First Archery Buck

jrccarter · Oct 18, 2003

Hopefully this picture will work. This was my first archery buck and I wanted to see if anyone had a guess on a spread and a score. I know it's not the biggest one you have seen but I think it is a pretty nice first buck. Does the mass add any to the score? It's a 4x4 with small eye guards. Any guesses would be awesome.

BOHNTR · Oct 18, 2003

jrccarter:

First off, welcome to MonsterMuleys and congratulations on your first archery mule deer. It's hard to tell from the angle of this picture, but I'd have to say he's probably a 20" buck that should score somewhere in the 140" range. A very respectable buck with your bow. Again, congratulations. Is there a story that goes along with your buck?

BOHNTR )))--------------->

jrccarter · Oct 18, 2003

There is a story! I spotted him while riding my 4 wheeler and so I stopped to take a better look. After closing the gap a little I put my range finder on him and he was 55 yards. i had practiced a lot at that range so I felt pretty comfortable. I shot and hit him solid he ran a little way and dropped. The reason I asked about the score was because I have had a couple people measure and score it. (They were not Professionals) I had one come in at 22" and another person put the spread at just under 24" Neither one of the scored it. I know there are people here that are probably more accurate scoring by a picture than the two people that measured mine.

NonTypical23 · Oct 19, 2003

LAST EDITED ON Oct-19-03 AT 07:39PM (MST)[p]Congrats on your first archery buck! I just started archery hunting this year and went on my first deer hunt- and it is a truly exciting sport! Hopefully thats the first of many more. And I have no idea of what he scores....