So he actually unofficially scores 173 5/8. Throwing out net score guesses is like throwing out an inside spread guess when someone asked to guess the width of their buck. ?
Lol don't get into that argument with the boys up in Canada, they will fight you every time on a width of a deer argument. They only care about the inside spread measurement. Lol
But I do have to add, why do we care what the spread of the beams are?
Why give it a spread credit at all?
Why limit that spread credit to the length of the longer beam?
Hell if your gonna give it a spread credit Why not make it the widest part of the frame on a typical and the widest overall on a non-typical?
If width has some value in what truly makes a big deer, and I'd venture a guess that 99% of people would agree. Take an example you got two bucks both scoring 190 inches with similar mass, and similar fork depth and height but one is 24" wide outside and one is 30" wide outside the wider buck is what 90% of guys will shoot.
Just an observation and kind of a pet peeve of mine about the scoring system.
Yes. It’s supplemental data….much like tip to tip spread, etc.
It’s really no big deal….but if referring to or using the B&C system, why not use the real (final) score?
Like I said, I appreciate the system but do not feel the final score give full credit to the size of a deer. I prefer the gross score as that is what the deer actually grew. I don't care if a buck is symmetrical which is what the initial scoring system wanted to take into account. But the system works for getting what I (and a whole lot of others) concider to be the true score of the deer.
I never measure the tip to tip spread because that literally means nothing, no idea why it's even on a score sheet, supplemental to what? At least a gross score has some bearing to how big an animal really is.
I get that you are an "offical" scorer and from what I can tell are fairly well connected with the higher-ups in the pope and young organization, hell you may be a higher-up lol, and you feel the need to defend the system. But the truth is most average guys do not care what the net score of an animal is.