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Post by scrub-buster on Dec 4, 2017 20:57:25 GMT -5
Normally I don't post pictures of other people and there deer without permission but since this is a high fence kill and something about it seems fishy I don't feel about about posting it. The story about it getting stolen doesn't add up. Who would leave a rack like that in the bed of a truck unatended?
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Post by arlowe13 on Dec 5, 2017 5:44:37 GMT -5
I got to meet Brody and his dad last weekend. Got to hold the antlers. Nothing short of impressive. Green score gross 205"+. The buck was well known in the area with no less than 10 guys after him. Crazy part is that they aged the deer at only 3.5 years old! AND...he has a brother walking around still....
North American Whitetail was going to interview Brody this week.
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Post by boonechaser on Dec 5, 2017 10:53:38 GMT -5
I heard the 3.5 age thing also but have a friend that has trail cam pic's of him last year and he was upper 150's low 160's then. That said at 2.5 yrs old I doubt very much a wild deer would score that high. Until confirmed by a biologist I'm very doubtful the deer was 3.5.
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Post by firstwd on Dec 5, 2017 12:08:34 GMT -5
My brother has a 2.5yo 8 point on the wall that is just shy of 130 from the late 90's. With the major prevalence of supplemental minerals in that area these days, there every bit a possibility that deer is only 3.5yo.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2017 12:11:49 GMT -5
I have a 10 pointer that was confirmed by CO back in 1987, it's was 1.5 yrs old. Next time downstairs, I will take a picture. Hard to believe.
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Post by greghopper on Dec 5, 2017 12:13:49 GMT -5
I heard the 3.5 age thing also but have a friend that has trail cam pic's of him last year and he was upper 150's low 160's then. That said at 2.5 yrs old I doubt very much a wild deer would score that high. Until confirmed by a biologist I'm very doubtful the deer was 3.5. They will need to send the front tooth off to get a very accurate age.... tooth wear is usually close most of the time but can also be inaccurate also.
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Post by boonechaser on Dec 5, 2017 14:04:48 GMT -5
I'm just a skeptic as another local says he has trail cam pic's of deer for last 4 year's. A gross 200" plus deer in our county , which is not known for great soil fertility either just seems unrealistic. But I agree with Greg if age is wanted to be known it needs to be aged by someone with proper training. Otherwise it is just hearsay IMO.
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Post by freedomhunter on Dec 5, 2017 15:10:41 GMT -5
you can tell by the head and body that buck is a mature 5 or 6 or old. Not rocket science.
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Post by Pinoc on Dec 5, 2017 16:35:45 GMT -5
Tooth aging is a guess anyways. How many of you guys have had the biologist team on a special hunt age your deer and buddy’s deer and say they were the same age when clearly you could tell by the body size it wasn’t right? Be honest now.
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Post by (Not Ronald) Reagan on Dec 6, 2017 9:33:17 GMT -5
A lot of the 140 inch deer in our area are only 2.5 years old, so the odds of that being true aren't that crazy...
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Post by greghopper on Dec 6, 2017 9:36:08 GMT -5
A lot of the 140 inch deer in our area are only 2.5 years old, so the odds of that being true aren't that crazy... Got source for that information or is that "tailgate" talk ? 🤔
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2017 9:50:38 GMT -5
Here is the 1.5 yr old confirmed by CO back in 1987 and stated a state record for a 1.5 yr old. If fact, the CO know where I shot this buck. He was right on. I mean within a few hundred yards. This was my 2nd buck and it's icing on the cake for forever deer hunting. It was 3 degrees when I went out and got the buck around 10 am . It was around 8 degrees at 10 am. I was the only one that went out that morning out of 12 hunters. After the shot I was red hot the rest of the day! This is still my favorite day ever hunting. I saw the buck around 8 am in my binoculars as he slowly walked down the hill across the creek.
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Post by swilk on Dec 6, 2017 10:01:20 GMT -5
The taxi I use said he goes by thickness of the skull rather than tooth wear for his way of aging. I would guess if you see enough of them you learn what to look for.
I can get close with body characteristics but after 4.5 years old it largely becomes a guessing game. Educated guessing but guessing non-the-less.
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Post by jjas on Dec 6, 2017 10:26:27 GMT -5
Normally I don't post pictures of other people and there deer without permission but since this is a high fence kill and something about it seems fishy I don't feel about about posting it. The story about it getting stolen doesn't add up. Who would leave a rack like that in the bed of a truck unatended? So is that for sure a high fence deer? And if so, I wonder how much that deer cost to "harvest"?
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Post by boonechaser on Dec 6, 2017 10:37:52 GMT -5
100% high fence is what I saw. Extreme Whitetails or something like that. Saw it on facebook where they posted a comment as someone other than hunter had made a post about it.
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Post by boonechaser on Dec 6, 2017 10:38:41 GMT -5
Also the deer was supposedly stolen out of back of pickup while hunter was in a restaurant eating..
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Post by jjas on Dec 6, 2017 10:51:01 GMT -5
Also the deer was supposedly stolen out of back of pickup while hunter was in a restaurant eating.. If that's a high fence deer (which it does look like), I bet he's really p*ssed when you consider it was not only stolen, but it likely cost him a fortune to kill to boot...
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Post by (Not Ronald) Reagan on Dec 6, 2017 12:34:51 GMT -5
A lot of the 140 inch deer in our area are only 2.5 years old, so the odds of that being true aren't that crazy... Got source for that information or is that "tailgate" talk ? 🤔 Myself along with a lot of friends have had it confirmed by local COs.
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Post by boonechaser on Dec 6, 2017 13:36:01 GMT -5
Hard to believe when I talk to deer breeders that can only produce bucks to 115-125 as 1.5 year olds and that's under controlled genitic's and feeding programs. Certainly deer breeder's can obtain 140-170" class bucks at 2.5 years of age but again that's under controlled environment's but for a wild deer to grow to that size would be extremely rare and certainly not common. Most common way to age is tooth wear but even that is not a exact science and is not always reliable
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Post by boonechaser on Dec 6, 2017 13:37:37 GMT -5
Again in our county (Switzerland) soils are below average to average at best in soil fertility, which soil fertility has a lot to do with antler size.
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