infoman jr.
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Can someone who can read these things give me an idea on age?
Bummer. He'll be a dandy this fall.Agreed, 3.5.
Agree... sortof...Probably a 3 yr old jawbone. For discussion purposes, I feel that jawbone age is an educated guess but not exact, at least not for the untrained eye. I feel that this falls under the 'it depends' category with regards to tooth wear. It depends on soil makeup (ex: sandy/loamy/clay) and what types of food the deer has available in its range. It's second hand information but this idea around jawbone exam came from the professor who was at MS State prior to Dr. Strickland and Demarais. Cant recall his name right now but it was around the absolute of a deer's age strictly based off wear of the tooth. Hopefully someone else can expound on this in greater detail, or maybe they wont, but that's my $0.02.