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Post by Woody Williams on Nov 30, 2007 20:55:22 GMT -5
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Post by indianahick on Nov 30, 2007 23:27:23 GMT -5
Wow. I'll bet that one is as tough as shoe leather.
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Post by bsutravis on Dec 1, 2007 4:34:44 GMT -5
Wonder if that's accurate and not a misprint. I've never heard of a deer aging that long. If it's accurate, she lived a long life for a deer!
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Post by Woody Williams on Dec 1, 2007 5:24:34 GMT -5
Wonder if that's accurate and not a misprint. I've never heard of a deer aging that long. If it's accurate, she lived a long life for a deer! I'll bet she messed up a lot of hunts for hunters in that time span.. |
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Post by dbd870 on Dec 1, 2007 6:42:56 GMT -5
No kidding, I wonder if round balls bounced off of her?
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Post by duff on Dec 1, 2007 7:34:22 GMT -5
That's going to screw up those who worry about killing a "mature" deer. Based on her age, 4.5 yr old is still a young pup...
Wow, that is an old deer! I've read of banded ducks and geese being 19-20+ age. That seems incredible too.
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Post by Sasquatch on Dec 1, 2007 9:08:25 GMT -5
Captive deer can live past twenty years. I suppose a incredibly wily deer with good genes could approach that in the wild. Think of how slick that old bird must have been, prowling the woods for nearly twenty years, avoiding hunters, cars, and other predators! What a trophy.
Outstanding.
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Post by Hoosier Hunter on Dec 1, 2007 12:30:03 GMT -5
Yeah that the article I was talking about on other post. That's OLD!
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Post by hunterjosh8 on Dec 1, 2007 21:03:33 GMT -5
I didnt know deer could live that long
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Post by whiteoak on Dec 2, 2007 19:28:53 GMT -5
I read once a Fred Bear quote with him saying the hardest animal to kill is an old doe thats raised several young. She can make a 5 year old buck look and act like he has no sense at all.
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Post by dbd870 on Dec 3, 2007 7:57:59 GMT -5
I don't doubt it - those big old momma's will get you.
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Post by mudstrider on Dec 3, 2007 14:16:54 GMT -5
I have a hard time believing this unless their lab has some other way of aging deer besides their teeth.
Once I killed an old doe at Jasper-Pulaski and the CO checking her in had to get out his teeth chart because he hadn't seen very many teeth that old - they were really worn down. His charts only went to 7.5 years old, and my deer's teeth were a little more worn than that. He had no way of aging her accurately so he just wrote down that she was 7.5+ years old. I suspect she was 8 or 9. By 10 or so, she wouldn't have had any teeth left. 17.5 seems too far-fetched for a wild deer and is probably a typo.
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Post by DEERTRACKS on Dec 3, 2007 14:21:57 GMT -5
17.5 seems a bit too old. Curious to see how this plays out.
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Post by Sasquatch on Dec 3, 2007 17:22:33 GMT -5
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Post by splash on Dec 4, 2007 0:23:14 GMT -5
It's possible but not likely...in that area of MI the DNR has alloted A LOT of antlerless tags in an effort to ereadicate the TB...
I see alot of deer in Missaukee Co...south west of that area, and believe me there are some old does...
The antlerless hunting in MI is much more limited than here, it is all by draw and allotment. you cannot by over the counter in the same way as you can here.
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Post by hornharvester on Dec 4, 2007 5:49:20 GMT -5
17.5 seems too far-fetched for a wild deer and is probably a typo. I agree. h.h. |
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