Actually a lot of those "Old Boys" out yonder never got beyond about the second grade or so and the higher math involved in adding up the sum of the two sides just never registered. They could get up to ten O.K. by just using their fingers (unless they had been involved in a roping accident or something) but putting the whole thing together just couldn't happen. Therefore, certain areas of the country are now stuck with this archaic system by which antler sizes/count must be thrown out there for the rest of us to do the higher math.....Now, where the Hell did I put my calculator???