Score this buck

My little brother shot this buck yesterday here in NC with his muzzleloader. What do you all think it scored? I'll attach a good trail cam pic too

135"

around 65# finished meat

138”

Mid 130s maybe 140. Looks bigger in the trail cam photo.

Great deer!

That would have been a nice one next year.

Hard to judge the mass but 135" is probably pretty close.

Looks like a nice 8-pointer.

140 to 145 gross

132

117 to 120
Congrats to your brother on a nice 8 pointer

Pics from the back always look bigger

136

Congrats.

Agree. Been fooled a time or two in the field by that angle.

the best answer, meat will nourish your body, antlers just nourish your ego.

143 gross

I don't know how well you guys bone out your deer, but I'll bet I can get closer to 75#.

From talking to Midwest hunters visiting Alaska, I was surprised to hear how few (if any) cut out the rib meat, etc..

As an 8 pt.....128" to 132"....he's got some got tine length and main beam length...

130"

I’m with swamp wolf @128

139

150

138.

Whatever he scores, a nice one for NC, not many reach that size in my area anyway

131 net.

They always look bigger when they are headed away.

Long main beams & G-2's, G-3's on that sucker.

Nice 4 X 4 either way.

walleyed

125 ish

I'll give him a 8.5 outta 10

I like to break down the score:
I’ll give him 23” main beams: 46”
G1:2”
G2:10”
G3: 9”
Say equal on both sides so 42”
Spread: 14”
Mass: 28”
Total gross: 130”

8’s at that age will be 8’s later on. They’ll gain some mass and some stickers, but still an 8. Great deer to take! Congrats to the hunter.

hardly pays on does and young bucks , not much there. on a older buck there is more

we shoot what shows up , more tags than you can fill or haver freezer space for

65 was a just a guess at finished , all trimmed and bagged I seldom get huge deer nor have I weighed any of them.

with 8 of us at deer camp this year we should have 32 tags to fill in weekend and I am only good for cutting up 3 a night

I also hunt most often where the local population is isolated and stunted from inbreeding so I may not have the best sense of weight

Some real close guesses, good job guys

Swamp and roztocki were closest

It scored 127" yesterday

Nice deer. Congrats to your brother.

This is a good lesson on why trail cam pictures can be deceiving without multiple angles and a frame of reference. I would have said 150's from the trailcam photo and high 120's from the still shot.

ol'dad

Got a pic of the score sheet or actual measurements? Just want to see where my guesses were off. Probably on the main beams and maybe tine length.

We’ve had some deer we swore were low 120’s based on camera pics but realized in person they were closer to 140’s. One 8 I shot a couple years ago was down on the list just because he was 4.5 and still an 8pt. I saw him from 350 yards heading towards me and text my son he was coming in. As he kept getting closer I kept texting my son he’s bigger than we thought. At 150 I text him that we're going to be scoring him soon, lol. My son kept texting back, don’t shoot him he’s not 140. I told him he wasn’t there and don’t go by pics. He was 142 6/8. He did have a kicker off the back and 2” extra beam.

On the other end of the spectrum my son had a deer everyone who saw the pics said 140ish. Even I was fooled by the pics. His wife shot the deer and I climbed down early to go see this deer. When I got to his house and looked in the back of the truck, I asked where it was because that deer in the back of the truck wouldn’t go 120, lol. They were so hyped based on pics that when they saw the deer, they saw what they wanted to see. Of course my DIL was thrilled, but my son realized he had grossly miscalculated.

Other than an actual shed or sheds to score, it’s all a guess until he’s in hand.

No score sheets here. If I had to guess the measurements were probably just added on a phone calculator as my dad read them off to my brother. This was not a certified Boone and Crockett scoring job

We have two winners here! ^^^^

I'm going to guess 127".

135” gross

140

It takes a huge 8 pt to score in the 130’s. Eric

Did to take a H4 mesurment?

Bang is what I say

Like this?

This one grossed just under 160

140

Didn't realize whitetails lived on the planet Hoth. Good grief that is some stark country!

This one scored 138 7/8. Let us know after he gets it scored what it measured!

Congrats on the nice deer by the way.

Easy, 8 point.
Enough for several breakfast lunch and dinner meals

Score: He’d a been a goodun next year.

Haha, I knew that was “net” and not “gross” when I looked at the pic. Nets are for fish. Great looking deer! Love the splits and spread!

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