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Which way do you describe bucks - 10 point or 5 x 5?
01-30-2007 | 10:35 PM
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RE: Which way do you describe bucks - 10 point or 5 x 5?
ORIGINAL: goherd1111
I count all the points. However, I believe it is more a geographic thing. It seems that people from the east and midwest say 10 point where more people from the west say 5 x 5. I don't know if this is accurate. This is just the way it seems to me. I think its because you westerners have more large game animals like mulies and elk that have many more points than a your typical whitetail. JMHO
I count all the points. However, I believe it is more a geographic thing. It seems that people from the east and midwest say 10 point where more people from the west say 5 x 5. I don't know if this is accurate. This is just the way it seems to me. I think its because you westerners have more large game animals like mulies and elk that have many more points than a your typical whitetail. JMHO
01-31-2007 | 12:41 AM
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RE: Which way do you describe bucks - 10 point or 5 x 5?
If they have the same number of points on each side they are 4 pts, 5pts and such for Whitetails. Stickers, drops and flyers are mention serperately. When I first started hunting... bowhunters weren't very common. Riflehunting was big with deer drives the main method. I think most got used to seeing only the one side since the deer were running by the posters. That's why theone side desrciption. Now days bowhunting is more popular and different methods are being used during rifle. More people are going to a 5X5 or such description. Even a few go by the total points. We tell them to move back east. 
I am still stuck on the one side description for even racked bucks.
Different number of points per side I go by 5X4 or such. Since most whitetail have brows we count them here.
Out in the western part of the state, the mulies are counted without browtinesbut are mentioned if they have them...seperately.
Tim
I am still stuck on the one side description for even racked bucks.Different number of points per side I go by 5X4 or such. Since most whitetail have brows we count them here.
Out in the western part of the state, the mulies are counted without browtinesbut are mentioned if they have them...seperately.
Tim
01-31-2007 | 07:36 AM
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RE: Which way do you describe bucks - 10 point or 5 x 5?
I don't mention it....until someone asks me. HOW they ask me will determine the answer I give. I just say I shot a buck until I'm asked about size or antlers or (______). I'd really never thought about it until now, but people in these parts typically note points.....which is flawed, in my opinion (if you really want to know how big the deer was).
01-31-2007 | 07:57 AM
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RE: Which way do you describe bucks - 10 point or 5 x 5?
If it's a 5X5, I say, "ten pointer".
If it's a 6X4, I say, "ten pointer, 6 on one side and 4 on the other."
I usually describe the spread, tine length and mass as well.
If it's a 6X4, I say, "ten pointer, 6 on one side and 4 on the other."
I usually describe the spread, tine length and mass as well.
01-31-2007 | 09:10 AM
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RE: Which way do you describe bucks - 10 point or 5 x 5?
ORIGINAL: GregH
Dan, that is exactly how I describe deer.When I talk to people about the size of the deer I see, they always want as much detail as they can get. Those are the kind of people I associate with. I'll even throw in a spread, mass and tine length measurement as well.[:-]
I admit...... I'm an antler addict!![8D]
ORIGINAL: tj_cubin
if somebody wants that much detail I'll show them a picture!
now, if i were to shoot a big one, i would probably say # point with a ##" inside spread. i have never taken a buck big enough to care about the spread
ORIGINAL: _Dan
I use both. I usually describe a deer as a mainframe X with X# of stickers. Plus give the gross score.
I use both. I usually describe a deer as a mainframe X with X# of stickers. Plus give the gross score.
now, if i were to shoot a big one, i would probably say # point with a ##" inside spread. i have never taken a buck big enough to care about the spread
I admit...... I'm an antler addict!![8D]
Most of the people I talk to about my deer know exactly what I am talking about when I describe my deer. The only people I tell about the deer I shoot are serious trophy hunters.
As well am I!
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