they are weird in how they hold fat versus antlers too.
the 3x3 I shot 2 years ago was only a year older than the 4x5 I shot last year.
the 3x3 didn't look like he had much antler size and even hanging on the wall they don't look like much, but as soon as you take them down and hold them, or put them by other sets of antlers you realize the mass and length they have. [just no width]
the deer was the same way, he was real wide bodied but didn't look all that big from the side.
once he was hung up and skinned he was covered with close to 20 lbs of fat [inside and outside together] and internally you could pull out handfuls of the stuff from around the tenderloins.
lots of meat on him too.
the 4x5 was just rolling in fat and has a very symmetrical set of antlers with a good almost 25" outside spread.
once all the fat was cut away he started losing body mass real quick and I only got maybe 2/3rds the amount of meat off him.