RE: 4x4 or 8pt
 

Deer would be an 8 point, elk would be a 4x4. At least where I live. If you said you killed a 4 point where I live people would think you killed a really young deer.

I think it depends on where you live as well, I think out west they break it up by side.

Paul

RE: 4x4 or 8pt
 

I wouldn't say I killed a "4" point...I'd call it a 4x4....just add.....difficult as it may be;)

RE: 4x4 or 8pt
 

I thought that's why they counted points "side by side", to reduce the chances that they'd have to use their toes!:D

RE: 4x4 or 8pt
 

Hay now! So whut if I dident gradyouate aith grayed:D

RE: 4x4 or 8pt
 

LOL. Hey now, you'uns cain't hep it that them danged gummint schools ain't learnin you right!

RE: 4x4 or 8pt
 

Thats funny right there:D Git R Done!
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RE: 4x4 or 8pt
 

B&C counts points per side, not total(anything measuring 1" is deemed a tine/point/G).

Here we call em' 4x's. If he has junk (non-typicaltines/growth) that measures min. 1" will say he is a 4x4 with kickers(are growthoff tines)or sticker's(are growth off main beams).

RE: 4x4 or 8pt
 

Well if you used that sort of terminology where I live people would look at you like you like you had a mental problem or something. That jus isn't the way we describe deer here. They might think you shot an elk or something. I'm sure they would get what you were saying, but they would look at you funny I'm sure.

Sort of like saying soda or coke for a carbonated beverage. We call it pop here. I got a lot of weird looks when I moved back from california. I still call it soda most of the time. And when I moved to cali they didn't even know what I meant when I asked for a pop. They would just stare at you for a minute until it sunk in. And I had a roomate from the south when I was in the military and everything was a coke, even if he meant pepsi or rootbear.

People just speak differently in different parts of the nation is all. There really isn't a right or wrong, just different.

Paul

RE: 4x4 or 8pt
 

Heres how I do it. In Whitetail=10points converts toMule deer 5x5 which converts to elk as 5x5 of course this depends on how many points on each side of course. Whitetail is the only thing i use the point system on and I live in WI. We dont call a 10 point buck here a 5x5 or 6x4 or what ever its just points.

RE: 4x4 or 8pt
 

no one's right or wrong. it's just a southern and western thang.south and some of texas it's an 8 pt. northern western area it's 4x4 , same difference.

a darn good deer in my book. depends on where you come from.