So I started gathering a collection of teeth to send out to have aged. I had two sets from 2016, and one set from 2017 that I sent out in December. I recently got the results and was slightly surprised at them. In light of a recent thread on old bucks, I figured I would post up the bucks and have some fun hearing your guesses and hopefully we can all get something educational out of it. I will admit that I did have some history with all of these bucks so MY guesses were based more on that then many other factors. In the end I was wrong on every one of them but only by a year for each. These are all bucks killed in the NW corner of CT in farm/hill areas.
So in order of my kills I will start with my 11/13/16 archery buck. This buck was killed an hour after sunrise on the downwind edge of a bedding area where there were half dozen of fresh scrapes. He came in downwind and made another scrape ten yards in front of me then offered up a five yard shot. I hit him hard quartering to and took out the top of the heart, he ran about 80 yards. He dressed out at 194 pounds and gross scored in the low 130s. I'll include a trail cam pic of him from late summer, it was the best pic I could find that gives a good view of his body structure.
