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Potential problems with field-judging age
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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5778784" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>And before anyone mentions it, I want to throw out that the field-judge aging method is by no means perfect. It gets ages wrong. But first, it's the only method we have for aging live bucks and the only way to assess a standing crop of bucks. We can't run around asking all the bucks in a population to open their mouths so we can see their teeth. We can't pull a tooth from each buck and send it away for cementum annuli aging. So we go with field-judging age. How accurate is it? No way to know for sure, and would be heavily influenced by the skill/experience of the one judging the age, but getting to work with clubs over the long haul, I have the opportunity to check my age estimates against the tooth-wear ages of all bucks harvested on properties long-term. My accuracy (field-judge age matches tooth-wear) is right around 85% (whether that is the actual age or not is a question, as tooth-wear aging has it's problems as well). That's not perfect by any means, but it is "good enough" for managing an entire population.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5778784, member: 17"] And before anyone mentions it, I want to throw out that the field-judge aging method is by no means perfect. It gets ages wrong. But first, it's the only method we have for aging live bucks and the only way to assess a standing crop of bucks. We can't run around asking all the bucks in a population to open their mouths so we can see their teeth. We can't pull a tooth from each buck and send it away for cementum annuli aging. So we go with field-judging age. How accurate is it? No way to know for sure, and would be heavily influenced by the skill/experience of the one judging the age, but getting to work with clubs over the long haul, I have the opportunity to check my age estimates against the tooth-wear ages of all bucks harvested on properties long-term. My accuracy (field-judge age matches tooth-wear) is right around 85% (whether that is the actual age or not is a question, as tooth-wear aging has it's problems as well). That's not perfect by any means, but it is "good enough" for managing an entire population. [/QUOTE]
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