Age This deer

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  1. Tim Ainsworth

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    Cdyi0055.jpg A guy I hunt with is set on thinking this deer is 4. I think he is 2. What are you thoughts?
     

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  3. headstrong

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    Kind of depends on where you live. Small body and a bigger rack. I would say 3.
     
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    I would say 3, but im no expert
     
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    Do you have any better pictures of him?
     
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    Any pictures where he is not extending his neck, standing upright?

    From this one pic looks to me to be a 2 possibly a 3.
     
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    Fwwwthmp .. pull the jaw bone and have it aged. Then you'll know... I am guessing less than 4 though.
     
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    2 or 3
     
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    The big question is where do you live? If you're in the Midwest I'd say 2 or 3. If you're in the South then he's probably 4.
     
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    I say 3, I dont think he's 4. Do you have any more pics? A frontal view would help.
     
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    4+ I don't know of any wild 2 years olds that look like that.
     
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    Look like what? Are you baseing it off the antler growth?
     
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    I am goin with 4 as well. That deer is absolute minimum 3 years old, no possible way its 2
     
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    Looks older in the second (colored) pic. More pot-bellied... maybe 4. "Choot'm"
     
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    Yep, the antlers, the big front end and long head.

    Summer deer are tuff to age. But that's no youngster.
     
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    I'm going to say 2 but I am no Biologist. I'm looking at the long snout. they get shorter with age.
     
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    looks like a 3
     
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    2 or3

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    3.5 or older . A shooter for sure !!!
     
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    ^This is what i was thinking^
     
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    Are we sure both pics are the same deer? In the closer pic it looks like his G2 and G3 on his left are very close together, maybe even a common base. On the far away pic it looks like a smaller rack with more spread out tines?
     
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