Thanks J-bird. I actually have 4 years of pictures of him, and its pretty obvious he was 5 years old. He was an average to above average 3 year old and I let him walk that year. I watched him tend a doe for about 2 hours one afternoon during gun season.
As a 4 year old he was a ghost. The whole year I had one daylight picture of him and it was at the crack of dawn during the rut, but he was living in my sanctuary and I got pics each night. I thought he was un-killable.
The year I got him as a 5 year old he had been giving several daylight pics at the edge of thick cover. But, I had never had a daylight pic at the spot I shot him. 2013 was a good buck year on my place. There were 2 other big deer and several 3 year olds.