Back to remedial abreviations:

In this context " X" means " by" , not " times" (i.e. 5 " by" 5). Hint: a 6X6 elk doesn' t really have 36 points.

In Idaho we use total points on whitetails (10 total points is a 10 pointer) and count by the side for mule deer (4 points on a side is a 4 point).

Usually on the mulies if they are nontypical with more than 4 points to a side then we add in the brow tines.
Like if you had a nontypical with 7 points on a side you would also count the eye guards and call it an 8 x 8.

On a straight typical 4 pointer we do not add in the eye guards, normally.

Good Lord! I may have started another civil war[]
I guess it' s more an east/west thing by the sounds of it. Or could it be the way we were brought up. I was told to call a 4X4 a 4 point. It always sounded small compared to the 8 point (I watched a lot of hunting on tv) the professional hunters shot. So I started calling them by both sides (sounds WAY bigger now)
As for muleys, I was told not to count brow tines in my description...talk about sounding really small! So now I call em' by sides (including brow tines) just cus I like it that way. Any way you look at it, we' re pretty lucky we can do this hunting thing anyway! God bless us all on this anniversary...here' s to good hunting in both our FREE COUNTRIES JDinAB

JRW' s post had me laughing out loud.

" Hey Joe-Bob, did you see that 36 pointer runnin' up the hill over there...."



Come on now IBM. That is not my bow making that popping sound. It is the sound of those limbs on your bow delaminating......

There you go stereotyping.....

You mean " Here in SE PA we call it soda"

Because here in NW, NC, & SW PA we call it POP[]
Heck, if you' re close enough to the NY line it even becomes.....PAAAP!

BTW, it' s still and 8 point up here![:-]

We use the rough score and 4 point or 4x5(if unmatched) to describe a deer we saw or took. As to mulies it is a 4 and if he has brows with eye guards (again using the rough score to better describe the deer).

Tit for tat, really don' t matter much I think we all know what we are talking about. I will admit an 8 sounds better that 4 but it all equals the same. I agree with SJ adding the score more accurately describes the deer. For small ones we use terms like dink, handle bars, basket, etc, again a vivid picture of what has been seen.

thank you jjt ,

we go by points here , and the measurement if it' s big enough , but we do count points , any and all we can find

In Oklahoma its called pop. We count total points, if it has 8 points its an 8 pointer etc. My dad lives in Oregon and they do the 4x4 or 4 pointer = 8 pointer etc crap.

Skeeter-If everyone had access to the caliber of deer we are fortunate to hunt in alberta and saskatchewan I don' t think they would feel the need to call a 4x4 an 8 point to make it sound bigger.

Stubblejumper-nailed the head on that one