Legal or not

[HornHoarder]

Do you shoot this 2x2 with eyegaurds?

Looks like somebody already did 

[h2ofowlr]

I would shoot it.  Good table fare.

[RoyBoy]

It's a 2 point, with eye guards.

No!!! 

 thank you lol i see a little 3 point right there! 

[link]

Do you shoot this 2x2 with eyegaurds?

Hell yes, thats a nice buck. That two point is not the buck they had in mind when they made the three point restriction. The restriction was made to protect the year and a half old or immature two points. Even if that mature buck did not have eyeguards, he's not the type of buck that is intended to be "saved".
As to the first buck, its a two point with eyeguards and Im pretty sure he's legal.
As far as the question of calling it a two or three point, It is a TWO POINT. When someone tells you he shot a three point, is that the buck you picture in your head? No. If someone tells you he shot a four point, do you picture a two point frame with an eyeguard and a little sticker on the base? No, but if we are using some of your logic, then I guess it would be a four point huh?

[mfswallace]

Can't believe Run hasn't gotten into this debate 

[grundy53]

For everyone I have ever hunted with and myself those would be a 2 point or 2x2 with eye guards. If you were going around telling people you shot a 3 point and you showed them one of these bucks you would never hear the end of it.

[grundy53]

I grew up in Texas.. So I'd either call it a 6pt, or a 4pt w/ eyeguards.. We count all the points down there.. As does the rest of the country except maybe wa, id, and or. I never heard of counting only half the rack til I got here.

And Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona,  California.... All of the western states. Thats why they call it western count NOT northwestern count....

[mdbuck5x5]

2 point with eyegaurds,   only a greenhorn would say different 

Explain why.

western tradition,  don't know any old timer,  not one westerner of age that would call it anything different,  except some might just call it a 2 point.

Thats how I learned,  from my grandpa and thats just how it is around here.  Except with transplants and new hunters,  again though only my 

    I agree with you 100% there Mike. That's how I count it and that's how I was brought up. Have hunted most of my life with an an older guy and that's how he counted them!