Howboutthemdawgs
5 year old buck +
This is to piggyback on swampcats thread about average 3.5 score. I see a lot of people speak in definitives when it comes to bucks ages. Admittedly that is one of my big pet peeves in the hunting world. I’ve read research that talked about the wildly inaccurate guesstimating that biologist do when tooth wear aging. I remember an article back in quality white tails that tested biologist on known aged deer using tooth wear aging. Past 2.5 it was horrible. Additionally, though much more accurate past 2.5, cementum annuli testing is also not perfect. Sub 75% or worse, especially with age. So if those two methods by trained experts and essentially AI, are not accurate I dang sure don’t trust the taxidermist to tell me how old a deer is! So how do you really know? I don’t think most of us do if we are being truthful. I think the best we can do is get in a range. I also think history with bucks is a pretty good way to most likely be within a year margin of error. This is the same deer a year apart. Is he 4.5 this year? Is he 5.5? Heck is he 6.5? Who knows. All I can say with conviction is he isn’t 1.5 or 2.5 or 3.5!



