RE: 4x4 or 8 point?
split hoof
beats me, they were doing it that way before I came along.
I think if you say you got a 4 point it is another way of saying you got a mature deer. Nobody really cares if it had eyeguards or not. I am talking mule deer.
If you say you got a 5 point it sounds like you shot a non-typical.
Probably shouldn' t look for the logic, just is what it is.