Oldest I've ever heard of...

[TnTurk]

I don't know exactly how far up the age chart you can actually go but if true, this old girl has seen a lot.

 

[readonly]

wonder is she was still dropping fawns.

 

[Savage]

Wow!

 

[EastTNHunter]

She looks old

 

[Ski]

I've got a doe on my place that's been around at least 8 or 10yrs and I thought she was ancient. But 20yrs??? Wow

 

[DeerMan66]

She does look old. Must have had false teeth if she was that old. LOL.

 

[redblood]

Deerage.com is a great group to work with. I encourage hunters to utilize them.

 

[Huntaholic]

A very dear friend of mine who passed on last year killed a doe on Dale Hollow several years ago. She had a metal tag in her ear so he tracked down the info. Turns out she was one of the original deer released up there and if memory serves me correctly, she was 22 years old when he killed her. I didnt see her but he said she looked just like any other adult deer, not feeble, crippled, blind, etc....

 

[Gravey]

Wow!

 

[ROVERBOY]

wonder is she was still dropping fawns.

I wonder about that too. I sort of doubt it

 

[WTNBowHunter]

glad they sent off the teeth for aging or i wouldn't have believed it. 20 years is wild! didn't know they lived to be that old.

anyone know what the average age is when deer die of "old age" in TN for both bucks and does?

 

[Hillbilly Hunter]

It would be hard pressed for a buck to live past 8.5 in Tennessee I would bet.

 

[redblood]

Catman killed a late season doe at a wma and sent a tooth off for cementum aging and she came back at 14 i believe. Does can live a long time

 

[redblood]

It would be hard pressed for a buck to live past 8.5 in Tennessee I would bet.

Id say you are correct

 

[GumbyGuy]

bet she didn't drink, smoke or run around with other does that did!

 

[ZachMarkus]

It would be hard pressed for a buck to live past 8.5 in Tennessee I would bet.

3.5 in areas I hunt lol

 

[Bgoodman30]

Toxey was talking about on the gamekeeper podcast that his family friend captured a fawn and she lived 26 years in their yard.

 

[thirdwilliam]

very interesting

 

[Hillbilly Hunter]

3.5 in areas I hunt lol

I should clarify that i meant excluding hunter kills.

 

[Harold Money jr]

This poached elk lived 10 months a year on high end cattle farms in East Tennessee. It and its two bull elk companions were seen daily by those folks living in the neighborhood. The folks living there claim they were 20+ years old. I doubted them but, I'm slowly coming around to that possibility.