ORIGINAL: DropTine249
Yea Bry- I believe him to be 2.5yo. If he makes it to 4.5yo, he should be one heck of a buck.
I read that a buck at 2.5yo is only at 33% of his antler potential. At 3.5yo, he is at 64% of that potential and at 4.5yo he is at 88%....
If he's around next season, we'll see what he looks like. A lot of the areas that I now hunt were over hunted and many guys blasted every decent 2yo they saw, needless to say, we're in a "rebuilding" phase, right now with these herds.
I don't know where you got those stats but as far as I have seen they would be spot on. I killed my 2.5yr old this yr. I only shot b/c it was my biggest with a bow and he kept coming in. 3x's I had him come in under 20yds away. 2/3 I could have nailed him. Now to the point of the story. My buddy killed one on the same property and was age guesstimated at 4.5yrs. Same rack but bigger...... HE went 152 gross. as a 4x4 with a split g2 on the right side.
Here's my buck
