RE: Any ideas on the age of this deer?
I had come to the same conclusion myself. Definitely no older than 3.5, probably 2.5.
I took this buck on heavily hunted public land, believe it or not. And my brother killed a 9 point just a little bit smaller from the same tree two weeks earlier. Unbelievable.
I wish I owned some private land with this kind of genetics on it. This deer would have been world class in a few more years.
Gotta love Ohio!