What does he score?

[Rainier10]

Borrowing this photo from another thread in the elk hunting section.

Some are saying they would let this deer walk and others say they would shoot in a heartbeat.

Tough to tell with just this one photo and unfortunately I don’t know what it really scores. I would like to know what you guys think this deer scores. I will chime in with my thoughts later. Don’t want to sway opinions one way or the other right out the gate.

[Timberstalker]

I see a 150’s buck.

[BULLBLASTER]

I say mid to upper 130s 

[Karl Blanchard]

Depending on if that is a split eye guard on his passenger side or not he's gonna be 138-141.   I put him at 59 and 63 with a 16" spread credit.  I'm pretty sure that I am on the generous side would that guesstimation as well as I think he's a bit shorter in the main beams

[PlateauNDN]

I'd say stick him on the wall.

[BULLBLASTER]

I'd say stick him on the wall.

Do you score your animals in how many fire sticks they will make?

[Jonathan_S]

My initial thought on the other thread, 135" but maybe less, that spread could be 14.5-15" or maybe 16"?

Definitely not an impressively antlered animal, just a healthy young muley.

[JWEBB]

138 gross

[Rainier10]

So my initial thought on the other thread was 120-125" but that was just a quick glance, I was more focused on the elk aspect of the story even a 150" deer wouldn't have swayed my opinion.  Then when people started talking about shooting him for sure I started to take a second look.  I missed that there is potentially and probably an eye guard on the passenger side.  That makes left and right even more unequal.

With all that in mind and after multiple looks, I think that it could be a 130" deer and maybe if you really stretched the tape a 140" but I am just not seeing it.

Is it a nice deer?  You bet.  Will it be a stud next year?  Probably.  Would I shoot it at swakane during the November archery season?  Heck yes, first day, last day and any day in between that.

My answer on shooting him in the other thread was completely different as those circumstances were totally different.

[PlateauNDN]

I'd say stick him on the wall.

Do you score your animals in how many fire sticks they will make?

   when I look at animals all I see is, steak, burgers, fire sticks cant eat horn. The horn is just a consolation prize.

[Reidus]

maybe 140.....more like 135.

[Rainier10]

To me it's almost like the antlers don't jive with the rest of the deer.  Antlers look great but the body just screams young deer to me.  That is why I think it would be a stud in a year or two.

[2MANY]

It's a great Columbian Sage Tail.

[SkookumHntr]

145 was my first thought, actually 135ish

[Jonathan_S]

It's a great Columbian Sage Tail.

   I'd need to get philtrum deep in his tarsal glands to be sure though.

[Reidus]

i smell 10% coastal blacktail in his genetics

[DOUBLELUNG]

Low to mid 130s I think, 140 would not surprise me much.  Really nice G4s, decent G2s and mediocre G3s.  Not the kind of buck where presence/absence of G1s matters unless you are trying to squeak in to P&Y.  I find when the main beam dips and raises it's longer than first impression.  Narrow spread, average mass.  Nice young buck, in years past in certain locales I wouldn't have considered shooting him - in other locales he'd have been wearing a tag. 

I don't really hunt big bucks any more, so 1-2-3 yep he's legal.  He'd be welcome in my freezer.

[Timberstalker]

Interesting.  I saw him a bit bigger than the majority.  Still, see him the same.

His tine length and width is deceiving, to me at least.

[jdb]

I don’t see that buck as much over 125” and that with a generous spread credit. He looks to me like he has very short main beams as well. But I’d shoot him in a heart beat

[Old Man Yager]

IDK what he scores, it would be boom splat for me

[CaNINE]

130 class.  Washington general season....I couldn’t get out of the truck fast enough.