Welcome Matson's Lab--Get your game lab-aged for free!

[justin davis]

Welcome! Here are a few I’d like to know the age of.

 

[Loco4dux]

Welcome! I’ve used your service before and will use it again!

Would love to have this buck aged that I killed over a decade ago.

 

[Alpineelk]

Welcome to rokslide. Have a bull and a buck I'm currently waiting to get back from them

 

[Big Sky Guy]

Since I didn’t see it asked already, is the tooth returned, in case one wants to do a Euro, and not have a gap?

For ungulates like deer and elk etc. the preferred tooth is the lower central incisor (I1). If you don’t save those then we can age any of the upper premolar or molar teeth. The morphology of those teeth is such that the crown comes down to where we trim the root off so there isn’t much left to put back in the mount. I tried doing this with a bison skull we found in a river bank a few years back. I decided not worth the effort of trying to get it back in the skull. Same thing with ivories in elk. Trimming and putting the crown back in the skull really only works well/easily with the canine teeth of carnivores.

See photos:


Bison premolar crown with roots trimmed off. Also worth noting we were not able to age this as the skull had been in the river bank for way too long and degraded the cementum.



Elk ivories (upper canines) with roots trimmed off and then some whole ones from deadheads next to similar sized ones we’ve processed.




Coyote skull with the upper canine root tip trimmed off. We didn’t glue it back in so we can demonstrate just this but as you can see it goes right back in and can never tell the difference.




Deadhead whitetail that we ended up processing 2 premolars from one side and one molar from the other. You can’t really notice it’s missing 3 teeth unless you look at it from the right angle(s).

 

[Sierra Hunter]

Welcome to the forum and thank you doing yeomans work! I have a mule deer that I pulled out of WY that must of survived the harsh winter im curious about. I also happened to ask my family for a gift certificate to your lab for my birthday which is today, tbd on if they came through! Again welcome, it’s long overdue.

 

[Camel titties]

Welcome!! I have a couple bucks that I would have loved to get aged.

 

[Bonehammer]

Welcome! Love this service and will continue to use going forward. I have a few bucks taken over 10 years ago that I would have loved to have aged!