Ok gang.........after getting my commitment from the landowner to allow me and my best friend to be the only hunters on one of his properties, I fessed up to him about a deer that I videoed after shooting my buck (i only told him as I wanted to see if he had heard the neighbors talking about it). I have shown the video to several individuals that have a ton of experience at aging deer. We have decided the buck is 3.5 or 4.5. He has the longest brow tines I have ever seen on a buck and my friends that looked at the video agree that this buck had an awesome set of brow tines. When asking my landowner if anyone had shot this deer he stated that deer needs to go as brow tines are an indicator of age and as long as they were, he was a mature buck. I disagree but was wondering if there is any validity or research either way. Thanks for your input.
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He's absolutely wrong. -
And I never use the word "absolutely".Comment
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that's BSComment
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absolutely NOT!!!!
Thats funny!Comment
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Tine length on mature deer, brow or otherwise, is more genetics than age. The mass of the tines may be age as well as genetics.Comment
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Which of these is older?
Brow tine length indicates age as well as number of tines, which is none at all.Comment
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i will see if i can find it but i have a pic of a buck(3 1/2) with at least 9" brows from this past season. On the other hand i killed a slick 8 some years back that scored 124 gross that was 7 1/2 years old with a 9" & 8" brow.Comment
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The top buck is no more than 2 1/2. We call him G1 because of his super brows. The second buck is old. At least 7 1/2. Virtually no brows. According to your landowner, buck one would be the old deer and the old deer would be a yearling.Comment
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I know this is just one buck but here's his story about brow tines
I had a buck on the ranch that grew 8-9" G-1's when he was a 2 yrs old (I was shocked!!). for the next 5 years his G-1's were always in the 7-9" long range.
He was shot when he was 7.5yrs old and they were both 7 1/2" long scoring 176"Comment
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Brow tine length has nothing to do with age of a deer, it is genetics and nutrition, leaning more to genetics IMHO. Some huge high scoring deer might have 6" total of eye guards. This buck is definately mature but his G1's are lacking. I doubt he will every have much more than what he was showing last year but I will put an arrow in him if given the chance.
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nope.Comment
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Tuthdoc you sure that first buck is only 2 1/2? His hide looks like he got run over on I 20 or something.Comment
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Look at the date the pic was taken....they are probably losing some of their hair....Originally posted by quarterback View PostComment
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That is rediculous. Does it look like this 200 pounder is young?
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