can you guys age this deer???

[waterweasle]

ok guys found this while at work, wanteed to see what everyone thought as how old it is

[mark3885]

If this is from a NY deer , I wuold say from the enamel width and the overall wear, i'd say 8 1/2 yrs old. I only saw this much wear, one other time on a 91/2 yr old captive deer that died of natural causes. Its hard to judge just from pictures but after 61/2 yrs you tend to consider body size, mass ,antler mass etc.Looking again at the pictures , is this the upper jaw, if so it could be 91/2 as the upper wears less than the lower jaw ,usually. Just my 2 cents.

[waterweasle]

lol yeah its a deer, a doe, all I found was the skull

[nyantler]

its an older deer... the fact that it's a doe is probably the reason it got that old