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DeadEye11

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I have a couple bucks that I'm looking forward to hunting this season! What do you think the age is of the big wide one and the first two bucks?
 

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Really hard for me to venture a guess on these.
More pics & time should be your friend.

For the time being,
I can't say that any look to be more than 2 1/2,
and the one you most want to know about is the one we can least tell about.

Is the "big wide one" (2nd picture) the same buck as the one on the left in the top picture?
 
TheLBLman":c8bdbvy3 said:
Really hard for me to venture a guess on these.
More pics & time should be your friend.

For the time being,
I can't say that any look to be more than 2 1/2,
and the one you most want to know about is the one we can least tell about.

Is the "big wide one" (2nd picture) the same buck as the one on the left in the top picture?
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No those wide one is a 9pt and the top one is a 7pt with only one brow tine. I have more pictures but it only let me post 3.
 
None appear to be mature at this stage... But there's quite a few to look at and some are not at the best angles. I feel pretty comfortable saying the buck to the left in the first pic is 3.5, but none of the bucks have the depth of chest I would expect for a mature buck. Heck, tho... even if you shoot 2 of any of the bucks you posted pics of, you're gonna have a banner year next year!
 
megalomaniac":1fyg2llc said:
Heck, tho... even if you shoot 2 of any of the bucks you posted pics of, you're gonna have a banner year next year!
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That's not a "given" :)
What if your neighbors shoot three?

Most us tend to look at the deer we capture on pics as "ours",
even though those bucks may spend more of their time on other hunters' land, especially during the rut.

I do agree that the oldest looking buck in the above pics is likely 3 1/2.
We're all at various stages in our hunting, and if I had never killed a 3 1/2 or older, I'd likely be targeting that one. But at my stage in the game, he's the one I'd be least likely to shoot, as the only way you get mature bucks is by not killing them before they're mature.

Also, at least for the moment, I cannot rule out the possibility of that oldest looking one being a top-end 2 1/2.
 

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