One of those "age this buck" threads...

[WNY Bowhunter]

Just wondering everyone's thoughts on the age of this buck? He has been very active vacuuming up all the fallen acorns near my cell cam. I know his age and will follow up later this afternoon...

[Swamp_bucks]

3.5-4.5

[grampy]

Full front end. Sag belly. Says he is a mature buck. I'll go with five years old.

[Splitear]

I'm going with a 4 year old.

 

[2BuckBizCT]

What unit? I don't think he's 2.5, so he's 3.5+ and let's see let deerage.com handle the rest

[mowin]

Old enough for the frying pan. 

[WNY Bowhunter]

35 minutes ago, 2BuckBizCT said:

What unit? I don't think he's 2.5, so he's 3.5+ and let's see let deerage.com handle the rest

8P, Steuben County

[SilentStalker]

4.5+ - Can't imagine what he will look like when he starts to swell up!

[Otto]

I'll go 4.5 because it's Stueben County, home to NYS's largest bucks. 

[cervidchasers]

6.5 , thats a lot of belly sag

[broomeguy]

5.5??

[mowin]

I'm not very good at this type of stuff, but I'm going with 5.5 

[Wolc123]

4.4

[LET EM GROW]

WNY bucks is 5.4! saggy belly, brick shithouse with a worn off tail from all the sitting around he does.. 

Rusty buck i say is another 5.4, cant hide that sway back.. 

[WNY Bowhunter]

The correct answer is...5.35 years old. He is just a pretty crappy buck in terms of antler genetics.

*Note that he is missing the tip of his tail.

 

2020: 

 

2021:

 

2022:  He grew a funky right side because my dad shot him in the right front leg with a muzzleloader during the late season in December '21.