Anyone have a good place to send a jaw bone of a whitetail to get aged? I have watched videos on how to do it, but that only gets me to 5.5 years old. This one is older than that, so I want to send it in to get an accurate age.
Nice problem to have! If you have a local dnr wildlife office, one of them should be able to age it for you
We took a doe in for CWD in Malmo opener and we figured it was old, we asked if they could age it, the DNR guy said “sure” got this jaw spreader, spread them and said “it’s at least 10 years old, more than likely alot more”… the back teeth were almost gone… took him about 3 seconds. 
We took a doe in for CWD in Malmo opener and we figured it was old, we asked if they could age it, the DNR guy said “sure” got this jaw spreader, spread them and said “it’s at least 10 years old, more than likely alot more”… the back teeth were almost gone… took him about 3 seconds.
I think that DNR guy was blowing smoke. He might be able to say it was more than 5 years old by tooth wear, but no way in HE double hockey sticks he can say more than 10. A 10 year old deer would have zero teeth left unless it ate apple sauce all it’s life 
From what I have heard and read, the only way to get an accurate age from the teeth is to send it in to a lab. Cementum aging or Cementum Annuli is what it’s called. A friend of mine sends them in to the University of Minnesota to have his deer aged. I think there are several places to send it in though, Matsons Lab etc. There is nothing scientific about tooth wear. It’s about like aging a deer based on body shape and size. It’s doable until they are over 4 then you are just throwing numbers around. All you need to do is pull the two front teeth and send those in.
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