he doesn't care about score because he's only been hunting a couple of years. it could have been a 65" goat and he would have been pumped. The buck just happened to hit the water hole he was on. it was his first antelope hunt ever and he drew it with 2 or 3 points. yeah they do shrink in the 60 day drying period but he is a no doubt giant goat. But there really are people out there that don't care what an animal scores, even if it is a Giant. I vowed long ago that i'll never enter an animal into the book even if it's a giant because I hunt for me and me alone and honestly don't care how high he is in the book. I firmly believe that P&Y as well as B&C have hurt hunting and helped make it all about inches. it's good to know how to field judge and score so you know what you are looking at, but it should never be the motivating factor in my opinion.
Rough score only matters to put an animal in perspective so people can tell how big it actually is. Official score only matters to rich people and people who hunt for the wrong reasons. It's not hard to score an animals correctly, if you have a brain in your head, and have the appropriate score assigned to them. Even with official scoring there is cheating and fudging the numbers. I worked for an Arizona taxidermist that would deep freeze the big antelope for guys that wanted them officially scored. He would freeze dry them basically and then the "official scorer" would show up and measure it and put it in the book like all was good.