I beg to differ on the question of legal. Legal is not that horns have to be outside eartips. That's just a guide, legal is 13 inches inside spread at the widest spot. If you were to start a tape at the inside top of the right side and ran that tape down to the inside bottom of the left side. I think you'd get more than 13 inches. The tape would run from 10 o'clock to 4 o'clock. So, I'd vote that Yes, that's technically a legal buck. Shooter for me, no. Give him till next year to see of that left side gets corrected.

I beg to differ. was with a buddy when game warden measured a deer a couple of years ago. not as bad angle, but left side was straight up, right side was at a 45 degree down angle. Game warden measured furthest inside distance, not what the distance would have been had the antler grown normally. That dear had less width than this dear and it measured as legal.

I beg to differ. was with a buddy when game warden measured a deer a couple of years ago. not as bad angle, but left side was straight up, right side was at a 45 degree down angle. Game warden measured furthest inside distance, not what the distance would have been had the antler grown normally. That dear had less width than this dear and it measured as legal.

You are supposed measure for where the antler would have grown normally and they are supposed to measure antler spread across the forehead and perpendicular to the antler bases according to B&C from what I have seen. But that is an antler damage and not growing in the normal way it would especially if it is loose in the skull. How would the GW determine if the break was an older break done by the deer or new break done by a hunter wanting a legal deer? If I am wrong them I am wrong but I would not take a chance on every GW measuring it the same way.