do you guys count your eye gaurds as a piont?

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do you guys count your eye gaurds as a piont?

Post by wtttaxidermy » Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:30 pm

hey I have always counted eyegards as apoint if they are over an inch what do you guys do and name the state your in. Im mostly concerned about mulies JimW
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eye gaurds.

Post by akw270 » Sat Mar 25, 2006 5:01 pm

I don't count them. I just count the forks, if I can hang a ring on a point or cheater coming off, then I'll count that as well.

It seems that back east/whitetail deer they always count the eye guards in there point total. Plus they add both sides together. A 4 point in my mind, would be a 10 point to them.

Thats at least my method. Im in Utah.

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Post by dead shot » Sat Mar 25, 2006 6:19 pm

no i gaurd pointage for me :>/

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Post by supersider34 » Sat Mar 25, 2006 6:36 pm

I always say a 4x4 with eyeguards. I just add the eyeguards.
Idaho here.
Like the last 5 yrs bucks are:
4x4 w/eyeguards
5x7 w/eyeguards
3x4 w/eyeguards
7x9 w/eyeguards
5x5 w/eyeguards

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Post by BOHNTR » Sun Mar 26, 2006 8:58 am

As a measurer I seem to always include the eyeguards, as they are a scoreable point. However, when describing a buck that measures as a 5x5, I will usually say it's a typical 4-point with eye-guards.

Now if you're talking to buds on the east coast, I simply expalin to them it's a 5x5 and they understand fully.....and relpy, "Oh it's a 10 point!" ](*,)
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Post by waynedevore » Mon Mar 27, 2006 7:25 am

Im MN we count every point on our white tails and include both antlers.

I do more western deer hunting then I do here at home. I don't include brow points on mule deer. Folks back here have a hard time with a 4 pt muley. Its like "oh" you shot a fork horn.
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Post by a_bow_nut » Mon Mar 27, 2006 1:28 pm

I have never counted the eyeguards on the animals that I've harvested over the years. When I was growing up they were always called eyeguards not points.
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Post by Bowedark » Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:04 pm

In the east I count the eyeguards, in the west it's 4x4 plus eyeguards

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Post by ABert » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:57 pm

I don't count them when talking about a 4X4 but they do count when it comes to measuring an animal. I'm from Colorado and this is the way most folks I hunt with and around count. I'll never forget the first time I went to Texas and someone had told me they shot an 8 point the year before. I was only 13 at the time and started to believe everything really is bigger in Texas, until I found out they were counting both sides.
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Post by Bowedark » Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:04 pm

Like the Teaxs Story. It seems to be that's why they call it eastern and western count

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