I would say 16-17 inches... 18 tops... You can see he has short main beams, it takes impressive main beams to achieve a 25+ inch inside spread

I say it is the angle of the ear and the angle of the photo compounding making it appear larger than it is.....
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REALLY wide

Don't forget to factor in the earth's rotation You're killing me

im guessing 23-26 inches.. He's a dandy i know if he came past my stand he'd get shot at!

In that 25" range! Cool looking.

Im guessing from that most younger deer rarely exceed 18 to 20. let him grow up and add some mass and tine length will be really nice in 2 to 3 years.

Know what? I wanna retract my answer too and for the record,I think you're waaay wrong about 4ft wide. See,if you look at how the furthest reach of his rack is perfectly lined up with his rear leg, he's got a whole lot of width. Let me explain: Consider that a deer's body is close to 4 feetlong already. From the shoulder to beginning of the rear hock has got to be 3 feet. Take that times 2 equals 6 feet plus the distance between the bases which is probably 4-5 inches equals a spread that's closing in on 7 feet. Hey, just do the math.

I see what your saying, but you have forgotten to take into account that that deer is only probably 5 1/2-6 years old. When a deer is still in it's nymphyl stages it's only about 2/3 the size of an adult. So when we take that into account we can conclude that the deer's body is at most 3 feet long nose to tail, which when we fuigure up the math, and calculated the earth's rotation like was previously mentioned, we get exactly 4 feet 1 and 3/8 inches. Still an impressive spread by any account, but with another 5-6 years like I said earlier, he will be a monster.

He is wide, don't know how wide, hard to tell if his ear is all the way out or turned in some.

He'll make 20, that's for sure... Hard to say exactly since it's such a close pic.

Probably mid 20s... Great deer!