Age this Buck

[Nomad]

Strange rack.  He's got some belly on him.  I was thinking 4.5.

[Gobblengrunt]

Im seeing a buck thats over the hill, 6 or 7 years old.  

[JHbowhunter]

i don't know - it's so confusing.. Could be a real fat 2.5 year old, that still has potential, a typical 3.5 or 4.5 year old but with really bad antler genetics but good body. It could be an oldster on way down but really need to see a pic in color because face coloration does play into that evaluation for me, hard to get from an IR pic....

[Batsto]

He looks like a Buck that hangs in our neighborhood. He's been showing up to our neighbor's backyard feeder for the past 6 years. 

[3Blade]

Rack looks like old timer on the way down.  Like said above could also be a 3.5 with bad genetics.

[Nomad]

47 minutes ago, Gobblengrunt said:

Im seeing a buck thats over the hill, 6 or 7 years old.  

I was thinking that also.  

[Nomad]

Well, I will hold off, but my son would take him if he gets a chance.

[JHbowhunter]

5 minutes ago, Nomad said:

Well, I will hold off, but my son would take him if he gets a chance.

Hey Mark if it's an area you been hunting and getting pics for years, and that buck is older than 2.5 right now, you would have noticed that rack over the years and see some familiarity.   If not ringing any bells,  it could have been a spike last year and now at 2.5 - might be a stud in a few years. 

[Nomad]

4 minutes ago, JHbowhunter said:

Hey Mark if it's an area you been hunting and getting pics for years, and that buck is older than 2.5 right now, you would have noticed that rack over the years and see some familiarity.   If not ringing any bells,  it could have been a spike last year and now at 2.5 - might be a stud in a few years. 

Not ringing any bells.  Looks older than 2.5 though.  

[BackwoodsBoy]

3.5 

[tpr1921]

3.5

[Buck154]

I'd go with 5-6 years old. I have a buck with a very similar body frame and he is old.

[JHbowhunter]

sort of reminds me of "tripod" the year I took him at 6.5...  Whacky rack but that was due to rear leg injury... Yours doesn't appear injured and is more symmetrical, and somehow never got the brow tine gene.    I think his parents were breeding too close to the gene pool.  

[Trophy8]

3.5-4.5

[hemlock]

I think it's at least 6.5 yo