jakehaffey

Im sure they work but you will be missing some of those pics that the others get. If you have a trail or something that attracts animals to a close specific spot then those would do the job.

Appears this is a useful list!

Good job gettin rid of those.

Thats cool, you need to go shoot some of them yotes out there!

Wow cant believe it was still there!

great buck!!!

Sweet! Congrats!

Man that sounds like fun! Great job!

Nice buck!

Great buck and great shot! Congrats!

Hey all, I have always wondered why any horned animal is scored the way they are. I saw a video a while back and this guy had a new scoring system that awarded more points for heavier bucks. He had an example of a buck that was really long but very skinny that outscored a buck that was shorter but way heavier. He gave points for diameter at the base of every tine. At least that's what I remember him doing. Anyways I was wondering what everyone thought if you were to create a box of some sort that officially measured any antlered animal by total volume of the antlers? If this box was created to give the exact volume you would get points on the actual size and not just for lengths and some mass. If you took the total volume and added the width then it seems to me scores would justify what animal truly is the biggest. I know it may seem a little far fetched of an idea but I do believe it is a doable idea. I have had this idea for a while and thought I would ask other hunters what they thought/ So if anyone has an input on the topic I would like to hear about it? Thanks!

Man those youth hunts are exciting! Congrats!

I have seen over a thousand elk there in a weekend before. Lots of hunters but tons of elk! Should be a blast!

Thats great! Doesnt get much better than that!

Awesome! Good find!

Great buck! Congrats! Good luck on filling the other tag!

That bull has some awesome character! Congrats on a monster!

Thats awesome! Cool pics!

+1

That would be interesting.

I grew up shooting a 243 and still do from time to time. It has killed 6 deer and some pigs on top of a couple elk! I was always the smallest kid in school and it was the perfect gun and big enough to do the job on an elk. 22-250 is a great gun to though. You really cant go wrong with either.

Coues! Nice find!

Man only 4 years old!

You seem to be doing a great job, for a first hunt those are both shooters in my book!

My pops and I have been discussing the same idea for a couple years as well, " measureing by, volume+spread" either useing water or sand methods with calibrated tanks and such. I think it would fully be a more acurate system of how " Big" antlers are, or how much space they take up. It would be measured to the nearest cubic centimeter maybe? The only thing we can't figure is how to measure them in a tank while attached to the skull, sheds would be easy. Then ,the average guy would not have calibrated or" special sand" and calibrated tank and be familiar with formulas of volume displacement. Then you would have to pre soak the antlers for water methods. Then the antlers would" grow" in water, there goes the 60 day drying period. I think sand methods would be the most practical, I won't go into all the details but weve pretty much figured it out and sounds like you have too.Would be cool wouldn't it. When core samples are taken for costruction applications, back at the lab you are doing tests that determin the compaction or air voids etc. etc. (weather it be concrete, asphalt blah blah blah) and the only way to do that involves measureing the Volume of the core sample , It's simple math formulas, down to thousands- hundreds- tenths of cubic inches etc. It would be cool if they were measured like Motorcycles in CC's/ cubic centimeters, IMO. I never thought about sand before, that might be a better way!