We followed a buck 4+ years...we would guess him at 7½ minimum last year...last two years of his life he had gone down in score but had super mass...tines got short...main beams lost a little legnth...but he held tremendous mass...we actually picked up single sheds two different years and a matched set one year...knew the buck very well but never saw him in the daylight...mostly night time trail cam pics...Sadly our neighbors found him dead for unknown reasons early last fall..old age maybe? No apparent injuries?....But he died on his own terms...we never could catch him slip up....smart old buck.