Jawbone age please

[WORM82]

I'm thinking 3.5.

 

[DeerCamp]

I'll be the first to tell you I don't like jawbone aging. I've seen it underestimate several deer an varies with diet.

That said, that deer is leaning 2.5 to me if you are going by the classic charts.

Just keep in mind its a minimum age, so it would be 2.5+

 

[catman529]

2.5

Premolars are a lighter shade of brown suggesting they're pretty fresh. And the molars don't show the typical amount of wear for a deer 3.5 or older.

 

[WORM82]

If so he was a top end 2yo. Heaviest deer I have killed plus from northeast TN. He field dressed 170lbs and was alot longer than what I figured was a 2yo beside him in tractor pic

 

[megalomaniac]

Jawbone is 2.5

Body looks 4.5. Body conformation is more accurate IMO.

 

[Andy S.]

Teeth suggest 2.5, so as others have stated, AT LEAST 2.5. We all know they can be older than toothwear suggests.

 

[TN Larry]

Jawbone says 2.5 but only shows minimum age. You can't age a dead deer but definitely looks older in the pics.

 

[catman529]

Jawbone is 2.5

Body looks 4.5. Body conformation is more accurate IMO.

Not on the deer I just killed. Mine was almost the opposite

I agree the deer looks at least 3.5. If you saved the front teeth, you can send em in to the lab and get a more accurate guess. Either way he's a heck of a deer most of us would be happy to shoot! Congrats

 

[megalomaniac]

Not on the deer I just killed. Mine was almost the opposite

I agree the deer looks at least 3.5. If you saved the front teeth, you can send em in to the lab and get a more accurate guess. Either way he's a heck of a deer most of us would be happy to shoot! Congrats

How do you know it was the opposite? Did you follow him since 2.5?

I've killed deer in the past (in south MS with very sandy soils) that were 3.5, but the jawbone said 4.5!

I've also killed bucks that had a 2 year age difference between the left and right sides.

I was all about jawbone age in the past (5yrs ago) as being the defining characteristic in determing a deers age. Having years of watching the same bucks grow up, then kill them, I now know it just a part (but not the defining) of multiple characteristics I use to determine age.

 

[catman529]

How do you know it was the opposite? Did you follow him since 2.5?

I've killed deer in the past (in south MS with very sandy soils) that were 3.5, but the jawbone said 4.5!

I've also killed bucks that had a 2 year age difference between the left and right sides.

I was all about jawbone age in the past (5yrs ago) as being the defining characteristic in determing a deers age. Having years of watching the same bucks grow up, then kill them, I now know it just a part (but not the defining) of multiple characteristics I use to determine age.

This was not sandy soil and was in an area where deer are smaller on average. Guessed him at 3.5 last year and 4.5 this year. Jawbones are showing 5.5 or older. I have killed a doe in the same spot that went 14.5 per cementum annuli aging, so I am sending the front teeth off to the lab and see what they say.

 

[WORM82]

Only pics of what I think is same deer

 

[Andy S.]

^^ Looks 3.5 in those pics.

 

[mike243]

took 1 to have cked in and aged a few years ago, bunch of deer layed out and was watching the game wardens saying 2.5 1.5 and when they got to mine 1 GW said 2.5 and 2 others said 3.5, frame on mine was a lot bigger than any of the other 2.5 , also weighed 164lbs dressed, the others were 125-130 , he stated he was a top end 2.5 . I thought and still think 3.5 due to the frame size. I don't think teeth aging is always accurate by looking at them.

 

[Andy S.]

I don't think teeth aging is always accurate by looking at them.

That is a fact, no question about it.

 

[Snake]

Awful big 2.5 but never the less he's not getting any older , congrats on the buck .