Eyeguards

[Dan-o]

In our house we always counted the eye guards as points if they were longer than the smallest main beam point.  Yeah I know it's hokey but it's how we've always done it. 

Question:
If you go to get your buck scored and the eye guards count to the point total why don't they count in some hunters judgment?  I mean if a eye guard is the G1 or Normal Point and stickers are Abnormal Points aren't they all still points?  Why the point discrimination? Can't we all just get a trophy for participation? 

This one we call a 5x5 w/ a sticker but I could see how some would call it a 5x6 or a 4x4 w/ 3 eye guards or a 4x4 w/ split eye guards on one side I guess it could be a 10+ or an 11- 

The worst part of it is that we refer to this one as the "smaller one"

That appears to be a spike with 8 extra eyeguards and a brow tine......

[Gringo31]

They are part of the description, not part of the count


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[Dan-o]

So......   when is a point not a point???

Just wondering why it matters where the point grows??

[fishnfur]

Gotta love the off season.  Nothing to do but throw about a bit of idle banter.

Beats not talking about hunting, but not by a hell of a lot.

I don't care at all that whitetail hunters count all the points cumulatively.  I understand it and can easily live with it.  I also like the better descriptor of stating the points on each side (ie: 4 X 3).   I'm always a bit squeamish to see a situation where a blacktail spork with nubbin eyeguards called a five point.  Perhaps it's just me, but I like the NW tradition of counting the major points on the side having the most points, then adding the descriptor of whether or not it had eyeguards. 

[Bigshooter]

You guys are all screwed up.  Whether or not you count em is irrelevant.  What matters is that theyre not eyeguards!!!!!

Theyre browtines.  I believe jdhasty is the only one amongst you all who doesnt need to take a trip to the proctologist to have his head examined.

Only if you are a flattlander from back east. 

[Bigshooter]

I was looking for the title of a book that I read once that talked about browtines and eyeguards and ran across this link.  B&C calls them eyeguards and if you want to kill a high scoring buck they say you need to be looking for a 4x4 not counting eyeguards, and they also say that eyeguards are a bonus on blacktail and mule deer.  It also calls it western count if you call it a 4x4 with eyeguards.

https://www.boone-crockett.org/pdf/Field%20Judging_MuleDeer.pdf

[Bango skank]

Sorry but i dont see any way that a deers browtines actually perform the duty of protecting their eyes in a fight.  Browtine is a much more accurate term.  Calling them eyeguards rings about the same with me as people calling the white (not rub stained) tips of antlers "polished tips."  Its nonsense.  Like a deer or elk is making little circular motions just rubbing the tips of their antlers, which somehow rubs the brown off.  Total absurdity.

[JDHasty]

I guess that my Montana relatives referred to them as brow tines when I was a little kid and it has more or less, actually more than less, stuck with me to use that even though few people around here use it. 

[Skyvalhunter]

Eye guards deer, brow tines elk

[JakeLand]

Eye guards deer, brow tines elk

 Thank you some common sense joins

[buckcanyonlodge]

If I am elected I will solve the problem of counting or not counting the G-1 on deer antlers. The far left has infiltrated our ranks and is trying stir-up discontent. We must unite if we are to survive as hunters. I am the only one that can bring us together and call the G-1 a point or not a point . Recently there have been calls to describe the G-1 as a "Browtine" and not an "eyeguard". If elected I am the only one that can solve this very complex issue. Bla... Bla,.,. Bla,., Bla. In conclusion , if elected I will make Washington State Fish & Wildlife great again. I humbly ask for your support. 

[jasnt]

Eye guards deer, brow tines elk

 Thank you some common sense joins

[JDHasty]

If I am elected I will solve the problem of counting or not counting the G-1 on deer antlers. The far left has infiltrated our ranks and is trying stir-up discontent. We must unite if we are to survive as hunters. I am the only one that can bring us together and call the G-1 a point or not a point . Recently there have been calls to describe the G-1 as a "Browtine" and not an "eyeguard". If elected I am the only one that can solve this very complex issue. Bla... Bla,.,. Bla,., Bla. In conclusion , if elected I will make Washington State Fish & Wildlife great again. I humbly ask for your support.

Harumph, harumph

[Jonathan_S]

Eye guards deer, brow tines elk

 Thank you some common sense joins

When I read this it reminded me of Lincoln Chafee's Presidential platform of switching to the metric system.  It surprised me that there was support and that some people considered it an issue 

[jackelope]

Eye guards deer, brow tines elk

Back east, we called the eye guards brow tines...but we only had whitetails back there.