Should have tried to score this buck. I considered my self lucky to be under 2" on my score than what the official B&C scorer who scored it for TBGA got. You should have seen the look on his face when I showed up for him to score this. The "official" deer contest score was 5" or 6" more than mine. Deer contest scores always seem to be high IME since they have nothing but upside for having more deer for people to look at on their contest pages. Some are closer to actual scores than others also.

It tastes like victory!

Damn impressive to get that close. Those blades would throw me for one heck of a loop and I would have been like that fella you mentioned earlier...sitting there for 20 minutes trying to decide which one was the browtine

Should have tried to score this buck. I considered my self lucky to be under 2" on my score than what the official B&C scorer who scored it for TBGA got. You should have seen the look on his face when I showed up for him to score this. The "official" deer contest score was 5" or 6" more than mine. Deer contest scores always seem to be high IME since they have nothing but upside for having more deer for people to look at on their contest pages. Some are closer to actual scores than others also.

You would be shocked at what the score was actually.

Well then tells us about it

You hit'm with the truck?

167"?

74 days....

That was his NET NT. His gross was a whole lot more.

70 days till he goes Poof for another season

Then you are right, I would be shocked.

189 and change gross NT. His side to side symmetry on net typical really pulled him down. I was over 187 on my gross score.

Who cares about a score?

Official scores from official scorers can vary as well......

Ah...that is another point that is typically missed between "camp score" and "official score." On a NT, most people just measure everything and that's the score. I have also seen people give net scores by measuring everything and then deducting any odd points and the difference between sides, instead of measuring the typical frame and deducting from there.

My "camp scores" are counted as gross and basically, if they grow it, I count it Guess I am guilty of what the OP was saying

And each on the panel could still be off on score.

Many contest scores are really high. I have seen camp scores in both directions.

Yep, especially on 8 pointers and the 3 mass measurements.

Watched a TV hunting show where the hosts killed a really nice 8 point and one of them said that it was sad that 8 points only get 3 mass measurements per side and they did not edit it for the show.

Do elk and deer always get four circumference measurements? What about eight-pointers? What about twelve-pointers?

Yes, elk and deer trophies ALWAYS get four circumferences. In the case of an eight-point whitetail, the G-4 is missing. Instead of looking for the smallest location between the G-3 and the G-4, the measurement is taken at the halfway point between the G-3 and the tip of the main beam. Similarly, on a mule deer with no G-3, the H-3 circumference measurement would be taken at a point halfway between where the G-2 measurement begins and the end of the G-2. For deer and elk, no matter how many normal points it has, four circumferences per side will always be the exact number of circumference measurements.