ORIGINAL: Insatiable
They had a great article on this in the Fall edition of Pope and Young Newsletter/Magazine.
The people who came up with the scoring system did so to rank how "perfect" a rack is according to their vision, which was one wide but not too wide, and symetrical tines, and mass.
There is no such thing as a gross score, only the net counts. It is not listed on te\he B & C or P&Y score sheet anywhere. Only the net value. We only invented the term gross because it gives total antler lenght regardless of symmetry.
The net score is the ONLY way you can realistically compare two racks.
Pffft. There is infact a gross score on both scoresheets titled "Total" or "Subtotal" depending on which you are referring. That would be the the "total" or "gross" score before the human factor of nitpicking deductions in which we penalize the animal based on parts that those organizations have controversially deemed "unwanted" or "undesirable".
And to state that you can't realistically compare racks based on gross score couldn't be any further from the truth.The gross score give a much better mental picture of how big the rack actually was while net score greatly diminish the score of an otherwise truly giant buck.
To penalize a non-typical buck for differences in the G tines, yet reward him for a one sided drop tine is borderline ridiculous. Why is some of his bone "good" and scored while some is "bad" and deducted?? Makes no sense.