Antler Spread

Everyone I know around here goes by outside spread. The only place I have heard people talk about an inside spread is on this forum.
 
They are measured inside for actual scoring but I personally like refering to outside spread.

Donnie
 
As mentioned, in official B&C type scoring, they measure inside spread.

However, we refer to outside spread OF THE MAIN BEAM when we discuss a deer we took. After all, when we look at a deer from the front, we don't see inside spread.

txhunter58

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LAST EDITED ON Oct-17-06 AT 06:02AM (MST)[p]Almost everyone measures outside (widest point to widest point even if that point is the end of a nontypical "sticker," and then if it's close to 30, they add a generous fudge factor. People talk about "main-frame" to describe the actual main set of anterlers on a nontypical so that you can better visulize the anterler configuration.

In truth, BC uses three inside (wides point between the inside main beam left and main beam right) tip to tip, (main beam) AND the widest spread outside to outside.


I often wondered the same question. I hear guys throw spread numbers out all the time. I tried to get a staight answer a year ago and got a buch of questions like, "what difference does it make, why do you want to know, spreads not everything."

I think it would be nice to standardize it so that when a guys says "o, I shot a 31 inch" buck, we can get an idea of what that looks like. If it's a 24" main frame 4x4 with a couple nice kickers, they will have just shot themselves a "30 inch" buck. . . but what we think of is usually not a 24 incher with a couple kickers.

In any event, it's safe to go with outside spread and subtract a couple, its kind of like fishing, a nice fish is always a few inches longer than it really is. If you see a photo of the buck, that's the real measure, you can usually guess with in an inch or so, the spread on a mule deer buck. assuming you can see the ears, or there's no drastic exagerations or exesive use of super wide angle camera lenses. It gets a lot harder to estimate or guess with big non typicals.

Here's a link to the BC online scoring program.

http://www.boone-crockett.org/bgRec...=bgRecords&type=Typical+Mule+Deer+&+Blacktail
 
Just to make things easy. If the antlers are as wide as the ears! He is 32" Hold out for something in the 40" range!! One more thing. Doe's have been known to grow 2 points x 18". Don't shoot these freaks.

Rut

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I'm going on my first muley hunt and just wanted to have some sort idea for the guide as what I'd shoot. I can score whitetails well but I'm lost on muleys.

How wide are the tips of the ears on a muley?
 
On all the bucks I have measured they have usually been about 21 inches wide when in a normal position. people I have talked to say about 18 to 20, but all the ones I have measured have been wider than 20.
 

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