Old deer on back side of his antler growth.
Got him in to tag station on FTCKY
I checked him out in the woods.
Teeth flat as heck
Biologist aged out teeth put 6.5 + on age.
Their comparison chart / pics only went to 6.5.
Dude said he was probably almost 8.

Still hunting into a fairly moderate wind.
He was hanging around 2 yearling does.
They had no idea I was 40 yds away braced against a tree for about 3 or 4 secs when I 1st seen them. I Just came up out of a fairly deep chest high dry creek bed that I was using for travel to get to this area of hardwoods hopefully unseen as best as possible.

And yes that is a Leupold scope on that Kodiak .45 pro mag
It aint on it anymore after another Leupold took a massive schit on me later this same fall on my mod 70 ot6.
I wont even own a Leupold lens pen.
0 Leupold anything in my house.
Thats how strongly I felt about that total scope experience I had with my Mod 70, also that fiasco cost me the last 2 or 3 weeks of rifle season that year.

Was a lifelong Leupold person
Age 16 or 17 to age 52.
All 4 of my scope deer rifles now have Sightron SII 3-9x42 duplex reticles on them.
Same scope, same sight picture across the board. No difference signal to the brain.
It's a mental/ physical memory thing...
And rugged reliable scopes.


YMMV about Leupold scopes.
All personal preference....

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