Well I was trying to figure out if this deer is 5.5 or 6.5. Looks like we are all in the same ball park. Can someone say with some certainty the age and why you think so?
I'm leaning 5 1/2 because there's too little wear on the 4th tooth. At 6 1/2, there's only infundubuluman triangle left of the original enamel near the center of the tooth. This deer does not have that. The dentin is still evident in the center of both cusps of this tooth. At least for out deer out west, it was a pretty much instant age characteristic of jawbones. I don't have much experience at aging East Texas or Hill Country deer... don't have a clue if they're different or not. Our biologist that taught us how to estimate the age of deer was a West Texas guy too.
Well I was trying to figure out if this deer is 5.5 or 6.5. Looks like we are all in the same ball park. Can someone say with some certainty the age and why you think so?
Been stated on here a number of times that even the experts are usually at least +/- a year or two aging by tooth wear. Absent an ear tag and known age, I don't think you can ever do any better other than on an 18-month old deer with the 3-cusped 3rd premolar.
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