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<blockquote data-quote="greengiant" data-source="post: 2014820" data-attributes="member: 99935"><p>Sorry to disagree with your analogy for judging age. Antlers are the last and least important feature to use in judging the age of a buck. BoomFlop gave you the best advice I have seen on here. Having hunted and managed the largest whitetail deer hunting club in our area for forty years with the last 30+ years participating in our states herd management, I have harvested 100+ deer and witnessed several thousand. Each was weighed, measured, photographed, jawbone pulled, and aged by a State Wildlife Biologist. No expert, but, I do have a lot of hands-on experience. Think about this. Place four males clothed only in undershorts behind a barrier that only blocked your view of them from their shoulders up. Can you tell the young, from the prime adult, from the old man by simply looking at their body features? Absolutely you can. Deer are no different. Your photographs, while not very sharp, do give an adequate detail of the buck's body features and they yell, loud & clear, "Young Buck!" Kill him and he will not pass on his above-average genes to future generations. Let him walk and breed for several more years and not only will you be rewarded with generations of offspring for yourself and your kids & grandkids. A consistent quality herd requires intense management practices. Bucks normally mature at 3.5-4.5 years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greengiant, post: 2014820, member: 99935"] Sorry to disagree with your analogy for judging age. Antlers are the last and least important feature to use in judging the age of a buck. BoomFlop gave you the best advice I have seen on here. Having hunted and managed the largest whitetail deer hunting club in our area for forty years with the last 30+ years participating in our states herd management, I have harvested 100+ deer and witnessed several thousand. Each was weighed, measured, photographed, jawbone pulled, and aged by a State Wildlife Biologist. No expert, but, I do have a lot of hands-on experience. Think about this. Place four males clothed only in undershorts behind a barrier that only blocked your view of them from their shoulders up. Can you tell the young, from the prime adult, from the old man by simply looking at their body features? Absolutely you can. Deer are no different. Your photographs, while not very sharp, do give an adequate detail of the buck's body features and they yell, loud & clear, "Young Buck!" Kill him and he will not pass on his above-average genes to future generations. Let him walk and breed for several more years and not only will you be rewarded with generations of offspring for yourself and your kids & grandkids. A consistent quality herd requires intense management practices. Bucks normally mature at 3.5-4.5 years. [/QUOTE]
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