Hello folks, I recently been seeing this nice White-tailed Deer buck with a few does. Does anyone know what the score of this buck is? I know for hunting, the bigger the deer, the bigger the score. Photos attached! Tony! [IMG_5793]

i don’t know the score, nice cattail marsh though :)

Welcome to the forum @bluejay2007 !

From what I recall, you lose points for inconsistencies between left and right antlers. So it looks like its left antler has shorter tines than the right, so that would be a point reduction. The best way to confirm a score is in hand, so unless you are able to snag both the sheds at the same time or…

Formal scoring requires quite a few measurements of beam and tines and you can’t do that from a photo.

I found this scoring calc: https://www.boone-crockett.org/scoring/bc_scoring_typwhitetail.asp

White-tailed Deer score for bucks?

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bluejay2007 January 22, 2020, 9:07pm 7

Thank you all! I am going to hunt in the area I saw it, once hunting season starts (which isn’t till Nov). But still thank you!

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