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I measure for B&C and few other books. Without seeing the rack or having it in my hands, I’m not sure if I can be much help other than to say anything that comes off the main beam in odd places or off of other points including other non-typical points will be considered a non-typical point. If you plan on trying to score more deer or for that matter other game, you can order their manual which is pretty much self explanatory.

Whats got me confused is the gnarly stuff around the bases, how do you score that? Theres a few stickers that ive circled below… could these count as points, or are they not even measured at all…
Gnarly stuff near bases

Stickers

[B]score sheet for whitetail http://www.boone-crockett.org/bgRecords/bc_scoring_typwhitetail.asp?area=bgRecords&type=Typical+Whitetail+Deer

[B]scoresheet for mule deer http://www.boone-crockett.org/bgRecords/bc_scoring_typmuledeer.asp?area=bgRecords&type=Typical+Mule+Deer+%26+Blacktail

you may have to copy and put the url in you browser to get to the web score sheets

I agree with Joe that this may indeed be a mule deer rack, so what may be considered non typical points coming off the G-2’s of a whitetail are actually the G-3’s for a mule deer. The definition of a point is it must be at least 1′ long, and at any point along it’s length at least 1′ down, the lenght must be greater than it’s width. It’s important to note that while measuring, when the tape falls between the 1/8″ marks and lands on a 1/16″ mark or more, it is rounded up except when a point measures less than an actual inch. So if it measures 15/16″ it isn’t rounded up unless it is more than 1” to begin with. The points around the burr get measured from the main beam but not farther underneath towards bone which would give it a longer lenght. Not sure if any of that helped or not.

you’d think its a mule deer at first glance, but its actually a whitetail taken by my great-grandfather on the family plot of land up in the northern part of wisconsin. I’m not sure exactly how old it is, but its between 60 and 80 years old.

Wayne, out of the stickers around the burr, the one closest to the tape measure in the last pic was the only one over an inch, but it came in at 1 3/8″ with a width of 1 5/8″, so then that one would not count as a point, right?

If at onch down or more you can find a spot where the width is less than the length, it is still a point. So if at let’s say 1 1/8 down the width is let’s say 7/8, then widens down at the base to that 1 5/8 it is still a point. Otherwise if the width is bigger all the way down then no it doesn’t qualify as a point.

If I’m understanding you right, you are saying at 1 1/8″ it was 1 2/8″. (everything is measured in 1/8 except skulls are measured in 1/16) If that is the case, the width is larger than the lenght at that point, so no it wouldn’t qualify as a point. At least one inch down anywhere along the point, the lenght at that point needs to be larger than the width. If the lenght is larger than the width anywhere along that point, the whole lenght of that point even though the base may be larger than the overall lenght, is measured for that point. None of those points near the burr look very wide, are you sure you are measuring the width against the lenght on these?

There you go, you got it now……….