Buck aging without seeing antlers..

TNlandowner · 2024-10-26T10:20:28-0500

branden said:
Let's see the rest..

Here he is....

TNlandowner · 2024-10-26T10:31:56-0500

Here is another buck that fooled us...... younger and smaller than the summer (August) photo.

DoubleRidge · 2024-10-26T10:40:39-0500

4.5 minimum no doubt

TNlandowner · 2024-10-26T10:50:29-0500

The cool thing is I took BSK's trail camera advice. Yesterday, I got to watch videos of both these bucks up close.

Snake · 2024-10-26T11:00:51-0500

BSK said:
At least 4 1/2. Maybe 5+

I don't use antlers to age bucks. Doing that will produce a ton of mistakes, and some really big mistakes.

My thoughts exactly !

megalomaniac · 2024-10-26T11:32:35-0500

TNlandowner said:
Here is another buck that fooled us...... younger and smaller than the summer (August) photo.
View attachment 248947

How did he fool you? Obviously mature

BSK · 2024-10-26T11:38:32-0500

TNlandowner said:
The cool thing is I took BSK's trail camera advice. Yesterday, I got to watch videos of both these bucks up close.

It is so much easier to identify age and antler configuration from HD video than from even the highest resolution still images.