How Old?

[Oklahomabassin]

I would bet eastern oklahoma buck. 3.5 years old. jaw bone is about the only way to tell accurately.

 

[oneshotonekill]

Without the jaw bone, I would say 4.5. He has some decent mass but no tell tale signs of old age.

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

I'd say 3.5 if he's been eating a lot of good protein and other nutrients. 4.5 if not. He's not that thick through the body.

What did his rack score?

jaw bone is about the only way to tell accurately.

and even then, that's far from foolproof.

 

[dennishoddy]

My guess would be 4.5 yrs old. He didn't show the signs of a sagging belly, but he was pretty lean dressing out at 125#.
The flat forehead kind of trigged my guess. Wish you'd kept the jaw, that would have been a very exceptional buck for 3.5

 

[msanders]

Straight back, flat belly, no roman nose, younger deer, three and a half maybe four

I agree!

 

[aturp]

He's a green country buck. Unfortunately I don't have the jaw bone. I did look at his teeth but am not very good at telling the age by looking at the teeth. Green score was 176 gross, 158 net.

 

[JW/OK]

After studying these pictures I'm starting to think these pictures are of two different deer. Study the forks on the end of the main beams. Pictures on game cam has stickers in the fork while the harvested deer has clean forks. Just thinking out loud - what do you think?

 

[aturp]

I'm pretty sure it's the same deer.

 

[jmiller45]

3 1/2 or 4. Very nice!