Thread: Public Land Roar Predictions?

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

its balls have dropped...its more than 2 years old...more likely 3-4 so its mature...not old and past prime mature but its definately an adult....

Interesting use of mature considering usually mature in hunting terms is usually used interchangeably with old. I wouldn't describe a teen with balls dropped mature never mind 95% of 30 year old. But no argument he's sexually mature or an adult.

Originally Posted by Stocky

Interesting use of mature considering usually mature in hunting terms is usually used interchangeably with old. I wouldn't describe a teen with balls dropped mature never mind 95% of 30 year old. But no argument he's sexually mature or an adult.

Mature to me means that the animal is fully grown. I would class the stag as 'a young stag' three or four years old. A mature stag is six or even seven years plus. A spiker is not a stag, it is a spiker till now and then it is a rising 2yr stag. I am always astounded how the current crop of fawns are fawns when they are running around but become 'yearlings' instantly when they are shot