Another old goat

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DeerCamp said:
Hey Catman, won't even wage a guess on age but will you let us know if there is a difference in meat flavor/quality vs a typical doe?
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I was wondering the same! my grandaddy wouldn't kill a big old doe for meat because he said they was tough wonder what this one would be like
 
catman529 said:
Yes I'm going to do a video on it. The meat smelled clean and fresh like any good deer meat, haven't cooked any yet. I had to be extra careful skinning her out because her tarsals stunk, they were soaked in piss. Didn't want to get any of that on the meat, got her cleaned up nicely and trimmed all the bloody meat out of the wound holes.
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You have probably shared this before, but woukd you share the name of the lab you use?
Sorry if it's a duicate question. Just curious if you have one you prefer. Should I ever be fortunate to harvest an old deer.
Thanks and wow is she old. Like a dinosaur!
 
megalomaniac said:
A little different wear pattern, but I still think the one you killed a couple days ago looks older.

As light as she was, even considering she was dry, did she have any fat over her backstraps? (I suspect not much :) ) she was not long for this world even if you hadn't caused her untimely demise!
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Not much fat on the backstraps, just the usual tallow around the hips, front of shoulders, and above the tail. Most of the deer I've killed this year were like that. She was healthy but small, even the skeleton was small. I saved the ribs too, haven't cooked deer ribs in a while.
 
Wolverine72 said:
You have probably shared this before, but woukd you share the name of the lab you use?
Sorry if it's a duicate question. Just curious if you have one you prefer. Should I ever be fortunate to harvest an old deer.
Thanks and wow is she old. Like a dinosaur!
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Wildlife analytical laboratories, DeerAge.com.
 
Spurhunter said:
That's wild. I was just thinking about the focus on aging deer these days and it occurred to me, I've been deer hunting 35 years, and of all the deer I've killed, I've never looked in a one's mouth. I've just never thought about it.
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I've always found it interesting, maybe something to do with BSK posting the aging info here years ago when I first got into hunting.

This year has been interesting. I've shot deer ranging from a 4-5 month old fawn during bow season, to however old this doe is. And my oldest buck to date that I let walk last year thinking he was younger.

The younger deer I don't bother pulling the jawbones, I just take a quick look to confirm it's a younger deer, usually in the 1.5-3.5 range. I find it really interesting seeing how long a deer lived in the woods before it finally fell to a hunter.
 

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