RE: age of this buck?
 

he looks to be 2maybe 2 1/2 years old

RE: age of this buck?
 

But how do you know that they are 1.5 year olds that are being taken?

RE: age of this buck?
 

Educated guess with an actual deer down on the ground, where body size, rack size and the teeth can be examined using 32 years of hunting experience. Even then it's still a guess, although it is much more certain than by looking at a picture. It really is the only way I've found to have any level of certainty, since pictures are pretty much worthless, thus my original guess of 1.5 or 2.5 years old. That's my two cents on it.

RE: age of this buck?
 

Big bodied 2.5

RE: age of this buck?
 

Ok i was seeing if you were pulling jaws or not. We pull the jaws on all of our deer now so we know exactlu how old the deer are we are harversting.

RE: age of this buck?
 

Cool. So based on the picture alone you made an educated guess too.;)