[Pro-Hunt]

He was aged at 1.5--2 years old by the G&P's when checking it in.
The younger(but not really young) guy that aged it kept second guessing himself saying it had to be older than that. An older G&P guy came over and checked it out. He proceeded to ask the younger guy what is the number one rule when aging deer? The younger guy says 'go by the teeth not by the antlers'. The older guy then asks how old is that deer. The reply was 1.5 to 2 at most. These were wardens not just some gomers they hired to check in deer.
I was surprised also at the age. When I shot him; going by the body (and antlers) I was figuring 3-3.5 year old range. He had a big body but did not have that old man sway back to him. After hearing its age I was kind of sick that I shot him as he would have grown into a monster. I seriously doubt though that he would have made it to get very old as he was shot really close to some public land that gets hunted hard.

Now for my point in asking this question..............

I think it goes to show (has also been proven in studies) that genetics is what makes a big deer; not just any deer that gets old.
This is why we all as deer hunters need to get to killing some does so we can get our herd back in line.
With all the does we have the genetically inferior deer are doing a lot of breeding which in turn makes us have a lot more little bucks running around no matter how old they get.
Before I get jumped on let me say I do not support the shooting of dink bucks. This is all about shooting doe's to get the herd ratio back in line where it should be.