Cementum aged critters - Let’s see them..

[shrapnel]

6 1/2

 

[PAhunter]

9.5

 

[PAhunter]

7.5

 

[PAhunter]

6

 

[PAhunter]

Lost a little faith in the process on this one (sent to DeerAge, not Matsons). Came back 4.5

But I had history and was confident he was at least 4 (and suspected he was 5), two years before I killed him in 2017.

 

[PAhunter]

Deerage said 7.5 on this one; trail camera history said 8.5, so within the +/- year margin they estimated.

 

[wyoboypt]

Female lion. 9.5 years old.

 

[wyoboypt]

Boar. 8.5 years old.

 

[wyoboypt]

Boar. 3.5.

 

[wyoboypt]

Female. 2.5

 

[ImBillT]

Found some pictures of him from 2021.

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For him to be 4 when I shot him in 2024 he would have needed to be 1.5 here. No way he was 1.5 in 2021 based on these pictures. I have some other pictures of him with some other bucks and I think he was 3.5 in these pictures. I tried finding a picture of him in 2020 but couldn't conclusively identify him from 2020 pictures.

I know they aged him at 4 with a B rating and a range of 4-5. If he was 5 which would be the top of their range it would put him at 2.5 in these pictures. That's closer but I still think it is a year off and he was 3.5 in the above pictures.

He really was a cool buck. Found the full resolution version of him in velvet his last year while I was looking for these older ones.
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I could get on board with 3.5 in the pictures, but even then, he didn’t grow a ton between when you killed him and those pictures, which makes me think you could almost talk me into him being 4.5 in the pictures. He sure isn’t 1.5 in those pics. Or even 2.5.

 

[ImBillT]

I wish I had something worth posting. I know most areas get results that appear, and likely are, accurate, but I sent 5-6 mule deer in with @npaden, and got unreliable results. I didn’t have anything very old, so it would be hard to miss by a lot of years, but the deer that were clearly on the higher end got aged young and the deer that were clearly younger got aged older than the deer that were clearly older.

I don’t want to anyone to think that I’m dogging on the process or the companies doing it. I think the animals that I sent just came from a climate that yielded poor results. I think it probably works for most areas and is a pretty cool process that seems like it’s probably more reliable than tooth wear.