I have this guy on camera 3 times now and this is the first in daylight hours. I want him. He has unusual antlers and it looks to be 3 spikes on his left side and a pretty nice right side with a bit of palmation. I think I saw him as a spike on my property but don't remember how many years ago exactly. He had 3 prongs sticking up on his left side then. I thought it was very unusual and hoped to see him again. Never did until maybe on a blurry pic last year and now this one just the other day. I already filled my management tag but sure would like to put my regular tag on this fella. I am not a good judge of age but I know some of you guys are..give me a guess, please.

If he was here, I would "guess" 3 or 4 but who cares? if he makes you happy then drill him

3.5 year old upper midwest buck

Not worried about age for me to harvest him. I sure would if given the chance. I'm just wondering if the young one with similar traits was actually him since I saw it at least 3 years ago..

Doug, that's an older deer.
Kill him!

I wonder if something happened to him to damage the skull or base of his antler when he was younger? Bucks with "character" like that are cool. I shot one about 5 years ago that I was after that had about 6 "stickers" off one main beam. He was a 10 point plus the 1.5-3 inch stickers and was really cool. Long story short, we had a little show down and he RAN across the opening and I connected. I about cried when I walked up to him and that side of the main beam was broken off just about in the middle. Had I seen that, I would have let him go.

3.5 year old, body structure.

I've been trying. He is right in front of my stand there, but the wind is wrong now for me to sit in that one right now.

That’s Louie
He’s 6 His rack turned out like that because his daddy was his brother who bred his older sister.
Kill him

I'd say he's 3.5 also
But I don't have experience with Dakotas whitetails
I have Borealis whitetails

I personally would wait a year, but that's just me

Good luck

Kin of yours then?

…. That deer was born April 23th 2020 @ 6:32 AM and weighed 4lbs 8 oz’s

I agree with others on the 3.5. He's swelled up in the neck but has little muscle structure to shoulders and rump. His back still has the upward arch, not that deep saddle look of an old deer. Brisket doesn't sag down and his rump angles way down from hips to tail. If he's a trophy to you that's all that matters.

He is bulked up pretty good I am gonna lean to 4yr. Old.

First site I figured 3or 4...
Belly ain't got any sag...

As many others have said, 3.5 yr old

I have seen guys talking about antlers messed up on one side are usually related to a previous injury to the hind quarter on opposite side.

Minimum 4.5 cause his neck meets his chest completely at the bottom. Leastwise around here 3.5's neck doesn't do that.

A few years ago, I had a buck hanging around my place prior to the season opener. He had two long spikes one on each side of his head; no points just the two spikes. They had to be close to 18 inches. Reminded me of a spike bull elk. Planned to shoot him if I saw him once the season opened. But, never saw him after that.

Took me a while to find the hind quarter video of this buck I shot couple years ago. We aged this one and test CWD. Anyways 6.5 years old. Look at the base of the tail in relationship to the height of the front shoulders. Additionally, how they fill out in the front shoulders is pretty amazing from 5 to 6 year old.