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"Age This Buck Pet Peeve"

at1010

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Ok all

Good news: its that time of year where we start to get good bucks on camera, and we all start getting really pumped for deer season.
Bad news: we will get overwhelmed with internet deer biologists, who tell us why the 180in deer is only a 2.5 year old hahaha

(some sarcasm in the above post)

Just have to share my pet peeve! PLEASE DO NOT ESTIMATE A DEERS AGE AND SAY "HE IS 2.5 OR 3"

A DEER IS AGED BY HALF YEARS, SOMETIMES FOLKS WILL SAY 2 YEAR OLD OR 3 YEAR OLD FOR SHORT BUT YOU CANNOT TRY TO JUDGE THEIR AGE BY HALF YEARS, THEY ARE BORN IN SPRING, THEREFORE THEY ARE ALL HALF YEAR OLD IN FALL (HUNTING SEASON)

sorry for the rant, but scoring deer/aging deer might be the worst epidemic in our industry. I constantly see 125inch deer being pimped on the net as 155, 4.5 year old, blah blah blah!
 

giles

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Hahaha! Fawns are also fawns, a yearling is a 1.5 year old deer.

I have a real hard time judging age this time of year. I don't think I'm half bad come hunting season, but this time of year they all look pretty much the same unless standing in a line. And they don't listen at all when you tell them to line up...lol
 

at1010

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But right now wouldn't they be 2.25 or 3.25? :smiley_chinrub:

haha yes and right now the "score" would be irrelevant as we don't kill bucks with velvet on in Ohio.

I have actually seen guys say, that deer is probably a 4.5 year old to a 4.75 year old.....wow that is an amazing biologist estimating that buck hahaha
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Bigcountry40

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sorry for the rant, but scoring deer/aging deer might be the worst epidemic in our industry. I constantly see 125inch deer being pimped on the net as 155, 4.5 year old, blah blah blah!

So your saying that the deer I killed and passing off as a 130" is really a 115"? Damn it! Here I thought I was a bad ass trophy hunter, I'll go back to killing flop tops and spikes.