In Tennessee? If you're not shooting then you have one heck of a place. He may well look like a 3.5 year old to some but I'd bet if you pulled his jaw-at least in the part of TN that I hunt, he'd most likely be 4.5yrs old.
I wouldn't shoot him where I hunt in MS and he's a 3.5 yr old class buck there. If he makes two more years he'll be special. A buck living an extra two years where I hunt (the first morning I ever hunted there two bucks were laying by my parking spot, heads gone and still steaming. Discouraging...) what you end up shooting has so much to do with where you hunt and how it's hunted around you.
I want to shoot deer with some age on them but if you're holding out for a 160" in an area that historically has never kicked one out be ready to not pull the trigger very often.
Last edited by davidlea; 12/07/17.
