re: What would be your guess on scoring this deer?

137-140. Perfect rack.

That's what I was thinking. If it were my deer, I would have it redone.

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140ish. score it yourself. not hard at all. i do all of mine.

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I meant re-caped. get the mount redone

140+. Good mass, width, and tine length and it's a 10pt.

The deer being a ten point adds about 6 inches to it, not that big a deal

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I meant re-caped. get the mount redone

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That's exactly what I want to do to it. I think it needs to be redone. You can tell the current mount is old school. The neck on it is real skinny and could look a lot better. My grandfather has been dead for about 6 years now and I would like to keep it if my uncle or no one else wants it just so I could have something that meant a lot to him. There is a storage room in the back yard that is full of plaque mounts. I've gotten a couple to hang up in my office at work. One of our customers builds lamps out of antler sheds and I want to take some of them to him and get him to make a couple lamps for me.


The one on the right is my first buck when I was 16. The middle and left one are the ones I got from the storage room.








This is one of the lamps the guy has made. I like it a lot and def would want some of my grandfathers antlers made into one.

120's. Nice deer, but the ears are positioned in a way that makes the rack look wider. Decent mass. 130's tops.

Thanks man. I hope to get it scored sometime soon. I wish my grandfather would have had it done when he was alive.

And I have a 133 inch ten that doesn't have the mass this one appears to have, or the tine length at each position. Mine was 19.5 wide and nearly 20 ish on each main beam. I could be wrong just guessing at a picture, but this one appear to dwarf my 133.

The problem is that people score deer in a thousand different ways. I have a deer on the wall that has scored anywhere from 155 to 170. It's not an exact science and to be frank it's a matter of fricking opinion. I, personally, hate when someone looks at a deer and throws a "score" on him. THey're hunting for the wrong reasons. If you're shooting them based on a score, you're just a fricking idiot.

Now this ole boy wanted a guestimate on what his paw paws deer would score. I'm guessing his paw paw came from the same era that my paw paw came from and that man wouldn't give two fricks, but we all answered him. And if that fricking beautiful animal don't land firmly in the 140's I will kiss your rebel arse.