How Wide Do You Think He is?
 

If the ear tip to ear tip spread is 15 inches, I gotta think this guy is pretty wide. This picture is 8 days old. He's actually still adding tine length and working on G4s on each side now. :)

He is pretty spread out, hard for me to guess, the camera is offset to his left so the tips on the left can appear to stick out a few inches further then the tip of the ear then they really are. Something about his face also seems off to me, kinda narrow with a look a few turkeys have giving me.

If his ears are 15 he is about 22 inches wide (I used Photoshop)

I just went and measured 4 of my deer heads though and they all measured between 17-18 inches. I assume they were probably all over 18 alive.

22" was also my guess even though his right ear tip is gone!

To me, it looks like his spread goes at least 6 inches past his ears on both sides.

Most say that a whitetail up in the northern part of the country like we're talking about will have 16"-18" from ear tip to ear tip. Also, when they are in velvet they always look a lot bigger than they will turn out to be when they shed, Are we talking outside or inside spread since that also makes a big difference? I always talk inside spread and looking more at him this time he might go 24" when he sheds. He's a shooter in my book unless he is up in the Canadian Provinces where a lot of people would probably say to let him grow another year!

I'm talking about outside. I will start talking about inside if I have him on my game pole and am scoring him. Although, score won't mean too much too me. There are two benchmark numbers when talking about score. 125 and 170. Since I tore my rotator cuff a few years ago, I got a crossbow. So the 125 benchmark means nothing now. And I'm sure he will be far below 170. :D I'm thinking he'll probably net in the 140s somewhere.

If his ears are 15 its about 3.5-3.75 from the tip of his ear to the outside of his antlers. Plus his antlers being closer to the camera than his ears makes them look wider than his ears. His head is also turned a little left making his left side look wider.

Even if the black line is 18" the red lines are not 6"

If the ears(black line) are 18" then the red lines are about 4.5 which would make him 18"+4.5"+4.5" = 27"

if his ears are 15 the red lines are 3.75.... 15+3.75+3.75 = 22.5"


If the red line on his right side is 6" then the black line which is exactly 4 times longer is 24 inches

I see what you mean. For perspective, here's one where his rack is further away than his head. :D

either way he looks awesome

Yep, he's a dandy and something sure took a chunk out of that right ear. I've seen them cut up, but I cant remember seeing one with a chunk out like that. He must have really locked up with another good buck in the area and had that happen in a pretty good fight.

Or he got caught in one of those stupid wire antler catchers people who collect drops put out in areas where they know there are big buck that survived the season to speed the process and try to get them both at the same place.

He's had that chunk missing from his ear since he was 2.5 years old. We've gotten pics of him for three years now. I haven't seen anyone using one of those contraptions around there. I don't think the work as advertised anyway. If the antler is not ready to fall off that minute, I don't think it's coming off at all.

he won't break 20" probably closer to 18
RR

Wide enough that I'd take him, that's for certain.

RR. - 18 inches? Really?

I'm pretty sure he's wider than that.

I should have specified. He is not a coues deer or a Florida Key deer. He's a regular whitetail. :)

Here in SoCal the rule is +/- 17 " to the outside of his ears.

It's a picture - hard to tell, exactly....................

How about this - he's a "shooter" !!!

But not wide enough to fit all the spam smart phone posts that littered this board overnight. :D

20 inch + inside, easy Barnes x, the broke off ear tip included.

Will be pulling a couple cameras on Sunday. Hoping I have some updated pictures of him.