RE: Aging deer (2.5 yr old)....."Location"
 

They vary in antler size quite a bit, but these are what I believe to be 2.5 yr olds for my area

RE: Aging deer (2.5 yr old)....."Location"
 

Aaron....

Buddy "I" think you have an older deer than 2.5 yrs, there.;)

RE: Aging deer (2.5 yr old)....."Location"
 

which ones? all of them?i really have no idea, the first pic of the 9 i made a post about and everyone said 2.5... but maybe thats what a 2.5 looks like where they are from....?

So what about the buck i have in your 3.5 thread?

RE: Aging deer (2.5 yr old)....."Location"
 

This one looks older than 2.5 to me.

RE: Aging deer (2.5 yr old)....."Location"
 

Fellas - how old do you think these deer are? (I added the date of the photos, so you have a baseline to reference with regard to bodyweight/size)

Don't be afraid to take some guesses. I have no idea as to their actual age, sono worries about being wrong...

#1. Late November



#2. Halloween



#3 Early-Mid november



#4. (shot on opening day of archery season)



Just as a baseline: Here's a DEFINITE 1.5 year old, taken in Mid/Late October in the same general area as all of these other deer

RE: Aging deer (2.5 yr old)....."Location"
 

These are some typical 2.5 year olds here, mass and tines are starting to grow a little more than the 1.5 year olds but they still aren't up to what the 3.5's are.

RE: Aging deer (2.5 yr old)....."Location"
 

1.5



2.5 (Very good one)



2.5, but hard to tell from the pic



2.5 or a 3.5 with smaller genetics



1.5





What is the point of this thread? I don't mean that as a criticism, but just curious what we are learning from this.

Here is a a picture of a good 2.5 lying next to a good 3.5 in my area:

RE: Aging deer (2.5 yr old)....."Location"
 

I suppose we're learning what a 1.5, 2.5 and 3.5 yr old deer looks like in differing areas of the country. I thin's it's pretty common knowledge a 1.5 in KS might not look like a 1.5 yr old in FL. But we see a lot of posts where we're asked to "age this deer". I just thought "location" played a big part (a lot of the time) on our ability to do this intelligently.

That's it.

RE: Aging deer (2.5 yr old)....."Location"
 

I passed on this one several times this year but haven't gotten a picture of him in over 2 months. I think someone else didn't pass on him.



I shot this one when he came in right before dark and thought he was 3 1/2 at the time. Looking at his jawbone I think he was only 2 1/2 with GREAT potential.



Thankfully I got a picture of what appears to be his twin brother about a month ago.




As mentioned in the 1.5 year old thread, we had a really wet year with lots of browse available this year and I think that had something to do with the good racks on the younger bucks.

RE: Aging deer (2.5 yr old)....."Location"
 

Got it. My main reason for asking is that we are seeing a lot of trail cam pics of live deer saying definitively that this is a x.x year old deer. In my experience until you have a deer on the ground and can look at histeeth, weight, and body size up close it us impossible to know for sure the age of a livedeer unless you have watched it from a 1.5 year old on.

So, I'massuming most of these are educated guesses at age (which is why I only posted dead deer, I know for sure on them).