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Interesting article on deer kill statistics
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<blockquote data-quote="Ski" data-source="post: 5549524" data-attributes="member: 20583"><p>I imagine something like that is exactly what's going on. I don't know of any statewide check stations with biologists aging deer killed on both public and private lands. So they've got to be estimating numbers somehow. Having run many, many trails cameras year round for many, many years, I have doubts that anybody could accurately estimate buck ages by using tine count. It's such an individually random thing from one deer to the next. Case in point, one buck may have 8pts at 1.5yrs & have 8pts it's entire life. Another buck may be a spike at 1.5yrs & progressively add tines each successive year. Both those situations happen often enough that predicting the odds would be a coin toss at best. To publish statistics as gospel I'd think there should be concrete data to support it. Anything shy of that would inevitably be misleading.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ski, post: 5549524, member: 20583"] I imagine something like that is exactly what's going on. I don't know of any statewide check stations with biologists aging deer killed on both public and private lands. So they've got to be estimating numbers somehow. Having run many, many trails cameras year round for many, many years, I have doubts that anybody could accurately estimate buck ages by using tine count. It's such an individually random thing from one deer to the next. Case in point, one buck may have 8pts at 1.5yrs & have 8pts it's entire life. Another buck may be a spike at 1.5yrs & progressively add tines each successive year. Both those situations happen often enough that predicting the odds would be a coin toss at best. To publish statistics as gospel I'd think there should be concrete data to support it. Anything shy of that would inevitably be misleading. [/QUOTE]
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