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Re: Tooth aged blacktail from 2019
« Reply #15 on: May 31, 2020, 02:41:53 AM »
Not sure if I totally buy the tooth age accuracy. I killed a black bear that was 6.5ft long and weighed a bunch. WDFW aged it as 1yr old from tooth. This boar was no one year old.
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Re: Tooth aged blacktail from 2019
« Reply #16 on: May 31, 2020, 08:02:41 AM »
Not sure if I totally buy the tooth age accuracy. I killed a black bear that was 6.5ft long and weighed a bunch. WDFW aged it as 1yr old from tooth. This boar was no one year old.

Sounds like he was a lot longer in the tooth than that.🤣

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Re: Tooth aged blacktail from 2019
« Reply #17 on: May 31, 2020, 09:13:42 AM »
How were her teeth ??  You can tell more from their teeth than their size/weight.  Im sure you know that, just curious.

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Re: Tooth aged blacktail from 2019
« Reply #18 on: May 31, 2020, 09:58:01 AM »
Not sure if I totally buy the tooth age accuracy. I killed a black bear that was 6.5ft long and weighed a bunch. WDFW aged it as 1yr old from tooth. This boar was no one year old.

Wdfw didnt age it, they sent it to a lab to be aged.  That being said, cementum aging isnt 100% accurate.  I read where qdma took a number of deer of known ages and sent teeth off.  I believe they used 2 different labs.  They would send terth from the same deer to two different labs and quite often got different results.  Results were pretty commonly a year higher or lower than the deers actual age, and sometimes off by 2 years.  In your case of a large bear being aged at 1 year, its also possible that teeth got mixed up.  A neighbor killed a very large boar that the results called 2 years old.  Not possible.
  Cementum aging gives you a good idea, but its not perfect.  Generally if they say an animal is 5 yrs old for example, its a pretty good bet that its 4- 6.

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Re: Tooth aged blacktail from 2019
« Reply #19 on: June 01, 2020, 10:19:49 AM »
WDFW claim this buck was 2 yr old (2.5) at kill.

Lol ya obviously not 2.5.

 


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