Scoring a Buck Rack

Before hand I want everyone to know “I’m not an official scorer. I’m not in Measurer’s of Minnesota. Nor do I claim to have all the knowledge necessary to be an official scorer.”. However, I have been asked to join (MofMN) because I have spent time w/ some people who are and I can give a pretty accurate ” measurement.

With that said, it seems a lot of IDOer’s want to know what the buck on their trail camera scores. Two things come to mind when people ask what a buck scores? 1. Is the rack being scored as Pope & Young or Boone & Crockett? 2. Should the rack be scored/entered as Typical or Non-typical? As I stated before, I don’t have all the answers but I want to help/inform some of you (for those who don’t know) of a couple of things I learned and found interesting about scoring a rack before, during, and after the process.

First, there is only up to (4) circumference measurements per main beam. Before I personally had a rack measured, I thought if the rack was a basic 6 x 6 (for example) that there was a 5th circumference measurement between the G-4 and G-5 that counted toward the score. Wrong, any circ after the 4th is not considered a measurement for the P&Y scoring system

Second. Any point/tine that comes off the main beam is considered a point (ie: G-1, G-2). If the point/tine has a split (G-2 for example) the split that comes off the G-2 does “not” count toward the total score because it doesn’t start off the main beam. Meaning the split doesn’t count toward Gross Score.

Finally. I was told if you have a rack with more then 12-14″ of deductions, the hunter should consider scoring the rack in the “Non-typical” category because it may have a higher Net score for the books.

I thought the above was interesting because a buck might score 167 5/8″ and have (2) splits on the G-2’s for another 6″ of antler. However, the 6″ of split antler does not get added to the Gross score making it 173 5/8″ but is rather deducted from the Gross score to come up with Net score. So, if i have a buck with a Gross Score of 167 5/8″ w/ 14 0/8″ of deductions (side to side differences) the Net typical score would be 153 5/8″ or the Net Non-typical score would be somewhere between the 2 scores but not higher then the initial Gross Score. I hope that makes sense.

I’m sure there are other things that people can add to this to help give us all an advise and idea’s of how a rack gets measured. Below is a link to see the official measurement page from Pope & Young.

http://www.pope-young.org/pdfs/ScoreSheets/wtc_typical_r6-2008.pdf

Good Info

THat was extremely interesting. thanks for sharing. i personaly have yet to shoot a buck “worth” scoring. i hope this is the year that it all changes. i learned more tonight then i have in a month probably in college but if its not to hard what is the differnce between the B&C Vs. The pope&young scoring system??

I want to clarify something to the part about deductions. i meant to say that if the rack being scored has 12-14″ of deductions due to “abnormal points” such as splits, stickers, and drop tines then it should be considered for entering as a Non-typical. Because the side to side differences cannot be added to the Net Typical score, only the abnormal points can be added.

All Outdoorsman-

as for the difference between P&Y and B&C? They are just 2 different record keeping books w/ the same system for scoring. Both have a Gross score and deduct for irregularities to come up w/ a final Net score. P&Y is bow only and requires a minimum Net score of 125″ for a whitetail and B&C is for bow or gun and requires a minimum Net score of 170″ for whitetail. So, in other words…. if you shoot a Booner the whole world will know about it.

Hope that helped

Ok well that cleared it all up for me. i always thought that B&C was 150 minnimum but i learned somthing new again. thanks for sharing that infomation with us

this is how I score my bucks, kinda cool I think!! Great topic gobbler!! http://www.boone-crockett.org/bgrecords/bc_scoring_typwhitetail.asp?area=bgrecords&type=Typical+Whitetail+Deer