Gross vs Net

[Charlie P]

What is the point of a net score?

A buck grows what he grows and nothing is perfect in nature so why make all these deductions on antlers ?

[Vabowman]

I don't know either. Why a drying period???

[_Dan]

I've been trying to figure that out for a long time. Makes zero sense.

[125py]

I 100% agree. Nets are for fishing, soccer, hockey, basketball, etc......they have no place in the whitetail world in my opinion

[MN/Kyle]

There is no point IMO.

I prob started out as a pissin' match. "My buck is bigger than yours because..."

But I have no idea.

[BTBowhunter]

I think the intent was to recognize symmetry and perfection but I personally dont agree with the idea of subtracting from the score.

As CarlieP said: A buck grows what he grows!

[IAhuntr]

Another thumbs down for deductions here, especially in scoring a non-typical! They deduct for differences in the mainframe while adding theinches that shouldn't be there at all anyway, howredundant is that!??While Iappreciate the beauty in a perfectly symmetrical rack, I'd prefer more antler inchesover symmetry any day of the week. Anytime I see a deer harvest published, I only pay attention to the gross score as that more accurately tells me what he actually looked like.

[huntingson]

There is a guy who owns an archery shop about 30 minutes from my house who has started his own scoring system that has no deductions. In order to be "typical" one side cannot be x-inches (I can't remember) different than the other. If it is it is just scored as a non-typical, but there are still no deductions. I really like that system. P&Y and B&C scoring systems are junk. The head of P&Y's score keeping actually stated that the more symmetric the rack, the better rack it was. Can you imagine that? Actually thinking that one rack is better than another. That is like judging snow flakes.

[shed33]

Gross score gives them credit where credit is due, thats forsure. Net was originally and still should be intended for horns, not antlers.

[Sliverflicker]

I never was to keen on the net score. I can see the drying period.