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What would this buck score?

What a great 5+year old buck … I would shoot that deer anywhere I hunt.
Congratulations to your boy.
 
Tell your son congrats from me for a really great buck. I think we are finding out here that it's a lot harder to judge a buck from a game camera pic than we all thought. Can you see if you can get an age on him after you throw a tape on him?
 
Nutterbuster said:
Sure....sure...

I know a guy who duct-tapes a broom handle between the main beams. Aint squat shrinking!
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A taxidermist friend of mine once told me if you put a rack in the freezer for that 60 days that there wouldn't be any shrinkage. Don't know how much truth there is to that though.
 
DroptineKrazy said:
A taxidermist friend of mine once told me if you put a rack in the freezer for that 60 days that there wouldn't be any shrinkage. Don't know how much truth there is to that though.
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Me neither. Isn't shrinkage caused by the cartilage between skull plates drying. Which makes the skull contract and potentially narrow the width? I don't think the actual antlers lose any length/girth.
 
I am trying to read up and learn how to score correctly, will give it a shot in a couple days and see what I come up with. I will probably have him professionally scored at the taxidermist. How do you get the age on one? I know you have to send their jaw bones or something somewhere but never done it.
 
Seekbigger said:
I am trying to read up and learn how to score correctly, will give it a shot in a couple days and see what I come up with. I will probably have him professionally scored at the taxidermist. How do you get the age on one? I know you have to send their jaw bones or something somewhere but never done it.
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Here's an easy way to score one. It's pretty self explanatory: https://www.boone-crockett.org/scorechart/add/whitetail_deer

The NDA did a two part video on aging deer by their teeth. There are so many variables it can be tough to be accurate though.

There are a couple different labs to send the teeth for cementum aging. I've never done it but, here's one: https://deerage.com/services-and-pricing/
 
Seekbigger said:
I am trying to read up and learn how to score correctly, will give it a shot in a couple days and see what I come up with. I will probably have him professionally scored at the taxidermist. How do you get the age on one? I know you have to send their jaw bones or something somewhere but never done it.
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Seekbigger said:
When he comes back from the packing house I will get the accurate measurements and enter them in and get back to everyone. I’m still thinking 115 to 120, but still a really nice buck for my son in my opinion.
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Agreed. I'm sticking by my guesstimate from the trail cam pics...mid to upper teens, but more likely upper teens.. Too bad is brow tines aren't in step with his G2s.
Nice buck regardless.
deerage.com is a good place to send teeth to a lab. The lab can age from molars but the better teeth to send are the 2 center incisors.
Aging from tooth replacement wouldn't apply to deer over 2.5
Tooth wear will basically put the deer in an "age class", but generally isn't as accurate as lab aging.
 
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