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Oh, hell no. That's fake.
Isn't there a photo of that deer laying down with you behind it - snowy maybe?

vast majority of hunters can't tell the difference between a 3 yr old and a 6 yr old.

Here's another old, old buck I helped a friend kill several days ago. He's at least 6.5, more likely 7.5

Could somebody explain to me, why guys feel the need to add a '.5' to the year of a deer? How do you know that it wasn't born a .3, .4, .6 or a .7? Are your kids aged as 11 and a half year olds? Do they get half-year birthday parties, too? I don't know anybody but deer hunters that do this stuff. Farmers, ranchers and any other normal folk, say their animals/kids are yearlings, two/three/four year olds without having to embellish an extra half year. But rock on, if it makes you feel superior......

Ahhh, that one. Manitoba.
He didn't quite make 300#. Were he not one of the shortest (lengthwise) bucks I've ever seen, he'd have easily dressed north of 300#.

Could somebody explain to me, why guys feel the need to add a '.5' to the year of a deer? How do you know that it wasn't born a .3, .4, .6 or a .7? Are your kids aged as 11 and a half year olds? Do they get half-year birthday parties, too? I don't know anybody but deer hunters that do this stuff. Farmers, ranchers and any other normal folk, say their animals/kids are yearlings, two/three/four year olds without having to embellish an extra half year. But rock on, if it makes you feel superior......

This reminds me of some of the yahoos in my neck of the woods that "practice deer management".
......."We only shoot eight points or better"

Likely half of the 1.5 y/o bucks around here are 8 pts (might different in your locale). So, pass on the seemingly genetically inferior spikes and forks to shoot the better potential 1.5 y/o's.

I get the spirit of the restriction, I just see a lot of holes in it. And JDK's son's buck is another example - a hefty, mature buck that would have lived an entire life as a 6pt.

Ahhh, that one. Manitoba.
He didn't quite make 300#. Were he not one of the shortest (lengthwise) bucks I've ever seen, he'd have easily dressed north of 300#.

Ahhh, that one. Manitoba.
He didn't quite make 300#. Were he not one of the shortest (lengthwise) bucks I've ever seen, he'd have easily dressed north of 300#.

How does a black tail taste compared to a whitetail?

Ohio this year. Waiting on tooth age confirmation but we aged at 5 from our history with him

Ahhh, that one. Manitoba.
He didn't quite make 300#. Were he not one of the shortest (lengthwise) bucks I've ever seen, he'd have easily dressed north of 300#.

Ahhh, that one. Manitoba.
He didn't quite make 300#. Were he not one of the shortest (lengthwise) bucks I've ever seen, he'd have easily dressed north of 300#.