The point I'm trying to make is that while brow tines are a safer bet than guessing at something around the 50 inch mark, they too can be a tricky sumbitch.
And you make that point well. We are among a fortunate few who, as residents of the area, don't have to count or measure - (non-res hunters do.) The really crazy thing is that the fall portion of the hunt requires one to kill any bull - antlers or not, while the January portion, when some bulls will have already shed, requires that a bull be an antlered one to be legal!???
As for the antler characteristics requirements; I kind of think, based on the moose I've killed over the years and where, that some bloodlines tend toward more brow tines while others don't - regardless the age. Some areas seem to produce antlers with really massive main beams regardless the antler mass beyond. Some areas produce huge antlers which go tall rather than wide and, if they lack brow tines, are therefore not legal by BT and width regs.
