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[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!

 

[Steve O]

Since I got my B&C musk ox euro back and had him at the sheep show I must have been asked by 100 people how old he was. I meant to send a tooth in when I got back but got super busy…let’s give it a shot!

 

[Sawitrightoff]

I guess I’d rather look at my euro mounts with all the teeth they had when they died, and not know their age, rather than know how old they were, but at the cost of looking at missing teeth.

 

[Steve O]

I guess I’d rather look at my euro mounts with all the teeth they had when they died, and not know their age, rather than know how old they were, but at the cost of looking at missing teeth.

They use one tooth from the LOWER jaw…

 

[dlee56]

Welcome Matson’s! Been using you guys for 7 years now. My favorites were my 2019 8.5yo buck and 2022 6.5yo buck. Excited to keep using you all for years to come.
I’d be interested to get an age on my OK whitetail I got a couple years ago

 

[Desert_Muley]

Welcome! I will be using your services on my next animal. Which I hope is a mule deer buck.

 

[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.

So the verdict is in. Sounds like they tried and reached out on how to get a gift certificate and no one got back to them.… guess I do need to be in the mix.

 

[Caseknife]

Welcome @Big Sky Guy, I have sent in quite a few teeth and will be sending more in the future if I am so fortunate to harvest something worthwhile.

 

[willfrye027]

I really need to send some teeth in that I’ve got in the freezer.

Would love to know the ages of my Idaho, Arizona, Nevada, and CA blacktail bucks from the past few years. Got the teeth sitting there and eventually I will send them in!

 

[Big Sky Guy]

So the verdict is in. Sounds like they tried and reached out on how to get a gift certificate and no one got back to them.… guess I do need to be in the mix.

That’s pretty unusual. Only thing I can think is if they used the online contact form on our website it’s in our spam folder but we haven’t had that issue for several years that I’m aware of. I can check tomorrow but the best bet is for them to call in and give cc and address to send to over phone. 406-258-6286 should be someone there that can help 830-4pm MST, M-F.

 

[resident vs nonresident]

Welcome . Happy past seasons customer here m, so will have to get some animals this fall for you guys to age.

 

[cams]

Welcome Matsons. Would really like to know how old is the buck that my son harvested last year.

 

[mt100gr.]

Welcome! I have a few lower jaws in the freezer right now from this past season....

 

[MuleyFever]

Welcome. I often wonder how old some of my animals are but not enough to take the effort to have them aged.