RE: what makes antlers typical or non typical?
Sorry guys, differences in the number of tines on opposite sides don't constitute a nontypical.
Whitetail deer have a certain 'normal' arrangement of tines, that being a main beam with individual tines growing off that at intervals. The first is the brow tine, designated G1, then the G2 and so on.
Any departure from this normal arrangement qualifies points as abnormal and they can be used to score negatively (deductions from the typical point score) or positively (added to the net typical score.) If you add them, you're scoring the deer as nontypical.
Points which qualifyinclude anything pointing down (drop tines), anything growing off another point (kickers, split tines), and extra junk in places like near the base.
Getting back to the 2 sides having a different number of typical points (such as a 4x5), the side having the extra point simply will have the measurement of that point deducted from the score since it has no match.