Help me age teeth

[jdavidson]

Best guess ?
The sides don’t match lol

[rtp]

Do you have a side view? The one really “worn” tooth was just damaged at some point. Ignore it in trying to determine age by tooth wear. From what I can see it does not show to be a mature deer. All that said, tooth wear is very inaccurate for aging deer.


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[glen]

Only way to come close is with deer jaws from the same area with known ages. It’s just a form of guessing - but from the photos you put up it appears to have lots of peek to the teeth so not extremely worn and probably younger deer

[Capt.Brown]

Hard to tell in those pics, but as others have said tooth aging isn’t accurate. We have killed several known 8-10 yr old deer and the teeth show 5.

[jdavidson]

Appreciate the help guys.
I couldn’t make sense of the extreme wear on that one tooth…but damaged seems like a reasonable explanation

[Big pig]

I know it is only a tool, but it’s interesting to guess

I say 3.5 and I am only placing that on lack of noticeable wear.

Can we see some live and dead photos of the deer.

BP

[AntlerCollector]

Looks like a 3 1/2 year old that had a cavity

[Chance Love]

It's VERY common for sides not to match. On yours, I'd agree with others that something happened to that one particular tooth though. At a quick glance, by the book those teeth probably show 4. But it's just a guess as to how old the deer actually was. Aging deer by teeth is a waste of time.

[Gumbo Man]

It's VERY common for sides not to match. On yours, I'd agree with others that something happened to that one particular tooth though. At a quick glance, by the book those teeth probably show 4. But it's just a guess as to how old the deer actually was. Aging deer by teeth is a waste of time.

I do agree that tooth aging is a guessing game at best if not a total waste of time. My question is with all the facts that have been revealed concerning this matter, why do the MLD Biologists still require jawbone extraction ? Is it solely to insure that a lot of 1 1/2 year old deer are not being killed? Our jawbones go to the lease manager which in turn is turned over to biologist by him so I have never had an opportunity to ask the Bio myself.

[sako]

By the teeth I would say 4.

[Sippy]

I do agree that tooth aging is a guessing game at best if not a total waste of time. My question is with all the facts that have been revealed concerning this matter, why do the MLD Biologists still require jawbone extraction ? Is it solely to insure that a lot of 1 1/2 year old deer are not being killed? Our jawbones go to the lease manager which in turn is turned over to biologist by him so I have never had an opportunity to ask the Bio myself.

Easiest way for a biologist who doesn’t have the time to look at other indicators to get a ballpark idea.