scoring/points/numbers... are used to mark an accomplishment or set a standard to be compared to something. That's where I think the scoring of bucks has gone off track. It's a means of comparing bucks. How do you determine who's buck is "better" by some number?

example:
scenario #1- Early morning opening day of shotgun and I feel uncomfortable. I don't feel the mo jo in this stand I think I'll move. Actually I'm not even sure where I am but maybe I'll head that way it looks easier to walk for me. After getting down and picking up everything that fell out of my pockets in the process I head out. Shoot I gotta take a leak. Set gun down and out walks a 150 " buck. OH WOW !!! I grab the gun go to shoot ...dang safety where is that thing? Oh ok got it raise gun again and crap never put slugs in. Flinging cell phone, car keys, radio, etc.... out of pockets I arrive at a slug and chamber it and hit him towards the arse. He doesnt' drop dead right in front of me so I figure I missed him. Oh well maybe next year. Fortunately my buddy found him on his way out of the woods!! WHEW what a buck.

scenario #2-atlasman after sleeping the night in the woods and being one with the animal he is hunting is in pursuit of the buck he saw bed down. He crawls on his stomach for over 500 yards in the pouring cold rain to set up his ambush position. He's almost to the spot where he thinks the encounter will happen when he comes across a rattlesnake. He's eye to eye with it and just when the snake is about to attack, he reaches out and bites his head off and spits it to the ground. He proceeds through the prickers and gets into position. He's comes to a the edge of a giant gully . A limb sticks out from a big Oak tree. He stalks his way down the limb looking straight down at the gully now some 70 feet below him. Here comes the buck. A nice 100" 6 pointer. He hasnt' eaten in days so this is his golden opportunity. The buck strolls right under him and atlasman leaps down from the limb landing on the buck and with one swift motion breaks his neck with his bare hands.

Who's is the better buck?