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  1. 10-04-2025, 08:33 PM #1
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    Age that stag

    This stag came in last night for skull cleaning. It's been living on private and the hunter had put a bullet through its neck 2 years ago but didn't knock it over, to double make sure it was the same stag he found a knotted narly scar where the bullet had passed through.

    Thoughts on its age, teeth worn down well, gap on both sides of lower jaw, missing front teeth and the eye teeth had both completely worn away to nothing.

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  3. 10-04-2025, 09:26 PM #2
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    It must of had bad breath,yuk.Hmm 12 to 14yrs old.
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    Pretty cool that the hunter got a second chance

    My guess is 10 years old

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    75, because that's what my teeth look like
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    3 year old that's been living on a diet of soda and lollies.

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    10 plus my quess sausages need lots of beef fat with it
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    Quote Originally Posted by SmokeyJason View Post
    75, because that's what my teeth look like
    You may be 75, but aren't you 25 at heart?
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    He'd be ancient! Have to be 12yrs or more. Are his antlers showing signs of regression?
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    old as dump the bugger go back week later and shoot fat piggy on the carcasse works for me
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hook_Grass View Post
    He'd be ancient! Have to be 12yrs or more. Are his antlers showing signs of regression?
    Yes I'll get a photo of the antlers once it comes out of bleach. Basically a huge 6 pointer with nodules things on the tops where the royals should be. Been a 6 pointer all it's life by the seams of it. (To quote this hunter who has farmed deer all his life) a 6 pointer will always be a 6 pointer, and now all it's offspring are 6 pointers too.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Billbob View Post
    Yes I'll get a photo of the antlers once it comes out of bleach. Basically a huge 6 pointer with nodules things on the tops where the royals should be. Been a 6 pointer all it's life by the seams of it. (To quote this hunter who has farmed deer all his life) a 6 pointer will always be a 6 pointer, and now all it's offspring are 6 pointers too.
    As a farmer I've learned that the bull stamps his progeny , there's always exceptions tho.
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    Here are the photos of the antlers.

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    He was on the pension and some,that's for sure.
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    What are you guys looking for when putting an age on something like this with only a picture of jaw ? Wear ? Condition?
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