Question About A Specific Buck's Rack

[The Silence]

I believe I've found the core area of a buck but I'm having a hard time aging him based on the width and mass of his rack with the pics I've gotten. One thing he does have though is a strange little 4" tine coming out near one of his brow tines as well as several other small stickers that are coming out as well. In your guys experience, what age deer have you seen when these types of points start showing up around the base of their racks?

 

[LYON]

I've seen odd abnormal points on a 1.5 year old. Completely dependent on the deer.

Never try to age a deer on rack alone. Body pics are what tells the story. Do you have any pics to share and maybe we can give some ideas on age.

 

[meyeri]

I've seen plenty of 2 1/2 and 3 1/2 year olds with abnormal kicker and sticker points. Mass is one of the things that generally takes age to acquire, but even then, it's not a guarantee. Like said above, the body traits should be used over the rack to estimate age.

 

[BDAHMS]

X2 on body. Don't even look At his rack in most cases

 

[MNbuckhunter]

No one can truly help you on this unless you share a picture. I have a 1.5 yr old with a split brow this year...

 

[hans1]

I would go by mass. More specifically 5 inch of more bases and close to that between the brow and g2 "H1" . On wild deer Mass is a pretty good correlation with age