Wait two more years if you want to have a chance at a monster. This deer is exactly what you want to give a chance to reach old age (5 1/2-6 1/2).
Shoot him 3 years ago if you want tender meat.

Is that a homemade, artificial licking branch he's working

that you set the trail camera on for Portraits of local bucks ?

w

You are right however....
Between the heavy snows of winter and the still present threat of wolves these prime worn down bucks are largely the first to succumb in the coming hard months. I rarely rarely see them bigger and have found plenty of nice racks like this by watching Ravens. They lead you to the kills.
I am nowhere near any agriculture so they don't have that option. Some years I have tried feeding the deer but that becomes a magnate area for wolves.
Darned if you do, darned if you don't.

Osky

That is a product that Bucksnbears and I have developed for deer management. Thousands of pictures and tons of them you would not believe what the deer are doing at them.

Osky

Tell us more.

w

Interesting thread.

He’s a good 4 1/2 year old

OMG Catch I about spit out my coffee. I love trapperman. I laugh so often.
With that being said. 4 1/2. Maybe older. We often underage based on horns. We shot a 7 1/2, 51/2, and 41/2 last year off ours. In Northern MN they better be big bodied. Not sure of your area but even with the amount of land my brother and I own if we let him go and he crosses into the neighbors he is dead.

I will soon, we have a part of the patenting were waiting on for approval. I am not a trophy whitetail guy or guru but I have sure learned a lot I've never seen in print.

Osky

Bear I don't really have neighbors, up here there are hunters and hunting " clubs" of course but to be honest there are so many pieces of land 40 acres and bigger that hunters never walk on, a deer can go 100 yards in any direction and never be seen again. The only long shots are over swamps, most grass plenty hi enough to hide the deer, and clear cuts before they grow in.

Osky

My first thought is 3.5 but I've no experience looking at Northern deer

4 yr old

My guess would be healthy 3-1/2 or 4-1/2..

[quote]Longer face decent body 4.5 year old 137-140" good woods buck,a shooter good luck this weekend.[/quote

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lol,,gotta figure

I agree with others 3.5 -4.5, I used to hunt Dryden Ontario and bucks like that were once common. Wolves ,winter, and too many Vermonters killing 2.5 year old bucks and the buck numbers and quality declined.

That was good. In all seriousness, I'm going to go with 4 1/2. I'd shoot him the first time I laid eyes on him because that would probably be the first and last time I ever saw him.

I would say 4.5 - 5.5. My guess on score is 150's. Want to see a picture of you and him together!! Good luck.

Thanks catch just spit coffee all over my phone!!!