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Community => Taxidermy & Scoring => Topic started by: Switchback on March 17, 2020, 02:01:55 PM

Title: SCI Scoring Questions
Post by: Switchback on March 17, 2020, 02:01:55 PM: So I shot an axis with my bow on Lanai during the state land hunt, and was looking at the SCI minimums. I've never scored anything before and have a couple questions about the minimums and the categories as well.

1 - I assume my default category would be the one circled in green, X95. Free range, typical, North America?

2 - Why is the gold minimum for rifle so much smaller than the gold minimum for bow, in the X17 (nontypical, free-range) category? 113.25" for rifle gold, 172.25" for bow gold?

3 - the minimum bow gold for non-typical free range is the 172.25" mentioned above, but for non-free-range (I don't know the proper term for that) it's 123 1/8"? 50" lower minimums for a fenced animal than free-range?

4 - My buck has a little bitty kicker, I think it's over an inch, and not wider than it is long. With that, I suppose I could technically qualify for the non-typical entry?

5 - Do I have to enter it in free-range? Like the non-typical gold for bow I might actually meet (it'll be close) - but the non-typical gold for bow in the free-range category is stupid high. And a small island is a lot like a fenced area anyway.

Anybody familiar with the SCI and scoring stuff in general able to answer my questions? I don't want to score it without understanding these - and maybe I'm misreading everything on the image (screenshot of their site) anyway. I think there's a real good chance I'm misreading something, or looking at the wrong place.

Also - I think the deer will be somewhere in the mid-120" range. So for the typical free-range bow entry, I'm pretty confident about silver (111-1/4") - but if I can score non-free range, in the non-typical category, I might get a gold award (123-1/8")?
This all seems super weird. Thanks for your help!