Is it a 10 point, 5 point, 5x5, 4 point with eye guards, or a 4x4?

[Laramie]

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The reason you have to notch sex is because some does will grow antlers (I shot one myself in the late 90s) and some bucks will not have antlers. Biologists want to know the sex of animal harvested.

 

[svivian]

 

[scwilso35]

What part of WV? Preston Co here. We count every point for whitetail, just feels off not counting browtines/eye guards on mule deer.

I've jumped around a bit. Grew up in Hampshire County, then moved to Monongalia County while attending WVU. Work moved me to Nicholas County for a couple years. Now I'm living in Raleigh County. I have a buddy that lives up near you in Reedsville.

 

[BeastOfTheTrees]

Had an ol’ Louisiana southern states/kansas whitetail slayer tell me that if you can hang a ring on it, it’s a point. I like that logic lol.

From Northwestern PA, lived in Colorado a couple years as well as Kansas. A 10 point buck is exactly what it sounds like. Out west it’s whatever the locals call it. I tend to add the term basket rack to describe the fact that I shot a young buck. We call a young 4 point, (2 on each side, 2x2) a young forky. Even a 6 point, (3x3) has its own designation here. A good old Pennsylvania 6. Meaning a young buck at the end of the season you decided to drop.

This is just from around the ANF though, can’t speak on out east or south.

 

[sojourner]

Northern California- blacktail. 3x3, 4x4, 2x3 etc. and then designate “with eye guards” or “with one eye guard” if applicable.

 

[Grundy53]

4 point or 4 point with eye guards. 3x4 if non symmetrical. SW Washington.

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