5X5 or 10pt
10-28-2002 | 04:13 PM
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From: Burien WA USA
5X5 or 10pt
Kind of a dumb question but I was just curious as to why in diffrent parts of the country people will call a rack diffrently. It has been my experience in the west that a rack is called by the number of points on each side 4X5, etc. Whereas in other parts it is called by the total number of points, 9pt. Does anyone know why?
10-28-2002 | 04:23 PM
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From: Charlottesville IN USA
RE: 5X5 or 10pt
them westerners cant count past 6 or 7 <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle> <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
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10-28-2002 | 08:31 PM
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RE: 5X5 or 10pt
Yep, what trapperdave said!!<img src=icon_smile_tongue.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>
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10-28-2002 | 10:40 PM
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RE: 5X5 or 10pt
Them Eastern like to make it sound big by saying " I shot me a 9 pointer". Don't believe me what sounds bigger 4 x 5 or 9 pointer, I rest my case!
Actually I asked the very same question a month or so ago on the deer forum. The response I got was; easterns call every point over 1" a point and total it. While Westerns call it right side and left side, some count the brows (eye gaurds) others don't. I guess my answer was, who knows why, it just is what it is!!!!!
Actually I asked the very same question a month or so ago on the deer forum. The response I got was; easterns call every point over 1" a point and total it. While Westerns call it right side and left side, some count the brows (eye gaurds) others don't. I guess my answer was, who knows why, it just is what it is!!!!!
10-28-2002 | 10:50 PM
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RE: 5X5 or 10pt
Trapperjohn, we just get tired counting past 6 or 7. When I talk to my friends back east I always call it a 4x4 or 5x5 or ect. That way they know what I am talking about. The local boys here, I would call it a 4 pointer or a 5. I would not call a 4x4, a 8 pointer. When you are in Rome, you do as the Romans. Good luck this season, Bobby
10-29-2002 | 04:49 AM
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From: Barryton MI USA
RE: 5X5 or 10pt
so what do you call a spike a 1x1 <img src=icon_smile_tongue.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle> just messing with you westerner's A friend of mine is from colorado and he got a nice buck here in michigan and he brought it over and said he got a 4x4 so I asked him Chevy, Ford or Dodge