Here is the official tape right here, yes its a 1/4" wide tape...

Do you have the steel cable as well?

It works real nice for the main beam measurements..... Much better than the 1/4" tape.

Yep, they work very well! Been looking for it all day and can't find it! I'm good at hiding things from myself sometimes!

All this coming from the guy that submitted an odd score for a deer he shot years ago!![8D] Sorry bud, somebody had to jab you!!

On a side note...if you don't have either tape at home, we will sometimes substitute a string and then measure it out on a regular tape.

Bicycle brake cable works well also.

Yep....got a few of them. I use an aligator clip to mark the spot on the cable that needs to be measured.

The only thing odd about it was my measurement was1 inchon the light side of the official measurement.

Maybe I should have posted this back then so those who were uneducated with the scoring process wouldn't have had any questions.

We???? Come on..... When was the last time you shot a whitetail..... With antlers [8D]You must be talking about road kill or sheds

Sorry if I missed this somewhere in these 5 pages but how would you measure h3 and h4 for a 6 pointer? I'm guessing you take thesection of the main beam between h2 and the end of the main beam then make 2 mass measurements equally spaced apart in that run?

While were at it, just for sh**s and giggles, how would you make mass measurements for a 4 and a spike as you mentioned in PM?

btw- thanks again for the PM help. I did get 123 as well after you pinpointed my mistake. Oh, I was so giddy or "trigger happy" with this new found info that I measured my other buck too.

Ona 6 point you would use the H3 measurement as your h4 measurement as well.....May sound odd, but is the correct way to do it...

I have never looked into this... If I had to GUESS I would think you would go half way between the burr and the end of the main beam and use that circumference as H1-H4. Again this is only a guess.

No problem. Glad to have helped. [8D]

I always thought that you measured equal distances for the length of a spike.

For a 6 pointer you would measure the length of the beam from the center line of the g-2 to the end of the main beam and mark equal distances from the center line of the g-2 towards the tip for the h-3and that distance again towards the tip fir the h-4.

example: center of g-2 to the tip = 6"
h-3 taken 2" from the center of the g-2
h-4 taken 2" from the h-3

That way your h-3 and h-4 would be taken evenly along that 6". (2+2+2=6)

I know for 8 pointers the h-4 is taken at half way between the center line of the g-3 and the tip of the main beam.

Maybe I'm wrong but I'll ask when I get mine scored in a couple of weeks.