You HAD to know I was smarter than this. See......one of these deer is on my wall....and the other will be...as soon as my taxi's done with him.

They were both jawbone aged.

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Nothing to do with being smart, just inexerienced. There's nothing personal here at all, I'm just pointing out how you keep portraying youself as some kind of expert. No one here on this thread posted an absolute except you. Then we get to listen to you whine about it. I take that back..... I said you were just a beginner....... that's an absolute.

If you were real smart and a real expert, you'd know that jawbone aging is to be taken with a grain of salt. Just inexperience showing...... again. In other words........ I don't buy it.

I've saved the jaw bones from 17 mature bucks that I have killed. I use them as only part of the aging process. Sometimes they don't tell you squat except that the deer is older than 1 1/2. I sent a whole box of them along with pictures and measurements (weight and antler score)with my local DNR biologist who took them to a meeting with his peers. They sat around and aged them then gave them back to me! LOL!! All I can say is, if you can't trust your local biologist, who can you trust??!! [:-] I'll try to post some pics of the deer and their percieved age when I get home from work tonight. Ever heard of a 190 lb field dressed, 140 gross 1 1/2 in the wild??

The most accurate method of aging involves taking a cross section of the tooth and counting the rings. I haven't gone that far yet.