winner Score Contest 6 (2012)

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monarchtaxidermy

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LAST EDITED ON Feb-19-12 AT 08:25PM (MST)[p]sorry guys I screwed this up. My boy ripped the score sheet and I lost some numbers. I added up what he had written and it is wrong I will have russ re-add the scores and post up the winner tomorrow. I apologize, Shiz happens when you have a little one drawing on my pad where the scores had been added. I Will add score contest 7 tonight.
Thanks Curtis
 
It doesn't help me, because my guess was low, but wouldn't that buck have 4 mass measurements on his right side? Wouldn't the m1 be doubled? Just curious.
 
I just guessed that the left side mass measurement above the browtine would be tripled assuming that you always get four measurements no matter the antler configuration but I could be wrong there, but that should probably be looked into further now. However yep you definately get four measurements on a two point without a browtine.
 
Looks like my 93 3/8 is lookin a little better now!





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LAST EDITED ON Feb-19-12 AT 09:48PM (MST)[p]I am a high school teacher so I know all about that topgun. LOL. I knew my gross was missing and thats the only thing I pondered when adding up the score tonight. What can I say; I am a well educated dumb person. Anyway hope you guys forgive me, I actually feel quite stupid because I am a perfectionist. I blamed it on my wife and now she is giving me the cold shoulder when I tried to get a little lovin tonight. I will get it fixed tomorrow. At least I get to wath sportscenter tonight.
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I'm not sure if you'd get four mass measurements on the spike side with the eyeguard. I know you'd get the h1 below the eyeguard, then i would figure halfway up the beam for the h2, but would you get two more of the h2 measurements?
 
No!

You're not gettin 4 Mass measurements on the Spike side!




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if were going by the B&C method you get 4 mass mesurements on the spike side.AT least thats how I read into it. Here is what B&C says.

"Circumferences are taken at the narrowest place as detailed in Figure C for each measurement. If the brow point is missing, take H-1 and H-2 at the smallest place between the burr and the G-2 point. If the G-3 point is missing, take H-3 halfway between the base and the tip of the G-2 point. If G-4 is missing, take H-4 halfway between the G-2 point and the tip of the main beam."
 
I was having trouble figuring it out as well. I scored the spike side as a main beam and a G1. The rules posted on the B&C site don't tell you what to do if the G2 is missing. I took a mass measurement below the G1 and used the mass measurement 1/2 way up the spike twice. On a typical buck you measure the main beam 3 times and the G2 once. So I used 3 on that side. I have no idea if that is correct though. It just doesn't seem like you should get credit for mass that doesn't exist.
 
If there is no point to stop your hand as you slide it up, there is no mass mesurement.
 
As the other MM members have stated above, there are four mass measurements per side irregardless of how many points the buck has (or doesn't have) per side. Bucks missing points are penalized because the mass measurement then gets taken at the halfway point of the tine instead of below the fork where the circumference is in almost all cases much bigger.

The scoring instructions don't tell you how to score a spike most likely because there aren't any with this horn configuration that would ever be "officially" scored for the book given the fact that the "net" score is the only score that counts toward the minimum score required for entry.

I used the same mass measurement for H2, H3, & H4 which I took at the halfway point between the G1 and the end of the tine on the spike side. Not sure if that is the right way to do it but it made sense at the time!

Hopefully we will all learn something from this buck and the scorer will explain the right way to take the mass measurements on the spike side.

Horniac
 

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