(IMO) I have a hard time believing someone can tell a bucks exact age EVERY TIME! just buy looking at him?.Although i do agree a young 1.5 bucks for the most part is fairly easy to judge. But If you take a 2.5 yr old buck with poor or hardly any nutrition at all and bad genetics. Then look at a 1.5 yr old with good nutrion and good genetics a lot of time they can have simuler same size racks and very close to the same size body wait. Then judging this animal can be sometimes almost impossible simply buy looking at him?