I personally, don't exagerate anything when it comes to hunting. I am an electrician by trade and a woodworker hobbiest. My personality (type A) dictates that I am precise. The GF calls me analytical. My number one passion is hunting for whitetails. That led me to become an archery fanatic. The GF, son and I shot competitive archery from 1993 to 2000. I shot for High Country during that time. I too have all the equiptment to tune and service bows. I chrono everything that we shoot. It is a great tuning tool. So... when someone asks me how many pounds, draw weight or how fast, I tell them exactly what I've got and what it'll do. I can't comprehend what exagerating would do to benifit me. Being a trophy hunter, I am usually within 1 to 3 inches of what a buck will score. Can you imagine, after telling your hunting buds about the 165 inch 12 point you're after, thenyou bring home a 118 inch 8 point? Good one! For the most part, when someone tells me what size buck they've seen, I take it with a grain of salt. To believe it I'd have to see the buck myself. I've really only gotthree friends whose scores I would trust. In almost all of these circumstances, the hunter was so excited about the buck they'd seen, that they were in such awe they couldn't count points or tally a score if they tried. This is a good thing, it's what hunting is all about. It is a known fact that excitement can cause antler size to increase every time the story is told! This kind of exageration can be tolerated because it wasn't intentional. Intentional exageration is no good. It causes one to lose their reliability trustworthyness. This is not worth it to me. Things are what they are, no need to lie about them.