how old is this buck???

Bit of a tough angle but I'm going with closer to spotted fawn than 7.5 yr old.

Kind looks like cut and paste

8,9,10

Big ole feets, sagging jawline, wide head, large eyes. Boy been around a time or two.

So is anyone going to give the answer

Rear end is jacked up in the air. Don’t know what that means. If he was in AL I’d guess 3, but since you said Texas I’ll guess 4.

Bang flop and a 1/2 years old.

All right gents. This is a live deer in the Texas Hill country. Age is NOT known. I got it off a Texas hunting forum and 90% of them said 3.5, so I posted it here for ya'll.

I think the deer is past prime, prolly a 7 er 8 year old. Legs are shorter looking which says 5-6 to me. Add badly sagging jowl skin which is NEVER found on young deer but shows on bucks when they reach 7-8 years old.


so did you give them Texans a good learnin on how to age unicorns?
I think he is just one of those smallish body size bucks that are hard to age, but are usually way older than first glance will tell you.

All deer don't age the same. I've seen known-aged pen deer that people would estimate at 2-3 years old when they were 10+. Sometimes once they reach that age they're just like an 85 year old man, losing muscle mass, having protruding facial features, and sagging skin around the jaw line. You gotta look at more than sagging bellies and leg lengths when they get old. That deer is definitely old.

I'm no expert but I think aging Texas deer can be difficult. They just don't have the body mass to develop the sway back, sagging belly look of an old Midwest deer. We had an old 5 pt on camera this past year at our club that looked like a fat boar hog with antlers. He survived the season.

Lots of good info in this thread.

are you drinking this early?

Regardless of where you are in the country deer age with the same features, whether they are 150 lbs or 350 lbs. I've seen some mighty respectable south TX deer. Not uncommon to see them at or over 200 lbs. they're a lot like our deer in most of AL on body mass. Individual differences in how deer age play a bigger part than does location or body mass. There are small puny looking deer and muscled up freaks in the same population, just like you see in people. I'm one of those small puny looking ones, so I can tell what they look like in a hurry. Lol.

Antlers are not supposed to play any role in aging.

Well in our area with age comes mass so yes we can generally age via rack. Also with the differing guesses can we do much more then SWAG via body size.

Do yall really think that you cant guesstimate a deers age out to 3.5 due to rack.

Do yall really think that you cant guesstimate a deers age out to 3.5 due to rack.

I'm pretty good at guesstimating racks

Me too. I'm thinking you're a 34C

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