Eyeguards

[JDHasty]

At the end of the day people who quibble over brow tines being counted or not being counted are about as annoying and petty as those who make a  "federal case" out of someone referring to a magazine as a clip.  I don't have time for such individuals in my life.

Yet you still feel the need to comment in the thread... 

Eight times!

It just really isn't that important to me that I will quibble over it. 

I hunt blacktails mostly and where we hunt we have gotten them with three inch brow tines and we have gotten big mature bucks that were as slick as a banister rail up to the first fork.  Like I said up thread, I called that buck a 3x4 and didn't mention the brow tines even though they are fairly substantial.  My buddy called it a 4x5 and I don't have a problem with him referring to it as that either.

For me it is a nice 3x4.  If we are out hunting and I get a call from him saying he got a big 4x4, it could be that it has brow tines that are being counted and that would make it a 3x3 w/brow tines or it could be a slick 4x4 w/o brow tines. 

So in that case if he had shot the latter I would not be envisioning something bigger than he is claiming, but it could very easily be that I am envisioning something less than what he is claiming. 

In his case I know that what he says it is includes any brow tines.     

[DOUBLELUNG]

Straighten me out please - is a 4x5 with eye guards a 9 pointer or an 11 pointer? 

[jackelope]

Straighten me out please - is a 4x5 with eye guards a 9 pointer or an 11 pointer?

Does "with" mean including eye guards or plus eye guards? I'm from back east you know, so I feel kinda like I can comment on this with past expertise.

[jackelope]

Man, a bunch of you guys would spaz out back east trying to keep track of points. Try having a couple buddies come west to hunt and talk deer.  They all look at you funny when they're trying to decide why they flew all the way across the country looking to shoot at least a four point buck.

[JDHasty]

I was a little touchy the other day when I posted on this subject because I had been up at the City Shops and this topic almost devolved into a shootin' war.  I post here and a few other guys I know post here and there are a whole bunch who don't post, but read what others post and I was kinda' taken aback when people were so jacked up on this topic. 

[westsidehntr]

Back east guys are all messed up  .

I think people who don't understand the differences in whitetails vs mulies and blacktail would never understand this argument.

[Jarhead Chase]

Well, here goes the comment that will probably end up getting me banned from all future discussions;

I like the eastern method of counting. You count all of the legal points and just call it that. It's as simple as that. Instead of "it's a 4x3 with eye guards" you can just say "it's a 9 point" and call it a day. It's just simpler that way.

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[Rainier10]

I think anyone who wasn't born here, doesn't look and think just like me is wrong.

Insert sarcasm emoticon here.

[westsidehntr]

Well, here goes the comment that will probably end up getting me banned from all future discussions;

I like the eastern method of counting. You count all of the legal points and just call it that. It's as simple as that. Instead of "it's a 4x3 with eye guards" you can just say "it's a 9 point" and call it a day. It's just simpler that way.

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It is simpler, but my take is that isn't descriptive enough, as has been covered already. Huge difference between how mulie and blacktail guys picture 4x5 and a 3x4 with eyeguards.

[JDHasty]

Well, here goes the comment that will probably end up getting me banned from all future discussions;

I like the eastern method of counting. You count all of the legal points and just call it that. It's as simple as that. Instead of "it's a 4x3 with eye guards" you can just say "it's a 9 point" and call it a day. It's just simpler that way.

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By God what are you thinking, you better be careful there tiger.  Saying something like that could get you tossed in the can for incitement to riot. 

[skeeter 20i]

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"

[Rainier10]

#allpointsmatter

 

[Watimberghost]

 

[NOCK NOCK]

Straighten me out please - is a 4x5 with eye guards a 9 pointer or an 11 pointer?

That would all depend on how many eyeguards....

[Bango skank]

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.