Originally Posted by
Huntingtherut
How can you guys be so sure of age by looking at a picture? I try and judge them but I cant tell. What do you think the age of these two are? I think the bigger of the two looks younger but like I said, I have a difficult time judging.
It's a guess. Not to offend anyone, but even the "experts" say that aging a live deer, unless you have year-to-year pictures of it, is guess work. As I mentioned in a previous post eslewhere on this site, my 07 and 08 bucks were both aged at 3.5 using the jaw and tooth wear. While the same ages they were very different in antler and body characteristics.