Another jaw bone aging

[Coastal Woodie]

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Whackums thread reminded me of this. Curious to what some of y’all age this one at.

[Calibogue]

You can't age a Jawbone like that. You write down five plus on your data sheet and move forward. Best you can do is cut out the incisors and send them aoff for cementum annuli aging if you really want to know. For what it is worth, I have sent incisors off from jawbones not so dissimilar from that one that came back as 12 years old.

[Coastal Woodie]

You can't age a Jawbone like that. You write down five plus on your data sheet and move forward. Best you can do is cut out the incisors and send them aoff for cementum annuli aging if you really want to know. For what it is worth, I have sent incisors off from jawbones not so dissimilar from that one that came back as 12 years old.

I plan to send them off at some point and see what they say.

It's crazy how a buck can get that old on a piece of highly pressured public ground.

[Calibogue]

Which one was it?

[Coastal Woodie]

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One from 2021.

I’m kicking myself for not pulling the jaw bones out of a couple of this seasons bucks.

[CUduckreeper]

One from 2021.

I’m kicking myself for not pulling the jaw bones out of a couple of this seasons bucks.

Like Cali said, just cut the bottom two front teeth out in the future. Much less labor intensive and reliable than pulling jaw bones and looking at tooth wear.

[Calibogue]

Like Cali said, just cut the bottom two front teeth out in the future. Much less labor intensive and reliable than pulling jaw bones and looking at tooth wear.

No, I did not say to just cut the incisors out.
Jawbone tooth wear agings is still a great tool for whitetail management.

[2thDoc]

You can't age a Jawbone like that. You write down five plus on your data sheet and move forward. Best you can do is cut out the incisors and send them aoff for cementum annuli aging if you really want to know. For what it is worth, I have sent incisors off from jawbones not so dissimilar from that one that came back as 12 years old.

or more! 12-15yrs old...

takes a helluva skilled hunter to kill a doe like that with a bow.

just sayin

[Calibogue]

Toofer truth...

[CUduckreeper]

You can't age a Jawbone like that. You write down five plus on your data sheet and move forward. Best you can do is cut out the incisors and send them aoff for cementum annuli aging if you really want to know. For what it is worth, I have sent incisors off from jawbones not so dissimilar from that one that came back as 12 years old.

I guess I misunderstood this.

[Calibogue]

My point was, for excessively old deer (as determined by tooth wear) by which you cannot estimate an age CA would be the only way to accurately determine age.
Tooth wear is generally pretty accurate out to 5.5 years old...anything beyond that is a stab in the dark based on tooth wear of course.

[Coastal Woodie]

Appreciate the insight Scott, I’ll pull the incisors and send them in.

[Coastal Woodie]

or more! 12-15yrs old...

takes a helluva skilled hunter to kill a doe like that with a bow.

just sayin

That sounds like a nightmare to get drawn back on.