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<blockquote data-quote="Dennis" data-source="post: 5519943" data-attributes="member: 20424"><p>From a management perspective, I thought the only purpose of age data was simple long term trends. What other uses are there for it?</p><p></p><p>If you're talking about satisfying a hunter's curiosity for example, I'm not sure the accuracy is good enough with any of the methods to matter. Our field judgments are probably as accurate as the rest of the methods.</p><p></p><p>I figure the best we can do is tell a yearling from a 2.5 with a fairly high degree of accuracy, a 2.5 from a 3.5 with a bit less accuracy, and a deer older than 3.5 with less accuracy yet. Telling a 4.5 from a 5.5 , etc, is a fool's errand without some history with the animal to rely on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dennis, post: 5519943, member: 20424"] From a management perspective, I thought the only purpose of age data was simple long term trends. What other uses are there for it? If you’re talking about satisfying a hunter’s curiosity for example, I’m not sure the accuracy is good enough with any of the methods to matter. Our field judgments are probably as accurate as the rest of the methods. I figure the best we can do is tell a yearling from a 2.5 with a fairly high degree of accuracy, a 2.5 from a 3.5 with a bit less accuracy, and a deer older than 3.5 with less accuracy yet. Telling a 4.5 from a 5.5 , etc, is a fool’s errand without some history with the animal to rely on. [/QUOTE]
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