RE: Determining deer age????
ABSOLUTELY FALSE! A DEERS AGE IS OFTEN DETERMINED BY THE WEARING OF THE TEETH. MOST DEER ARE BORN IN LATE SPRING TO EARLY SUMMER. THUS, WHEN YOU HARVEST A DEER IN THE FALL IT IS ROUGHTLY X.5 YEARS OLD.
EX.
BORN IN MAY 1998 AND SHOT IN FALL 2001 = 3.5
THE NUMBER OF POINTS ON A DEER'S HEAD HAS ABSOLUTEYLY NOTHING TO DO WITH THE NUMBER OF YEARS IT'S BEEN ALIVE.