Eyeguards

[JDHasty]

A friend of mine shot Buddy.  He was given permission to hunt blacktails on a property, but just so long as he didn't shoot Buddy.  Buddy was the only eight pointer around so it was easy to tell Buddy from the rest of the deer.  Unfortunately these folks are from back east and they count the sum total of points on both antlers. 

[boneaddict]

Kinda like democrats at the polling booth.   Count you, your dead aunt and her ten toes. 

[buckcanyonlodge]

Ya, I agree.  I would call the buck a 4X5 with gnarly eye guards and lots of trash.  My other daughter shot a 183 typical nice Grant Co buck in 2010 with a sticker on the left side.  I would call that buck a nice 4X4 with eye guards and a sticker to boot.

Down home , we call a sticker a "fork guard"..If you call it a sticker around the campfire you would be ridiculed endlessly. So , if you were Down Home you would call your buck a 4 pointer on the right and a 4 pointer on the left with a fork guard on the left and and eye guard on the right and an eye guard on the left. Come on guys it can't be that hard to describe your bucks antler correctly. And if you use adjectives like " gnarly or massive or giant or toad" we all know that you are trying to make your buck sound bigger. Now you know , Dave.

[dvolmer]

Love It!!!!

[The Gobble-stopper]

When I grew up, like I ever did. The points were to indicate the age of a deer. At least in the blacktail our family hunted. A spike was one year old, a two point, was two and so on. If it had an eye guard it didn't make it another year older. So we only counted one side without eyeguards. Back then it wasn't that you were shooting to get bragging rights. Or trying to shoot so many points to make it legal. It was all about getting an older deer. So when you shot a 6 point. Everyone knew it was probably a six year old. And not a two year old with eye guards on both sides. A six point as they would call it back east. And nothing much to brag about when you are trying to feed your family. That's all!

[Dan-o]

Awesome....

The annual eye guard drama thread!

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

Eyeguards are suppose to protect the eyes of the great antlered animals while they are fighting. The animals with the bigger eyeguards win? Don't they?

[BULLBLASTER]

Eyeguards are suppose to protect the eyes of the great antlered animals while they are fighting. The animals with the bigger eyeguards win? Don't they?

Is that like saying the guy with the thickest glasses wins? 

[boneaddict]

 


No drama Dano.  Just campfire talk.

[Maverick]

This Grant County buck my daughter took in 2009 had 16 scorable inches in his eye guards and below.  186 gross inches.

Wasn't her picture in sportsmans in Kennewick? I've seen the picture before.

[Jonathan_S]

Eyeguards are suppose to protect the eyes of the great antlered animals while they are fighting. The animals with the bigger eyeguards win? Don't they?

Is that like saying the guy with the thickest glasses wins? 

Haha!

[jdb]

I don't count eye guards and Im comfortable with the size of my genitlia. Always figured the guys who count eye guards were trying to make up for that fact that they're not comfortable with theirs

[jdb]

Tic toc tic toc

[Bigshooter]

Tradition, heritage, personal choice, whatever you want to call it.   For legal reasons sure count it.   Mule deer camp, get laughed off the mountain.   If you want to be taken seriously, call a four point a four point, if it's a four point with eye guards call it that.  If it's a three point with eye guards, it's not a four point.  Quit trying to make your buck sound bigger. 
Much like finding a d cup stuffed with tissue.
Most of the time this has nothing to do with elk or whitetail.  That's a different campfire. 

Basically it can't be explained any further here, because we aren't allowed to use insults, explicitives, or really even be a manly here.  The same pc world that won't let a person speak his mind on here, is the same pc world trying to count all the points on a mule deer.

 

[Chesapeake]

For me its non-descriptive to just drop a number for all scorable points. Is it a 3x3 with eye guards, or a 4x4? If a guy says its a 4x4 I picture a mainframe 4x4, not a 3x3 with eye guards.
So I describe the point count for the main frame(3x3), and then describe the secondary's (eye guards, stickers, trash, ect..).

Same for elk. A 5x5 with devil points isn't a 6x6. Guys know what a 6x6 is and its not a 5x5 with devil points. Same with a 5x5 with crowns, its not a 7x7. Its a 5x5 with crowns.

Its about describing a rack in a way that a guy can pretty well picture what your talking about. Calling a 3x3 with eye guards a 4x4 is misleading, just like calling a forkey with double eye guards a 4x4 is misleading.