I carry a tape... because I like to take measurements of the hide before I skin it so I know what size the hide is, what the placement of the horns/antlers are on the mount, the angle of them etc...

I think I"ve rough scored about 3-4 of my deer in my whole life just out of curiosity, but always when I'm in the mounting process of them....

Of course I dont' care who else carries a tape, but its damn sure not to come up with a score on the hunt... that never matters.

I've said it beofre and will say it again, to this day so far, I have 2 trophies that mean the most to me. One is a whitetail doe. The other was an 802 yard shot on a small caribou bull. Both grace my wall due to difficulty of the hunt, and both bring back more memories than my largest whitetails so far.

We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....