Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting What's this guy score?

I thought this was lost many years ago during one of my many military moves. My dad died last month and going through his storage, I found a box. Finally opened it. And here is, by far, the biggest buck I've ever killed. 1998 I believe, home on leave from Japan.

Damn what a hammer!! What state?

Southern Idaho

Nice rack

Funny how hard it is to score without ears.

Front forks are 60% of score so off the cuff I’d guess a 175 frame (deep back forks helps) and about 19” of extra if we are going gross

Pretty cool you found it. That’s a buck to be proud of. Was it a fun hunt?

Post up what it scores at some point

That’s a nice one…

A buck like that, while home on leave is one of the best and most memorable!

That is a helluva nice deer!

Looking at the skull plate, he's 29 to 30 wide and with the extras and deep forks, he's easily in the 80s. I think if you taped him, you'd be surprised with the gross score. That's not a good buck, that's a great buck. Congrats.

I'd guess mid '80's as well. Regardless, a fantastic buck.

Must have been in a pretty big box.

Condolences on the loss of your father.

bufaf;
Good morning sir, please accept my condolences on the loss of your father.

Congratulations on taking that grand buck and for sure for finding him again.

I'm the farthest thing from an expert on numeric mulie scores, but if I saw that thing running around on the mountain behind the house, I'd likely describe it as mid 180's at very least.

As others have said - for sure up here in our section of BC - that's a very, very nice buck.

All the best.

Dwayne

Pictures are hard but gross score I'd say it blows right by 190".

Need some scale or perspective but pretty short in the front with several inches of deductions. Obviously a pig of a buck no matter the score! I'd guess 190's-200.

Looking at the skull plate and the double recliner/couch thing it's laying on, that gives a guy a pretty good idea. On the hoof, double deep forks, some extras, not broke, flip the safety off and bust him. It's a next level mule deer for sure.

Nobody with half a brain gives a crap about deducts. Gross 'em up, that's what they are.

JGRaider;
Good afternoon, pretty much evening down in West Texas I see, hopefully the day went at least somewhat according to plan for you and you're all well down there.

Regarding the whole B&C typical vs non-typical topic, while I did learn how to do it well enough to measure for our little fish, game and gun club way back when, the Victorian ideal of symmetry never made sense to me.

Better said, I did in fact understand it, so it did make sense to me JG - but I didn't agree with it.

For me whatever an animal added up to - that is to say gross score - was a more meaningful number to me.

I thought that God and nature with all it's genetics and habitat had added up to a total sum, so who was I to start deducting?

As you can well imagine, some in the club did not share my view on numeric totals - not whatsoever or even a wee bit...

Anyways, sometimes I'm not too, too far out guessing a sum total score and sometimes I'm so far off I'm not sure why I made the guess.

Still many if not most of us humans tend to reduce thing to a numeric value in order to speak to each other in terms we understand, or so I've come to believe in the main.

All the best to you all.

Dwayne

nice rack no matter what it scores. but let us know please

That's the only deer that I ever killed with that rifle.

There is just something about a big mule deer buck.That's a beauty.Congrats to you on a great buck!

That deer is way bigger than 190"...

I bet he grosses 205-210" ish...