cardeer

If it was living in a agricultural area 160 lbs at 21/2 is possible

BarnesX.308

No agriculture. It’s strictly forest (big woods country). There are beech, cherry, maple and hemlock trees up there. There are also striped maples, ferns, black berry and blueberry bushes in the overgrown clear cut areas. There are three kinds of cover up there – hemlock swamps, mountain laurel thickets and overgrown clear cuts. The field that I’m in is just a grass field and there are only two of them. They never get planted with anything except a small patch of ground cover a few years back.

livbucks

1.5 = NO WAY

2.5 = MOST LIKELY

3.5 = SLIGHT POSSIBILITY

What a difference a year can make.

BarnesX.308

Well, at least this way I'll know what he's going to look like next year. Thanks for all the guesses. I'll see what the taxidermist thinks and then take a look at the teeth.

j3k2c1

I am guessing 3.5+. It looks like an old buck by the head structure/size. Can't wait for the tooth report.

CanadianWrangler

If that buck were in my area I would have to say 1.5 yrs old.

Most likely a 2.5'er in my opinion.

kshunter

i'm guessing about 2.5 years old, but possibly a 3.5. It's early in the season and the rut hasn't started. He has a lot of weight on him for a 2.5 year old because the rut hasn't started.

BarnesX.308

His body is saying old but his antlers are saying young. They are pretty wide and high for a 6-point. He could have been a spike, then forky, then this. Some deer just don't have the antler genetics. We have a lot of young deer that are 8-points. 1.5 year olds are 8-point baskets and 2.5 year olds are 110-120" class deer.