Age and score....

this one:

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3-1/2 yrs. 174-5/8" :grin:

I'd guess 3-1/2 to 4-1/2 yoa but no older. Score? Anybody's guess.

I'm gonna go with 3.5 years and about 155. When that velvet comes off those tines are kind of skinny and the bases are not giant compared to the diameter of his head. There can be deductions for those little kickers.

Its pretty difficult to judge due to the angle and the fact that its in velvet. A couple more photos might help as might the vicinity. There are a lot of different subspecies.

I wouldn't expect to see that much antler until 4-1/2 years, and yeah, they will look quite a bit less impressive after the velvet is off.

Two things make an accurate estimate close to impossible.

1) Where was the deer photographed? If in Texas or Florida, the body size would be smaller thus making the estimate of antler score larger.

2) The buck is in velvet thus artificially creating a greater estimate of mass for the antlers.

Until the velvet is stripped and the location identified, any guess would be just that.
So here's mine: 162" & 5 1/2 yrs. (He looks like a Texas deer to me.

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Do you mean a fawn with horns? That's what some guys in ME, NH and VT call big horned TX deer. :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

I not even going to guess. I can't get it right with the head in front of me and a tape measure in hand.

Once I scored an antelope using the B&C online system. Turned out I had a new world record.... Until it was officially measured. :redface: :haha:

Age: I don't think he's that old. 3 1/2...maybe 4 1/2. To me he doesn't have the sway-back, pot-bellied look of an old buck, nor does his face look old.

Score: You didn't say gross or net. He's very uneven side to side and will lose a lot on net vs gross. Look at his left antler and double it plus inside spread and there you go for net. With the velvet off, it won't look nearly as bulky. I'm thinking he'll net in the 130's from just that one view. And the view makes a HUGE difference. I've seen pictures of bucks that are barely P&Y that look like Booners if positioned just right.

I believe he is 3 yrs old and would yield 153 lbs of boneless meat :surrender:

you are way off on the boneless meat guess.

Fleener

corn/soy bean fed whitetail? Our white tail (cous deer) would yield 30-40 lbs. Our large mulies about that. I thought eastern whitetails (farm raiders) got purtty big :idunno:

you will get around 30% boneless meat of the on the hoof weight.

Iowa deer can be pigs. My youngest when he shot his frist deer with ml, it was one of the biggest deer I have seen, and it was a doe.

fleener

Looks like a young buck, Perhaps 2 yr old. the mass will shrink with the velvet gone and proper aging, drying of the rack. perhaps after all this 120 or a bit more on the hoof. Looks thin in the face. You would be hard pressed to get 50lbs of edible protein and this is if you do the butchering. I find most hunters have a great deal of difficulty judging a deer live and on the hoof. R.C.

Another view:

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I will stick to the age, the rack score may go up to 140-160.With all the gene pools for raised deer and nutrition feeding programs going on this deer may be a product of such a program.Although I am not suggesting this is the situation, not knowing all the particulars involved with him. He is still a very nice buck. R.C.

Up here we score them by weight. :grin:
Thats a very nice bunch of horns, but all I see is 50 lbs. of meat in the freezer. :v
Wish I had him in my back fields.

Ames said:

Up here we score them by weight. :grin:
Thats a very nice bunch of horns, but all I see is 50 lbs. of meat in the freezer. :v
Wish I had him in my back fields.

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I think he's about to say,

"Hey! Don't shoot me! I'm just a skinny, scrawny little deer that put all of my food into growing this big rack of horns.

Shoot that great big fat spike standing over there behind that bush.
He always gets to the good food before I do and his big fat %$& shows it."

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