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Scoring your Typical White Tail Deer

Scoring your Typical White Tail Deer. Fish & Wildlife. Boone & Crockett. Founded in 1887 by Teddy Roosevelt Targeted sportsmen concerned with improving the environment “Fair Chase” document laid foundation for today’s modern conservation laws Focuses on firearms hunting. Pope & Young.

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Scoring your Typical White Tail Deer

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  1. Scoring your Typical White Tail Deer Fish & Wildlife

  2. Boone & Crockett • Founded in 1887 by Teddy Roosevelt • Targeted sportsmen concerned with improving the environment • “Fair Chase” document laid foundation for today’s modern conservation laws • Focuses on firearms hunting

  3. Pope & Young • Founded in 1961 and modeled after Boone & Crockett Club • Dedicated to conservation of wildlife • Named after Dr. Saxton Pope & Arthur Young • Focuses on the challenges and rewards of bow hunting

  4. What is Fair Chase? • Helpless in a trap, deep snow or water, or on ice. • From any power vehicle or power boat. • By "jacklighting" or shining at night. • By the use of any tranquilizers or poisons. • While inside escape-proof fenced enclosures

  5. Fair Chase Cont’d 6. By the use of any power vehicles or power boats for herding or driving animals 7. By the use of electronic devices for attracting, locating, or pursuing game 8. Any other condition considered by the Board of Directors as unacceptable

  6. Scoring the rack • Pope & Young and Boone & Crockett use the same scoring system • Scored on the basis of size and symmetry • Only difference in the scoring systems is the method used to harvest the deer • Boone & Crockett can be scored online http://www.boone-crockett.org/index.asp • Pope & Young use worksheets

  7. World Record Boone & Crockett Typical • 213 5/8 • Canada • 1993

  8. World Record Boone & Crockett Non-Typical • 333 7/8 • St. Louis County, MO • 1981

  9. World Record Pope & Young Typical • 204 4/8 • Peoria County, IL • 1965

  10. World Record Pope & Young Non-Typical • 294 0/8 • Green County, OH • 2000

  11. Tips for Scoring • Before it can be officially scored it must air dry for 60 days • Measurements are taken using ¼” steel tape measure • All measurements taken to the nearest 1/8”

  12. Basic Terminology G5 • Main Beam: Provides the base for the antlers • The base of the antler is referred to as the “burr” • The points are numbered and called “G1, G2, etc.” Main Beam Burr

  13. Number of Points • Must be at least 1 inch long and 1 inch from base to tip • The point can’t be wider than the height • Beam tips are counted as a point, but not measured

  14. Tip to Tip • Measured from main beam to main beam • Greatest Spread • Measured at greatest width between outside main beams • Spread Credit • Inside width between main beams • Cannot exceed longest main beam

  15. Abnormal points that don’t originate in a typical place • Another point • Bottom or side of main beam • Main Beam • Measure tip to tip through the center of beam

  16. Normal Points • Measured from base to tip • Measured in center of point • Use outer curve of the point

  17. Circumference • Circumference is taken at the smallest place between the locations

  18. Review • Racks are scored on the basis of size and symmetry • Everything is measured to the nearest 1/8th of an inch • Measure the outside, always use the middle of the antler • Good luck and have fun!

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