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<blockquote data-quote="Ski" data-source="post: 5550808" data-attributes="member: 20583"><p>With only 7 tines to score, that is a very, very impressive score! That buck would look at home next to any booner I've ever seen. He's actually more impressive than a lot of high scoring bucks in terms of frame. That dude was a tank!</p><p></p><p>On a side note, aside from judging age via trail cam, what makes you believe he was only 3.5? Could he have been older than you think? That was kind of my point about noting the discrepancy between MSU's study and situations like the bucks you just showed. In a controlled environment with virtually no stress, nothing to wear the buck down, and all the nutrition it could possibly need, their bucks never got that big at that age. Your buck was wild surviving the harsh conditions of winters, ruts, seasonal shifts, stretches of time with lack of quality food, etc. Does it not seem odd that a 3yr old roughing it can get that big but one in captivity cannot? </p><p></p><p>Don't take me wrong. I'm not saying your deer isn't 3.5yrs old. I really don't know. I judge deer age same way everybody else does, same way the science tells us to. But then I see these MSU studies & notice what seems to be a disconnect, but I'm not sure at what end. It's as if 2 + 2 doesn't = 4.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ski, post: 5550808, member: 20583"] With only 7 tines to score, that is a very, very impressive score! That buck would look at home next to any booner I've ever seen. He's actually more impressive than a lot of high scoring bucks in terms of frame. That dude was a tank! On a side note, aside from judging age via trail cam, what makes you believe he was only 3.5? Could he have been older than you think? That was kind of my point about noting the discrepancy between MSU's study and situations like the bucks you just showed. In a controlled environment with virtually no stress, nothing to wear the buck down, and all the nutrition it could possibly need, their bucks never got that big at that age. Your buck was wild surviving the harsh conditions of winters, ruts, seasonal shifts, stretches of time with lack of quality food, etc. Does it not seem odd that a 3yr old roughing it can get that big but one in captivity cannot? Don't take me wrong. I'm not saying your deer isn't 3.5yrs old. I really don't know. I judge deer age same way everybody else does, same way the science tells us to. But then I see these MSU studies & notice what seems to be a disconnect, but I'm not sure at what end. It's as if 2 + 2 doesn't = 4. [/QUOTE]
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