Cementum aged critters - Let’s see them..

[Frequently Banned Troll]

2004. No age listed but notes said , “BR NA at least 13”

 

[Frequently Banned Troll]

2012 - 13 years old

 

[Forkyfinder]

Amazing the seeming lack of correlation between age and antler size. Lots of big young ones.

 

[npaden]

I have a few to add, just need to get my pictures together. I have a couple that I think the lab got wrong, but they are Texas deer and they labeled them a "B" for reliability and gave ranges but I think they still missed them by a bit.

I think they got this one correct, it is a Colorado bull that I have 3 years of trail pictures.

Killed in 2023 and aged as 8 years old with an "A" reliability rating.

Backing up to 2021 he would have been 6 years old in this picture:

And 7 years old in this picture from 2022:


Here he is in 2023 aged at 8 by the lab:

Jawbone:

Jawbone matched up perfectly with the age from the lab.

It is interesting to me that between ages 6 and 8 I'm not sure that he grew any at all, maybe even was a little down the year he was 8. Could have been that conditions were perfect for antler growth in 2021 and that let him grow to full potential that year and then conditions were not as good in 2022 or 2023. Not sure if that was accurate or not, just speculation on my part for why he didn't continue to add antler each year.

 

[Hammsolo]

There’s an old coaches saying, “You can’t win the Kentucky Derby on a jackass.”

 

[Frequently Banned Troll]

Lion is 3B 3-4 surprised as it was a 141# tom with 14-1/4” skull.

Wolf is 5 & I would have thought younger. Female.

 

[Frequently Banned Troll]

6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, then 12 in that order.

Youngest 3 have biggest skulls at 19-6/16, 20-11/16, and 19-15/16 all official measurements.

 

[Big Sky Guy]

6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, then 12 in that order.
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Damn, Kurt. You’re like the Pokémon master of bears. Almost got one of every age! Just missing those young 2, 3, 4 and 5 year olds . Truly impressive. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Corn king 60]

I had just the one year prior sheds.

 

[El Jason]

4.5