Let them grow?

[littlebigtine]

Ill leave this here

 

[AHayes111]

A lot of bucks will be their biggest at 3 or 4 years.

I can agree with everything you have written down but bucks at there biggest at 3 or 4. I have found little evidence of this. Some bucks will be big at age 3, they will be bigger at age 7 or 8 barring some disease or catastrophic weather event.

 

[LostWapiti]

I can agree with everything you have written down but bucks at there biggest at 3 or 4. I have found little evidence of this. Some bucks will be big at age 3, they will be bigger at age 7 or 8 barring some disease or catastrophic weather event.

Given consistent feed and weather conditions they will probably peak older but we all know that weather and range conditions change a lot. If 3 or 4 is when they have the best conditions then that could be their biggest year. Mass will always go up but length may not. Being biggest at 3 or 4 is definitely not the norm but entirely possible and somewhat common, especially 4 as 4 will be very close to the peak anyways given constant range conditions.