Ill give my reason after a few responses but I was wondering what others on here thought about the age of this deer. I have my ideas but just want to see if they mesh with everyone else's. Ill show the unedited photos after some response as well.
without any other information or history or condition information on the deer I'd go max 3.5 year old.
Looks like a pretty typical 3.5 to me. No pot belly. Neck doesn't appear to be thickness of an older deer. Normal back.
I think you're withholding information. 2.5 maybe 3 yrs max, based on the neckline and where it meets the body
No information withheld at all. Just and disagreement on age between a few of us. I feel he looks 3.5 while others think 4.5. I was just looking for some outside opinions. It is impossible to know for sure until we get cementum analysis done, after, God willing, one of us shoots him. I was just looking to see what everyone else thought.
Since this photo is in December, he may have lost a considerable amount of body mass from the rut and winter. IMO he is either 3.5 or 4.5. Hard to tell this time of year from body size because all deer are different in the amount of body weight they loose during the rut and winter months.
I think that's the whole point, hide the antlers so they are not a determining factor in your assessment of the bucks age based on the body features. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
The problem is that most people put way too much emphasize on what the antlers look like when aging deer. I believe he was right to take the antlers off because you get a much more accurate opinion from people based on the body.
