What score is considered a trophy buck?
Official Scoring To make the Boone and Crockett Club’s all-time records book, a typical whitetail will need a final score totaling 170 or more inches — 195 inches for non-typical. For the club’s three-year awards book, the minimum entry score is 160 typical — 185 non-typical.
How big is a 180 score Buck?
than the ear measurement of 7-8 inches, you can quickly gather a rough sum of the tine measurements. This buck’s tines can roughly be summed to roughly 18 inches.
What is considered a trophy whitetail buck?
5.5- to 6.5-Year-Olds—This is a mature whitetail in its prime. They are at the height of their weight, antler size, strength, and cunning. These are animals that know how to survive and are extremely challenging to hunt. Without a doubt, these are trophy whitetail deer.
What is the highest point deer ever shot?
At the 22nd Big Game Awards Program in Dallas, Texas, the Boone and Crockett Club Judges’ Panel declared Hanson’s buck the new world’s record typical whitetail with a final score of 213-5/8 points.
Should spike bucks be culled?
Should spike bucks be culled? It depends, but in most situations with white-tailed deer, the answer is no. The vast majority (usually greater than 95 percent) of spike bucks are yearlings (1-year-old deer) and nearly all yearling spikes grow substantially larger antlers later in life.
What’s the correct way to score a whitetail?
Most hunters ‘score’ their whitetail’s rack in a very simple way: by simply counting the number of points on the antlers on either side. So, if you bag a buck with five points on each antler, the typical weigh to ‘score’ that buck would be to call it a 5×5. Conversely, a buck with one point on one another but two on the other would be called 1×2.
What’s the minimum antler score for a trophy whitetail deer?
We are all Trophy hunters at heart and all have our qualifications of what a trophy whitetail is. To serious trophy hunters it has to be a record book buck. To qualify for the Boone and Crockett record book, it has to score 170 inches of antler. Minimum score for the Pope and Young record book is 130 inches of antler.
Which is the longest G measurement on a whitetail deer?
On a typical whitetail buck, the G1 will be the brow tine, the G2 (typically the longest G measurement) will be the next tine away from the skull, the G3 will be the next tine, etc. The last antler point before the main beam tip is the last G measurement you will record.
When is the best time to score a deer?
If you score the deer right after you shoot it, this is considered a “green scoring” because your score will be higher than scoring the antlers after they’ve dried out. Only scores that have been taken after the antlers have dried out can be recognized as official scores for each of the clubs.