Cementum aged critters - Let’s see them..

[Hem]

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Lab aged at 7.5

You gotta admire a whitetail that makes it 7.5 years.

 

[DFS]

You gotta admire a whitetail that makes it 7.5 years.

Yeah quite a story to that one I got to hunt him for several years. Had some awful luck the year before and he got bumped by some other hunters right as I was pulling the trigger.

 

[Carl 9.3x62]

11.5

 

[Carl 9.3x62]

5.5

 

[Big Sky Guy]

2026 (January) Late Season Montana cow. My personal oldest harvest. 11A.

 

[Big Sky Guy]

2015 Montana bull. My first bull, first elk and first day ever hunting elk. 3A.

 

[Letthemgrow]

2026 (January) Late Season Montana cow. 11A.

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Old girl!

Waiting on results from my wife's bull from this year.

 

[Nameless Range]

9.5 year old female bobcat aged by Matsons Lab.

 

[Big Sky Guy]

2017 (NYE) Late Season Montana cow. 9A.

 

[bigsky2]

I wish everyone would get their animal aged by Matsons. Then we wouldn’t have to hear the term “old troll” get thrown around so much in Montana.

 

[Big Sky Guy]

2019 Montana cow. 10A.

 

[Hammsolo]

I’m going to get this ol’ lady yote aged. Maybe she just failed at oral hygiene? She looked great externally and was big and healthy.

 

[antlerradar]

8 1/2 years old whitetail and 4 1/2 year old mule deer.

 

[Big Sky Guy]

Here’s my “coolest” one, though not as neat as Kurt’s bear above. 2017 Montana bull. My biggest. Had some sort of issue with his teeth. Thought he would have been way older. Second pic shows 4 of the incisors with the two stubs being the I1’s, the outer ones being the I2’s and a youngish remnant from another elk for comparison. Third pic you can see “teeth” growing out from underside of jaw. 7B 6-7.

 

[Caseknife]

I’ll start with a couple.
2016 black bear. 12 years old.
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Needed a bit of lower jaw repair sometime in his life

 

[Caseknife]

Looking forward to the results Edit:couple months
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Going to guess maybe 20 or so?

 

[Caseknife]

2024 Goat-6A, 2024 Elk-3A

 

[Caseknife]

2016 Wyoming, 10A

 

[Big Sky Guy]

Doesn't say these have to be personal harvests. On the heals of @Caseknife post above and my 2017 6-7 year old bull above thought this article from May/June 2018 Bugle would be a good spot to share. One of the more difficult things to accept is that some (most?) critters won't get "big." In my feeble mind I still think an 8+ year old bull is always gonna go over 300", or that to get to 400" a bull needs to live 8+ years. Just not the case.

Still have the jaw here at the lab. I rub it each season for good luck as it will probably be the closest to a 400" bull I get .

2016 Steve Felix Archery World record Montana bull. 6A.

 

[KG406]

These are the only lab aged results I have, really need to start sending in more teeth!
Wife's '23 MT Bull 9 CC=A
A buddies '23 MT whitetail I sent a tooth in for 7 CC=A
My '22 MT goat 10, I had to reach out to the biologist for the lab results and he didn't give me the CC