If five antler scorers were to lay their tapes on the antlers of a buck hanging over the late Logan Sewell's mantel in Vidalia, La., they might very well come up with five different tallies. That's because the non-typical rack carries what many would consider as multiple main beams, and the choice of a typical mainframe will affect spread, symmetry and circumferences.
Without lapsing into a full discussion of how antlers are scored, suffice it to say that the Boone and Crockett Club's system is based on the premise that whitetails, by nature's design, should have symmetrical antlers. Buckmasters, of course, dismisses that notion. If the buck grew it, the nation's largest deer hunting organization scores it. Thus, compared to getting a fair and accurate B&C score for the Louisiana buck, determining its BTR score was almost child's play.
Even if veteran BTR scorers have differing opinions, the results aren't likely to change very much. The biggest difference would be...