another big 4x4

[buck man]

to keep with the 4x4 thread .....heres a big 4 I tried to get last year

very nice I love big fours!!

[bobcat]

Looks like a "big three" to me. But, probably just me. Very nice buck though, regardless of how one labels it.

[DBHAWTHORNE]

Love big 4x4's!

[PA BEN]

I hate to tell you guys this but here in washington we call those bucks 3X3's. Just because the game dept. calls them 4x4's it's not. 4X4 is 4 points on the main beam.

[DBHAWTHORNE]

I am pretty sure all tines (including eye guards) grow off the mainbeam...so if that is the WA standard he would still be called a 4x4. 

[Skyvalhunter]

Don't count the eyeguards myself but everyone has their own way.

[alwinearcher]

There is nothing I love more than a group of guys who don't want to count eyeguards... And yet everyone still counts them toward their score.. Haha
I can't wait till I hear of of these guys say they shot a "3 point" in 117 lol

[BULLBLASTER]

I hate to tell you guys this but here in washington we call those bucks 3X3's. Just because the game dept. calls them 4x4's it's not. 4X4 is 4 points on the main beam.

Looks like there are plenty of guys here in Washington who call a 4 point what he is.
I have a few pics of a big one from last year I will see if I can dig up and post. Might be on Tue hard drive from my old water logged laptop... need to have them recovered.

[huntnnw]

That cracks me up... That's a 4x4 not a 3x3... as u can see it has points longer than 1" so. The next time u shoot a Whitey that has 7" brows make sure u deduct 14" from the score

[Skyvalhunter]

Everyones entitled to their opinion.

[boneaddict]

I'm even weirder, I don't count them for muledeer, but do count them for whitetails.   No real sound reasoning to defend what I do for whitetails either, but I know some that have eyeguards bigger than the rest of their points.

[huntnnw]

How I count mule deer.... I think mule deer guys count whiteys that way cause they count muleys That way. Mule deer generally have none to very small brows unlike whitetail they almost always have brows and a huge part of their score.

[PA BEN]

Shot my first deer at age 14 in 121, 32 years ago. My family settled in the Bluecreek area north of Chewelah in the 1800's. And that's the way you count them. Great, great grandpa to my great grandpa to my grandpa to my Dad to me and to my kids. You count the points on the main beams. NOT THE EYE GUARDS. It's funny that all the people who hunted with called it that way. And yes, as far as score, all points. Back East all points. But not here in Washington.

[alwinearcher]

Shot my first deer at age 14 in 121, 32 years ago. My family settled in the Bluecreek area north of Chewelah in the 1800's. And that's the way you count them. Great, great grandpa to my great grandpa to my grandpa to my Dad to me and to my kids. You count the points on the main beams. NOT THE EYE GUARDS. It's funny that all the people who hunted with called it that way. And yes, as far as score, all points. Back East all points. But not here in Washington.

Are you saying a eyeguard doesn't grow off the main beam?

[PA BEN]

The main beam is above the eye guard. Us local boy's know this. If you didn't have a Washington home grown person showing you the way, you wouldn't know.