“The Ghost” 2024 Buck Extended Story

[Mtnwalker]

Deer aging continues to fascinate me.  The more we lab age teeth the more we realize how full of crap we all are at our guesses

Yet many will tell you with absolute certainty

[Karl Blanchard]

Deer aging continues to fascinate me.  The more we lab age teeth the more we realize how full of crap we all are at our guesses

Yet many will tell you with absolute certainty

to be clear, not throwing shade at anyone.  I'm as guilty as anyone. Especially after this last round of teeth. You'd have to put a gun to my head to make me guess a deers age 

[huntnnw]

You can age a deer to 4.5 .. from that age forward it’s impossible to age a buck unless you have years of history with the buck

[Karl Blanchard]

You can age a deer to 4.5 .. from that age forward it’s impossible to age a buck unless you have years of history with the buck

agreed for the most part but theres always anomalies too.  Travis Hobbs 226" buck that was 3.5 comes to mind.  I've got a CO buck that went 183" that was only 3.5 as well. There's some freaks out there for sure

[bigmacc]

Yep, my dad killed one in 1967, we “guessed” him at around 7-8, after a truck load of bios and Game fellas basically did an autopsy on him, 13 1/2.

They said it was his last migration, either way.👍


To the OP, great story and pictures.👍👍