So, you’ve shot a nice whitetail buck, and after a few minutes of admiring your trophy, you do the thoroughly modern thing and whip out your cell phone, snap some pics, and text them to your buddies.

In his 33 years’ experience scoring trophy antlers for hunters, biologist Dick Hoar says that most tend to under estimate the size of antlers. “The big mistake is they don’t know the definition of a ...

The numbers tell the story. Quick, what does a 170-class whitetail buck look like? If you said big, darn big or even monstrous, you'd mostly be right. While most hunters know how to score a ...

Hey, deer hunters: Do you know how your biggest deer rack scores? I can tell you from recent experience that unless you had a certified measurer do the job, you probably don’t. It’s more complicated ...

When it comes to talking about the size of a buck’s antlers, nothing compares to an accurate measurement of the deer’s rack. When someone reports they got an 8-point, you don’t know if it’s the deer’s ...

One of the attractions of whitetail hunting is the unique characteristics found on each set of antlers. For example, a 1½-year-old buck might have eight points that have tines just a couple inches ...

the commission recorded will not be very useful statistics, Wenzel said, because the skulls, racks and mounts brought in date from a number of years, including one deer shot in the 1930s. “Really, ...