Estimated score?

I would put him around 110"

1.5" g1 x2
10" g2 x2
6" g3 x2
3" g4
17" Beams x2
25" total mass
15" spread
score of 109"
 
He'll score 2 backstraps and 2 tenderloins if you shoot well. His horns you can't eat, but they look like maybe 120ish.
 
That buck would get shot by 90% of all hunters if given the opportunity day 1 of season. People say they want a 150+ buck until they have a pretty deer in their scope. He is a pretty buck with both eye guards. Not many are passing that buck.

Also not all mule deer bucks have both eye guards. My friend killed a 170 class buck that had a single 7/8" eye guard. He wanted his next one to have both eye guards. His next deer was a 150 class buck with two 2" eye guards

170 class
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150 class
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He is "We shoot bucks like that where I come from" inches. 4 point with brow tines. Unless one has had opportunity to take quite a few large mule deer, don't see why one would pass it unless you are in a legitimate trophy unit/season.
 
I can't believe how many guys put this buck in any sort of shooter category. Eye guards...who cares the buck is a dink and not pretty by any measure. And no I don't kill a lot of big Mule Deer. Every buck I've killed has ben between 135-170"...
 
I can't believe how many guys put this buck in any sort of shooter category. Eye guards...who cares the buck is a dink and not pretty by any measure. And no I don't kill a lot of big Mule Deer. Every buck I've killed has ben between 135-170"...
nah, shoot what you want. Lots of guys have a hell of a hunt every year and never get caught up in scores and inches. Go kill a buck, spend time in the woods with friends and family, and bring home some meat. IMO that’s what it’s all about!

I will say I can’t believe how many guys are overestimating this thing by 30-40”!
 
That is perfectly good first buck for a youth, NR youth. Mule deer of any height look huge to whitetail hunters. Dead to the "if it's brown" crews.

It may be small but it is still a pretty buck.
 
That buck would get shot by 90% of all hunters if given the opportunity day 1 of season. People say they want a 150+ buck until they have a pretty deer in their scope. He is a pretty buck with both eye guards. Not many are passing that buck.

Also not all mule deer bucks have both eye guards. My friend killed a 170 class buck that had a single 7/8" eye guard. He wanted his next one to have both eye guards. His next deer was a 150 class buck with two 2" eye guards

170 class
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150 class
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Your buddy has done well for himself. Beautiful big buck. Good frame on the smaller buck.

This is a 160 on the button. 300#.
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