Did that yesterday morning!....Nice cow horned spike with one beam sporting a 1" kicker.

Never gave a care about score, I guess that's a bug that never bit me. Just getting out, sitting in a stand, or up in a tree, or stalking the woods is the good part. Stew, sausages, roast, and steaks for a couple of months is the payoff.

Add me to this list......

Ill give that Deer Sausage, Deer Burgar's, & Summer Sausage a score of 110. That's the only score I care about.

only ever shot one buck and I have never measured it. Don't really care what it scores but I am kinda curious what it would.

DITTO.
I have racks from forks (when they were legal) up to 11 point- NEVER scored. Don't care!

me too!!!

Ditto


I'm with you on the age part. I've passed several young but very nice deer this year. I am afraid that my wife's uncle will be taking one of them tomorrow, since he has requested to be able to hunt at the farm. If he does, I'll congratulate him and be happy for him, because he isn't a hunter and is wanting to get out there with his son and hunt. That is more important to me than the age of the deer he's liable to shoot...I kind of hope a bruiser steps out for them, even though it will mean I can't get him. But I would rather that happen than for him to shoot a young buck that has potential

P.S. Score is irrelevant to me...I've never scored one yet, not saying I'm not curious...but the look of the deer is what gets my blood pumping heck, I still get a rush squeezing the trigger on a doe it means fresh vittles

I knew it was cold, but wasn't aware it was THAT cold!!!

Taxidermist always tapes my deer.......its not my deciding factor when I let a, arrow fly or squeeze trigger.

Only deer I've had scored were done so at Camp Bullis b/c of management.

I don't worry about scoring either, but unlike some I absolutely treasure the horns. From shoulder mounts to just taking a bow saw and cutting the skull cap off, I have saved every buck's antlers from the last 25 years of hunting whitetails. Meat comes and goes, but antlers help me remember the experience. Most state on this thread and I agree 100%, if you are thrilled with the buck, then don't worry about the score (within reason...age, AR, etc.)

i was blessed two weeks ago to get a drop tine 10 point. Not the biggest scoring buck of my life, but was the first drop tine I had ever seen in my life! I do not care what it scores!

oh sure you're one of those that always second guesses someone's score they post up!!!

I was lucky enough to kill a net book deer when I was 11. I've killed some bigger ones since then, but there's just something about your first 170" that is special.

he had really long beams......

I put a tape to my best bow buck and it broke my heart. I've shot a couple of decent ones since but I haven't put a tape to them. I've got a spot reserved for the right buck on the wall but the other two I have mounted aren't there because of the antler measurements. One my son killed at 12 years old in Missouri on his first/only out of state hunt on a youth weekend and the other I killed on my sons first hunt when he was 7. The next year he started killing his own. I want to kill a really nice buck but the hunting is about more than that.

I've scored a couple of bucks I have mounted, but most of mine get scored at the dinner table!! They have ALL been trophies😄

I remember a time when you killed a deer and the #1 question asked was, "what did he weigh?", not "What did he score?".

It wasn't all that long ago either.

Why did it break your heart? Were you not happy with him when you shot him?

If the tape had the potential to break your heart I would have left it in the drawer...

I've never shot a deer worth scoring ... The only one was a deer my dad injured and I found him and dispatched him , he's on my dads wall. Still waiting on mine

I've only shot one buck that wasn't a spike - an 6.5 year old 8-point cull the ranch owner asked me to take out. The ranch scored it at 102 for their records. I'd be interested in the score of anything I did get, but as I am clueless to scoring, it's more for my own education than anything else. I really have no interest in putting one on the wall, although the wife really wants one.

I score most of mine just bc I'm curious and want to keep a running average for the property. If you don't want your deer scored though, don't show it to me, I will tell you what it scored to the nearest 1/8"ish and even age it to the nearest .5ish.

Score is a good way to give a quick perspective on the deer's size I must concede.

It has gotten blown way out of proportion for too many purposes though.

I miss the days of describing deer as the "heavy 8", "narrow 11", etc..... I'm just old I know.

Scoring a deer is for the judgment of others. If I shoot him I am a proud hunter!