Check this guy out

[wm742]

This is the first time I have seen him.
I'm thinking super old spike.

 

[Milkman]

I don't see a spike buck. Did you attach the correct image?

 

[bear claw]

Nor old

I don't see a spike buck. Did you attach the correct image?

 

[northgeorgiasportsman]

I concur with the gentlemen above. Not a spike, and not old.

 

[wm742]

My understanding is this is what you get when you let a spike walk for 6 or 7 years

 

[northgeorgiasportsman]

My understanding is this is what you get when you let a spike walk for 6 or 7 years

I'm afraid that's a misunderstanding.

 

[Milkman]

My understanding is this is what you get when you let a spike walk for 6 or 7 years

I may be wrong but I don’t think that buck is more than 2 years old.

 

[wm742]

I understand his body looks young, but his face looks like he is about to die of old age

 

[Toliver]

Maybe just worn down from the rut? Or do you have history with him from years past?

 

[wm742]

I didn't run cameras the last 2 years.
Nothing about that deer looks like any of the deer I see or have got pictures of.

I've been on this property 5 years and usually have 3 or 4 small spikes every year. Some are pretty crazy.

 

[Wanderlust]

I see a 2 year old 5pt.

 

[buckpasser]

Looks a typical young buck to me. I’m betting he is a little nicer next year.

 

[catch22]

I agree with the group. 2yr old 5pt in the picture. Will likely be a nice 8 point next year

 

[godogs57]

Y’all need to learn how to age a deer. 2.5 at the very most…

 

[westcobbdog]

Looks like a 7 pt to me.

 

[Buckstop]

Gray in the face hasn’t anything to do with age.

It used to though years ago when old timers would tell you the 120 lb spike they killed was an old, old deer, “just look at all that gray in the face”.

 

[Jim Boyd]

Spike Buck to Booner: The Magic of Age - Legendary Whitetails

Witness the incredible transformation of a whitetail’s antlers from unimpressive spike buck to majestic Booner to old age over a period of 12 years.

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[Toliver]

Spike Buck to Booner: The Magic of Age - Legendary Whitetails

Witness the incredible transformation of a whitetail’s antlers from unimpressive spike buck to majestic Booner to old age over a period of 12 years.

community.legendarywhitetails.com

I remember as a kid listening to the club members argue until they were red in the face over "once a spike always a spike?" Got pretty heated at times. The statute of limitations has long passed so I'll add this.... they finally decided a spike didn't count as a buck for your club limit so they used the kids' free honorary tags to put on their 3rd set of antlers. I left that club in 1990 when I joined the Army but I think they actually moved to qdm before the county did.