Eyeguards

[JDHasty]

For me I would really like to not see another photo of an elk taken w/short focal length lens, w/the hunter standing as far behind it as possible yet still able to reach out and hold onto an antler.  It not only looks hokey it makes is look like the hunter is deliberately trying to exaggerate the size of the animal's rack.  We really don't have to deal w/anyone we hunt with trying to claim brow tines as points when they make a cellular call and tell us they got a buck.  They will usually say they got a three or four point and sometimes will mention brow tines if they are exceptionally prominent.   

[buckcanyonlodge]

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[2labs]

This pic. Needs to be on the Bigfoot thread! This is a half Biggie love child

[JDHasty]

Was looking at another thread and it peaked my interest in the subject of that discussion.  While taking a look at the Facebook page I came across this outstanding example of what is being discussed here.

[jkthomps]

I just shoot doe so I don't have to get into this argument

[highmuley]

It appears we have the same basic determination. I don't typically count eye guards on mulies.....but I do for whitetail. The only exception being meat in the freezer or not....(I don't eat the horns anyways)... But I don't over compensate the eye guards...I have 4x4 mulies with eye guards hanging in my home....no 5x5's...we ARE weird aren't we?

[JakeLand]

Where I hunt ( Blacktails ) we have areas where all big branch antler bucks have eye guards and other areas where they don't it's almost cut and dry so we call it how it is plain and simple if it's a 3x3 with eye guards that's how we call it if there's no eye guards then we don't it's not a matter of pride we will describe it how it is  it sounds like the east vs west counting points. Tell me you would shoot a buck without eye guards over a buck with and I would call you crazy the racks look better with matter of fact

[tgomez]

I just shoot doe so I don't have to get into this argument

[kellama2001]

I am SO GLAD I found this thread! I now realize to my horror that I have been doling out some serious faux pas over the last few years! (my apologies to anyone I may have injured in my ignorance)  Being a relatively new and self-taught hunter, I just went off what the regs said about eye guards, and also the harvest reporting tool (left side points, right side points).  My 3x3 mulie with eyeguards is NOT a 4x4, nor is my 3x4 whitetail with 3 eyeguards and a forked back tine a 5x7.  Thank you all for keeping me from being laughed off the mountain from here on out! 

[jasnt]

I think not counting eye guards is a Muley thing. But with whitetail I always count the eye guards.

[JDHasty]

At the end of the day people who quibble over brow tines being counted or not being counted are about as annoying and petty as those who make a  "federal case" out of someone referring to a magazine as a clip.  I don't have time for such trivial concern being elevated to such proportions in my life. 

[boneaddict]

Good to know

[BULLBLASTER]

At the end of the day people who quibble over brow tines being counted or not being counted are about as annoying and petty as those who make a  "federal case" out of someone referring to a magazine as a clip.  I don't have time for such individuals in my life.

Yet you still feel the need to comment in the thread... 

[jdb]

At the end of the day people who quibble over brow tines being counted or not being counted are about as annoying and petty as those who make a  "federal case" out of someone referring to a magazine as a clip.  I don't have time for such trivial concern being elevated to such proportions in my life.

glad I could be of service 

[link]

At the end of the day people who quibble over brow tines being counted or not being counted are about as annoying and petty as those who make a  "federal case" out of someone referring to a magazine as a clip.  I don't have time for such individuals in my life.

Yet you still feel the need to comment in the thread... 

Eight times!