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Zeke's Theory: Unlocking the Whitetail Antler Growth Process

Zeke's Theory: Unlocking the Whitetail Antler Growth Process

Zimmerman, Eric V.

Paperback

Hunting

Publisher Price: $23.00

ISBN13: 9798886831269
Publisher: Dorrance Pub Co Inc
Published: Dec 16 2022
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.17 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Zeke's Theory: Unlocking the Whitetail Antler Growth Process

By: Eric V. Zimmerman


I have been told I have an obsessive type personally, and after reading my book, I think you all will agree. I became obsessed with aging whitetails in my teens, being shown by one of the PGC biologists what the 18-month-old's tooth looks like along with a brief description on how to use tooth wear and dentine thickness to determine the ages of deer above 18 months of age. My civilian work life has always involved the processing of deer, and if I cut off the antlers of a buck brought in to be processed, I would slice open the cheek, pry open its mouth, and age that buck. I would also weigh the carcasses, and a few patterns did start to form between age, weight, and antler size, and it was not supporting what is considered common knowledge about bucks and how their antlers grow. In 1998, I shot this eight-point and in 2004my daughter shot this cute little six-point. I have been studying these two bucks ever since, believing that the difference in the size of the antlers between these two bucks is based on the month they were born in and wondering in theory if the smaller buck's antler size ever catches up to the larger buck in the following years.

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