do you guys count your eye gaurds as a piont?

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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akw270
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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no i gaurd pointage for me :>/
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supersider34
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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BOHNTR
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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waynedevore
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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a_bow_nut
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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In the east I count the eyeguards, in the west it's 4x4 plus eyeguards
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ABert
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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Like the Teaxs Story. It seems to be that's why they call it eastern and western count
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utbowhunter23
I don't see how/why you would count the eye guards. If you do that then alot of people would be shooting 4X4's
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AGCHAWK
Funny, I never really gave it a lot of thought until I read this post but I count the eye guards as points when talkin' about White-tails but do not count the eye guards when it comes to Mulies. Can't say that I know why...have just done so for as long as I can remember. Never hunted on the east coast and none of my family is from there so I certainly didn't pick it up there. Hhmmm.......
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hound_hunter
Never even gave it thought til now. I guess all those eastern guys count 'em automatically, I never really even thought of countin 'em til now (not that im gonna start, just never thought that people do that - til I started thinkin and remembered about those crazy eastern folks).

IMO: Although scorable and all, their not really counted as a real point to me. Just like Bowedark, When i'm huntin here, it's a 4X4 w/ eyeguards.
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Wapiti
I count the eye guards as points on Whitetails but do not count the eye guards when it comes to Mulies. ??? ??? ???
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When describing the bucs I've taken or seen I won't count 'em
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Two years ago NM went to a draw system for deer for the first time. They also instituted a new "3 points on one side" rule. This includes the eye guard if you can hang a ring on it. I have lived in NM all my life and a typical muley is a 4x4, but this new rule has people counting eye guards since the NMGF is. Now a coversation about a good buck is much longer since you have to clarify.
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what part of NM I grew up there?
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Tularosa. Where did you gro up?
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