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<blockquote data-quote="Ski" data-source="post: 5815697" data-attributes="member: 20583"><p>I've always heard that but in my experience a buck with saggy chest & sway back usually means mature, but doesn't mean every mature buck has to have it. I've lots of pics & videos of very mature deer that have no sway in the back or anything sagging. It's especially true late in the season after a couple months of hard rutting. </p><p></p><p>This buck I killed last year never did get a swayed back, big belly, or big chest and I have pics going back to the 2018 season. I guessed him at 3.5 back then and aside from a couple pics where he looks <em>maybe</em> 4.5 I would have guessed him as a 3.5yr old every year since if I didn't know better. He looked like a 3.5yr old for 5 years. Same 10pt frame the entire time that hardly changed except gained mass & brows lengthened. Actually I think his 2021 rack was his biggest as a 6.5yr old. He was 7.5yrs when I killed him, and wasn't as gray as the one in my original post. </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]211039[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]211029[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]211032[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]211034[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]211035[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ski, post: 5815697, member: 20583"] I've always heard that but in my experience a buck with saggy chest & sway back usually means mature, but doesn't mean every mature buck has to have it. I've lots of pics & videos of very mature deer that have no sway in the back or anything sagging. It's especially true late in the season after a couple months of hard rutting. This buck I killed last year never did get a swayed back, big belly, or big chest and I have pics going back to the 2018 season. I guessed him at 3.5 back then and aside from a couple pics where he looks [I]maybe[/I] 4.5 I would have guessed him as a 3.5yr old every year since if I didn't know better. He looked like a 3.5yr old for 5 years. Same 10pt frame the entire time that hardly changed except gained mass & brows lengthened. Actually I think his 2021 rack was his biggest as a 6.5yr old. He was 7.5yrs when I killed him, and wasn't as gray as the one in my original post. [ATTACH type="full"]211039[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full"]211029[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full"]211032[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full"]211034[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full"]211035[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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