His is 3.5 and needs to go at this point with no brow tines. I hunt in Mason this is pretty common out there we just harvested a 5.5 yr 20" inside 4 point like him opening weekend.
Now don't get to hasty and go shooting that "Buck" yet, it might be an "Antlered Doe". Look closely at the picture....see the way the eyes are made up?
His body looks big compared to his head and antlers in that picture. I would say he is 2.5 yrs old judging from that picture. I would shoot him as a cull if I were managing the property.
Definitely no photoshop. This is my first year on this lease and I am still trying to figure out what I am looking at. This is the 5th year of protein feeding and even the yearlings have a belly on them. The rules are 4-1/2 or older, a cull, and two doe. We saw a 11 point on youth weekend that was not much bigger in body than this 4 point. We let him walk because I aged him at 3-1/2 and he needs to spread his genes around. The only reason this 4 point is walking is because I have already decided to let my son kill both bucks this year.
For the mason county he's a hause, probably 4.5 i've seen one almost just like this once and he was a pigfor the mason area. Definately need to down him !
that deer is at least 24.5 years old, and looks to have been the breeding result of a white tail doe, and and male angus bull....I'd whack his ***. LOL
Admittedly, its different country but I could show you plenty at my lease. Also remember, photos can be deceiving and aging / scoring deer from a single picture is a very inexact science (regardless of how expert we all think we are). I also think people lose sight of the fact that deer are not all born in a one month period during the spring. We still had a few hot does during the third weekend of March last year. Some does are impregnated early and some later. I would think a three or four month difference in age, when deer are young, has to play some part in their size and initial antler growth.
Please don't take this as me considering myself to be any kind of expert. This my tenth year in South Texas and I still get humbled fairly regularly in reference to aging and scoring deer. Some of the best hunters I know do too. No doubt, the deer in this picture could be a 2 year old. But I'm just guessing like everyone else.
w/o even having a trace of brow tines, he's gotta go, I would expect a 1.5 year old to look like that, and even if he was 1.5, he'd go at most places.
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