jaw bone? It's really hard to tell on a dead deer. However, the pictures of him laying on the ground indicate a big neck and deep chest. Also, the mass and junk at the bases suggest an older deer. I thinks he's run down and at least 3.5 and most likely 4.5.

Either way, congrats on a really nice buck.

 

[backyardtndeer]

That's a really nice deer. Probably a rundown 3.5. Really is hard to tell from those pics though.

 

[cbhunter]

3.5 at least judging my neck

 

[Wrangler95]

Nice buck,congrats!!

 

[Southern Sportsman]

Deer like this make me think it's all just a guess. Lets see the teeth.

 

[Flintlocksforme]

Got any pics of the lower jaw bone? It's really hard to tell on a dead deer. However, the pictures of him laying on the ground indicate a big neck and deep chest. Also, the mass and junk at the bases suggest an older deer. I thinks he's run down and at least 3.5 and most likely 4.5.

Either way, congrats on a really nice buck.

I am saving head for Euro mount. I will examine it then

 

[Flintlocksforme]

Deer like this make me think it's all just a guess. Lets see the teeth.

I will post teeth later when I do euro mount. I teach school and like age kids develop at all different rates. In middle school some look like the parents of their classmates. Over 6 feet tall and shaving. Why do we think deer bodies all grow at the same rate?

 

[Snake]

Deer like this make me think it's all just a guess. Lets see the teeth.

That's a guess as well .....

 

[Rabbitkil]

I will post teeth later when I do euro mount. I teach school and like age kids develop at all different rates. In middle school some look like the parents of their classmates. Over 6 feet tall and shaving. Why do we think deer bodies all grow at the same rate?

Statistics

 

[fairchaser]

Some bucks have small bodies and large racks and vice versa. The teeth will reveal more about his age.

 

[Ski]

Small body 4.5. The pic on ground before gutted and hung shows a neck as thick as torso. Even strung up stretched out with no innards his neck base is nearly as broad as chest. That's a small body rut shrunken 4.5yr old. But if I'm wrong.....I'm wrong lol

 

[ttf909]

I'm not buying that rack on a young buck. Teeth will tell the story

 

[Gravey]

Great buck regardless. Possibly run down from the rut.

 

[Flintlocksforme]

Long legged I guess too

 

[Ski]

I'd also add that deer in big woods hill country travel significantly farther and more often and in much rougher terrain than bucks in flat ag country. I rarely see bucks on my place that get fat & slobby looking. Big country steep terrain keeps them in shape. Get down in the river bottom ag and those suckers start looking like Al Bundy.

Here's what old mountain bucks look like.

And here's what old ag country bucks look like.

 

[Hillbilly Hunter]

Small body 4.5. The pic on ground before gutted and hung shows a neck as thick as torso. Even strung up stretched out with no innards his neck base is nearly as broad as chest. That's a small body rut shrunken 4.5yr old. But if I'm wrong.....I'm wrong lol

I agree