You need a flexible cable for this measurement, which is another that many hunters get wrong, for a couple reasons. Second, it can be tough to keep the cable in proper alignment as you stretch it along the length of the beam. Start from the lowest outside edge of the burr. I tape the cable to the beam at this spot then use additional pieces of tape to hold the cable in place as I work it along the outside contour of the beam. When the cable reaches the end of the main beam, mark that spot with an alligator clip.
Then remove the cable and stretch it alongside a tape measure laid on a flat surface to get the measurement. But if you want to do it right, just repeat the process for the other side of the rack. The rack pictured is a squeaky-clean point with no abnormal points. The Boone and Crockett Club recognizes two categories of whitetail deer.
The larger and the more familiar to most of us is the common whitetail, which is found in Mexico, all but a handful of states in the United States, and in many parts of Canada. These things can be quickly evaluated in the field with a few simple calculations. The average buck, with his ears in an alert position, has an ear tip-to-tip spread of 16 inches. His ears will measures six inches from the base to the tip. The circumference of his eye is four inches, and from the center of the eye to the end of his nose should measure about eight inches.
Is he outside of his ear tips? If so, by how much? For example, if his main beam appears to be half an ear or three inches outside the ear tip on each side, then by adding 6 to 16 we find that he has a inch spread. These measurements would be somewhere in the ballpark of 3. If time allows it often does not and if the buck is generally symmetrical, you can simply multiply the sum of the antler measurement by two.
For this buck, a very symmetrical buck, we can total the antler measurements to be roughly inches. You do not get the luxury of confirming your estimations in the field while hunting. This picture can be a trail camera picture, a harvest picture, or even a freeze-frame of a video if you happen to film your hunts! The results are posted below. You will watch a quick video encounter with a buck and be given 4 multiple choice options of scores.
There are 10 bucks to score with a time limit of 10 minutes for the entire quiz. This allows you 1 minute to score each buck, about all the time you might receive in a real hunting scenario. This now allows real encounter scoring. Within minutes of snapping the picture, you can have a score of the deer before he even offers you a shot opportunity! Your email address will not be published.
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Go to www. Place your antlers, your measuring tape, yardstick and steel cable on a table. The skull plate should be sitting on your table so that you can take horizontal and vertical measurements of the rack. You will need to take all measurements to the nearest one-eighth inch. Part 2. Measure the tip-to-tip spread with your measuring tape.
This is the distance between the tip of the right antler and the tip of the left antler. Take the measurement from the front of the antlers. This is usually a small measurement because the main beams reach toward each other in the middle of the rack.
Find the greatest spread. This is the distance between the widest point of the left antler to the widest point of the right antler. This horizontal measurement can be taken along any point of antlers along the main beam. Locate the inside spread of the main beams.
Measure the horizontal distance between the widest curve of the main beam on each side. Calculate the length of the main beam. Start at the burr, where the antlers meet the skull. Twist your flexible measuring tape so that it follows the center of the lowest outside edge of the main beam over the outer side to the end of the main beam. Antlers are not perfectly symmetrical.
Part 3. Distinguish the normal points from abnormal points. Abnormal points can extend from the main beam near the burr. Total up the lengths from base to tip of each abnormal point on the right antler and on the left antler.
Measure each normal point on the right antler.
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