By Mike Handley

Two significant changes are being implemented in Buckmasters' Full-Credit Scoring System, both inspired by actual incidents. For starters, we're revising the fair chase affidavit on the backside of our scoresheets to allow for the states and provinces to dictate what is and isn't legal within their borders. We're also going to accept and give full credit to racks with broken points or beams, as long as the scorer sees them BEFORE they're repaired AND can get an accurate measurement when the pieces are put back into place.

March 1, 2008, is the deadline for bucks to appear in the next edition of "Buckmasters Whitetail Trophy Records." All entries received after that date will not appear in print until 2011.

Like other record-keeping organizations, Buckmasters updates its record book every three years. The fourth edition, which included more than 9,000 awesome whitetails, was published during the fall of 2005. The fifth will be published next fall, and it'll contain an additional 1,500 to 2,000 deer - those that have been measured since the last book rolled off the press.

The fifth edition will feature the most up-to-date roster of trophy whitetails, including several new state- and even a couple of new world records.

Anyone interested in having his or her trophy included in the next ...