Would you shoot this deer?

[badaboom]

Looks like Mesa Verde National Park - Mule Deer

 

[Country Bumpkin]

I would pass.. I haven't shot a buck in 30 years? I hunt for the freezer and
I have learned that does are far better on the table. The last buck I shot
you could smell from 30 feet away and my hands and clothes reeked!
No more..

This is funny to me. My family and I have been keeping track of the last several bucks I've shot. We have decided that the skunky bucks have more flavor. Maybe we are nuts, but we prefer the skunkers.

It sounds horrible now that I proof read this....

 

[257Tony]

Uh...maybe....View attachment 153393
This one looked bigger alive....its a 168" buck...20" wide inside...big bases and pedicals more influential to older age....
No teeth...just like I like'm.....but 3" of fat on his butt.....
Alfalfa and oats.....probably won't taste very good.....

Could just be the picture, but I'm not seeing 168 on that Buck. 148 maybe?

 

[26Reload]

Quick score....168.1"...
20.1" inside spread...
107.3" main points.....
18.2" & 18.7" circumference....
3.4" eyeguards......

37" of mass....

 

[capstick58]

Would you shoot this deer or consider leaving it for seed for more like him in the future
? No right or wrong answer. I realize it could be a trophy of a lifetime. Just wondering what others might consider?

I saw it and shot my phone!

I would shoot this deer all day

 

[Canhunter35]

Could just be the picture, but I'm not seeing 168 on that Buck. 148 maybe?

I agree, this deer measured 147 5/8.
Just for reference

 

[Timeout]

View attachment 153709
I agree, this deer measured 147 5/8.
Just for reference

Awesome deer! Congrats.

 

[26Reload]

Just so you guys know....i lost a lot of pizza bets 'guessing scores'....i didn't ever win one when i had to score the antlers.....
But i have a lot of practice scoring antlers both elk(which I missed by lots on the guess(10" is a lot), deer and pronghorn...even lost one bet on a cow elk.........guy actually had one mounted..a matched pair...
I stopped by the local bike shop and got a new brake cable....i will breakdown the measurements to a gnatsass later tonite and post that score as well....

View attachment 153709
I agree, this deer measured 147 5/8.
Just for reference

Looks to me that you may have forgotten circumference measurements......if you have an eyeguard on each side you get two base and mainbeam measurements..then two above main fork...
If only one eyeguard you get two on that side and one on the other....
5" inches of mass really counts on scores.....and if no eyeguard 10" or mass is gone..........

 

[Hespco]

Looks like Mesa Verde National Park - Mule Deer

A few miles east of Mesa Verde. Nice guess.

 

[Canhunter35]

Just so you guys know....i lost a lot of pizza bets 'guessing scores'....i didn't ever win one when i had to score the antlers.....
But i have a lot of practice scoring antlers both elk(which I missed by lots on the guess(10" is a lot), deer and pronghorn...even lost one bet on a cow elk.........guy actually had one mounted..a matched pair...
I stopped by the local bike shop and got a new brake cable....i will breakdown the measurements to a gnatsass later tonite and post that score as well....



Looks to me that you may have forgotten circumference measurements......if you have an eyeguard on each side you get two base and mainbeam measurements..then two above main fork...
If only one eyeguard you get two on that side and one on the other....
5" inches of mass really counts on scores.....and if no eyeguard 10" or mass is gone..........

I didn't measure mine. B&c credited guys measured it at our local fish and game club

 

[257Tony]

Just so you guys know....i lost a lot of pizza bets 'guessing scores'....i didn't ever win one when i had to score the antlers.....
But i have a lot of practice scoring antlers both elk(which I missed by lots on the guess(10" is a lot), deer and pronghorn...even lost one bet on a cow elk.........guy actually had one mounted..a matched pair...
I stopped by the local bike shop and got a new brake cable....i will breakdown the measurements to a gnatsass later tonite and post that score as well....



Looks to me that you may have forgotten circumference measurements......if you have an eyeguard on each side you get two base and mainbeam measurements..then two above main fork...
If only one eyeguard you get two on that side and one on the other....
5" inches of mass really counts on scores.....and if no eyeguard 10" or mass is gone..........

Not true. On Mule Deer, if the brow point is missing, you still get 2 mass measurements at the base (H1 and H2)

From the official score sheet.....

If brow point is missing, take H-1 and H-2 at smallest place between burr and G-2.

 

[Riflehunter1776]

Maybe we are nuts, but we prefer the skunkers.

It sounds horrible now that I proof read this....

nah, it's better than being a bunch of skunks and preferring the nuts.

 

[26Reload]

Okay...my quick score was a touch off....yes...more than enough to cost me a pizza.......heres the numbers...

 

[257Tony]

Okay...my quick score was a touch off....yes...more than enough to cost me a pizza.......heres the numbers...View attachment 153776

Let's see some other pics of that buck, from the score he is very solid, that other pic must be a really bad angle.

FYI, the g1 is the brow, and there is no such thing as a g5.