Eyeguards

[grundy53]

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.

It's a descriptor. It doesn't actually have to guard the eyes. Just like sword and dagger points on elk aren't actually swords or daggers.

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[jackelope]

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.

Clearly You feel very strongly about this.

[JDHasty]

A simple formula for eyeguards: count them on your deer, do not count them on on your buddies deer

I had it backward.  I normally count them on my buddies deer, because he counts them, but I don't count them on mine. 

[Jonathan_S]

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.

It's a descriptor. It doesn't actually have to guard the eyes. Just like sword and dagger points on elk aren't actually swords or daggers.

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Hold the phone... they aren't?   

[bowhntr]

On blacktails  and Mule deer, saying a 3x3 with eyeguards gives a much better mental picture of the buck you are describing than calling it a 4x4. 

[chester]

I made the transition from eastern count to western count pretty easily.  I'm still thrown by the east Lewiscountians' description of a 5-point bull as "three point double eye guards" and a 6-point as "four point double eye guards".  What is the geographic range of that nomenclature, and does it have a name (e.g., Morton count)?

Also, west Lewis county and Pacific county. This is how I was taught to count antler points.

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[Kenaiwild]

Pushed this one from a 170's buck to 184.  Still call it A 4 point with nice eye guards..

[Kenaiwild]

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[MtnMuley]

 

[Jonathan_S]

I made the transition from eastern count to western count pretty easily.  I'm still thrown by the east Lewiscountians' description of a 5-point bull as "three point double eye guards" and a 6-point as "four point double eye guards".  What is the geographic range of that nomenclature, and does it have a name (e.g., Morton count)?

Also, west Lewis county and Pacific county. This is how I was taught to count antler points.

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LMAO! 

[fishnfur]

I made the transition from eastern count to western count pretty easily.  I'm still thrown by the east Lewiscountians' description of a 5-point bull as "three point double eye guards" and a 6-point as "four point double eye guards".  What is the geographic range of that nomenclature, and does it have a name (e.g., Morton count)?

Also, west Lewis county and Pacific county. This is how I was taught to count antler points.

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LMAO! 

I vote for calling it the Pe Ell Count.  That doesn't sound so salty.

[chester]

Just call it Roosevelt count, like the difference between whitetail (count eyeguards) and muley ( don't count)


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[hirshey]

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.

good explanation. Also gave me a smile on this rainy Seattle day!

[tgomez]

Anything over an inch is a point. So if the eyeguard is an inch or over its a point. There I said it, debate over. Wonderful what reading and understanding will do for you!

[jdb]

Don't believe everything you read