Thoughts on age
Contributors to this thread:Whitetail Deer
From: Shug
01-Feb-24
Don’t have any live photos but by tooth wear what do ya think this bucks age is? Also one odd thing is how he had excessive wear inline mid jaw which I thought was odd..
Teeth are being sent out to be aged.. Just thought I’d get opinions here…
From: Shug
01-Feb-24
From: Shug
01-Feb-24
From: fuzzy
01-Feb-24
Wow! 6 plus is my best guess
From: drycreek
01-Feb-24
Depending on soils where he lived, between 6 and 8. He was certainly a mature buck. Jawbone aging has been proven to be only about 50% accurate and cementum annuli not much better at 60%.
From: Insheart
01-Feb-24
Hmmmm, I've never seen anything like that before. Must be the spot where he mostly chews on sticks??
From: Scoot
01-Feb-24
Shug- my thought is that you are pretty darn old. Looking older all the time (kinda like me). :)
From: Rgiesey
01-Feb-24
My experience is that age is bad
From: Jimmyjumpup
01-Feb-24
Being a dentist I would crown all of those teeth. Severe wear.
From: BwanaND
01-Feb-24
Perhaps wear from the bit? ;-)
From: RonP
01-Feb-24
what part of the country? :)
From: greg simon
01-Feb-24
It looks like he might have fractured those two teeth. I don't see any way that could be a bilateral wear pattern unless there is a serious malformation of the maxilla.
From: 12yards
01-Feb-24
As old as the dirt in the background. LOL. Looks old to me.
From: Shug
01-Feb-24
Ty guys except the mean ones… Ron Mexico
From: milnrick
01-Feb-24
I'm in Drycreek's camp. 6-8... leaning closer to 6 though.
From: Bwhnt
01-Feb-24
He is old as he is gonna get
From: Bent arrow
01-Feb-24
Agein sucks. Me est 8 at least.
From: arlone
02-Feb-24
I like the "bit" explanation, was he shot around Christmas? Did he have a red nose, cause I have read somewhere that the other 8 are all females?
From: Shug
02-Feb-24
Thanks guys.. Bwana.. no not a bit
Is kinda odd though
From: DL
02-Feb-24
This buck I shot was nearing the end. He had front teeth missing.
From: Lee
13-Feb-24
When I see a deer like that come through the check station I just put 8.5+ in my data sheet. I can’t age them past that. Old deer for sure.
Lee
From: Bow Crazy
26-Feb-24
I agree with Lee and others, that is an old deer. 8+ if not 10+. I would say it pretty rare to see teeth wear like that. I have been aging deer using the TWM and have only come across one dee like that. It was a dead doe someone found in an urban setting/no hunting allowed. The fourth tooth in the mouth, the first molar, is the oldest tooth in a deer mouth. So, one would expect that one to look the roughest on an old monarch. BC
From: Corax_latrans
26-Feb-24
Head-shot(s) gone wrong?
From: Jack Harris
26-Feb-24
Can anyone guess the age of this mature buck?
From: Jack Harris
26-Feb-24
and that was a little TBM retro-humor, for those that recall....
From: Corax_latrans
26-Feb-24
Head-shot(s) gone wrong?
