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Bushmaster Super Member
Joined: Jun 12, 2005 Posts: 11390 Location: Ava, Missouri
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Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 9:28 am Post subject: Re: How do you count the rack points on deer where you live? |
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So did we in the West (Ore, Wa and Cal) It was called a forked horn. A spike was not hunted or shot.
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glockman55 Super Member
Joined: Dec 12, 2005 Posts: 831 Location: Michigan
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Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 9:31 am Post subject: Re: How do you count the rack points on deer where you live? |
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skb2706 wrote:
I grew up counting only one side and the browtines if they exceed one inch...thats the way the DOW counts them too.
We don't count both sides...they only do that in places with little deer.
Define little Deer.
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Rengerizit Rookie Member
Joined: Jan 04, 2007 Posts: 15 Location: Oregon
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Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 9:34 am Post subject: Re: How do you count the rack points on deer where you live? |
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If they have a fork on both sides we in Oregon call it a forky if it has a fork on one side and a spike on the other we still call it a forky. If one side has 3 points and the other has 4 we call it a 3x4.
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SwampFox Super Member
Joined: Jul 15, 2005 Posts: 1040 Location: Destin, Florida
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Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 11:43 am Post subject: Re: How do you count the rack points on deer where you live? |
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In the SE mostly and particularly FL we count everything and both sides....
I think we have little deer in NW Florida; they resemble a good-sized German Shepard with long legs. Normal deer is right at 90-100 lbs. A big deer is 125 lbs. A normal doe will run 90lbs or less. The rack on a buck can and often does look like a nest for a soccer ball, with little or no mass at the base.
This goes with the age-old debate about what it takes to kill a deer. In these parts anything that will kill a coyote will kill one of our deer.
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skb2706 Member
Joined: Apr 10, 2006 Posts: 269
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:44 am Post subject: Re: How do you count the rack points on deer where you live? |
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glockman55 wrote: |
skb2706 wrote:
I grew up counting only one side and the browtines if they exceed one inch...thats the way the DOW counts them too.
We don't count both sides...they only do that in places with little deer.
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Decent timber mule deer buck will go well over 300 lbs standing....I guess anything less is a "little deer".
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Grant Super Member
Joined: Aug 28, 2006 Posts: 325 Location: Grande Prairie, Alberta
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glockman55 Super Member
Joined: Dec 12, 2005 Posts: 831 Location: Michigan
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:54 am Post subject: Re: How do you count the rack points on deer where you live? |
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And a mature nothern Whitetail buck will be close to that. Yes in the southern states Whitetail are the size on dogs, but they are a different breed in the north. But really, who cares? I like Mule deer meat better anyway.
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d_hoffman Super Member
Joined: Feb 13, 2007 Posts: 696 Location: Chillicothe, Ohio
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 6:09 pm Post subject: Re: How do you count the rack points on deer where you live? |
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One at a time........HAHAHA I count them the same way as Morax.
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