Sweet Pics Of A Buck's Aging Progression

[Hoytmania]

Very cool and thanks for sharing

 

[Big_Holla]

Pretty damn cool. Sure helps debunk all the myths about once a spike...

 

[rgecko23]

That was really cool to see, especially his downward spiral to almost nothing. Crazy

 

[Strother23]

Very cool read. 12.5yrs is an old deer. I wonder if deer ever make it to be that old by themselves without our help.? Like but tracts of public land or just being a nocturnal.

 

[jagermeister]

Pretty cool. I just wish they'd say exactly how they knew it was the same buck. I mean, I see the obvious resemblance through its adult years... But what told them it was the same deer going from a fawn to a yearling? A spike to a basket rack... How'd they make that connection?

 

[Outdoorsfellar]

Very interesting. You hate to see something so majestic go downhill. Such is life, dammit.

 

[hickslawns]

Pretty cool. I just wish they'd say exactly how they knew it was the same buck. I mean, I see the obvious resemblance through its adult years... But what told them it was the same deer going from a fawn to a yearling? A spike to a basket rack... How'd they make that connection?

Making an assumption here: Article and pictures were from Charles Alsheimer. I would imagine these pics are from his enclosure.

 

[finelyshedded]

That was very cool!!! Thanks for sharing!

 

[jagermeister]

Making an assumption here: Article and pictures were from Charles Alsheimer. I would imagine these pics are from his enclosure.

Yea perhap. Maybe the enclosure only had a few deer inside it. I always thought Alzheimer's enclosure was pretty big. Seems like it'd be tough to tell that a basket rack was a spike the year before without some sort of unique marker.

 

[hickslawns]

Very true. I thought it was pretty big too. From spike to next progression would be the questionable one for sure. His last year would be easier simply because there couldn't have been as many old, grey faced, bucks to differentiate.

 

[jagermeister]

Very true. I thought it was pretty big too. From spike to next progression would be the questionable one for sure. His last year would be easier simply because there couldn't have been as many old, grey faced, bucks to differentiate.

Right. The 1.5 to 2.5 is the only jump that I question. No reason to not believe it... I was just hoping they would've acknowledged how exactly they kept track of that particular deer is all.

 

[finelyshedded]

I was wondering the same thing JB. Total assumption here but I figured the other bucks in the enclosure were identified as well to where the process of elimination came into play. Don't know????

It was kinda sad seeing him wither away like he did! Gives me even more respect and awe in what these mature deer go through in the wild and my admiration was already out the roof!

 

[bowhunter1023]

I doubt Charlie would put his name to this if he wasn't sure.

 

[Spencie]

Good stuff. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Big_Holla]

Here's a new one on GrowingDeer.tv this morning.

Here's a link to that article too

http://www.growingdeer.tv/view/2014/12/12/the-dwindling-of-two-face/