This deer officially grosses 312 and nets 295. When you conjure up a 295 class buck in your head, do you see this?
17" of deduction on a 312" buck isn't nothing to get excited about in my mind on a NT buck. Thats very impressive to say the least with that many inches of rack. This rack in reality is very symetrical with only having 5.5% in deductions. The average typical buck has 8% deductions on it which figures out to about 8".