Mule deer age?

Bluecollarbucks · Dec 13, 2021

We forgot to request the age when we sent the teeth in. Just curious if anyone wants to chime in with any additional educated guesses. My taxidermist guessed him 6.5-7.5 ?

Tristate · Dec 13, 2021

That's a pretty good guess by your taxidermist. Could be older if he is on a soft diet.

Bluecollarbucks · Dec 14, 2021

Tristate said:
That's a pretty good guess by your taxidermist. Could be older if he is on a soft diet.

That’s what I think as well. Possibly 8 yrs old or so.

Dioni · Dec 26, 2021

It's so subjective. I've sent in all my teeth for years now and it's really hard to anticipate what numbers will come back. I've seen teeth like that on a few 4 year old deer and last year killed an 8 year old buck that looked like that or better. All you can accurately say is that he was probably older than 4