Take this little quiz from The Boone and Crockett Club. Fun and informative, and will help make your Wednesday a little more bearable.
1. There are currently 8,568 typical whitetails listed in Boone and Crockett records. What percentage are 8-pointers?
2. Which antler characteristic factors most heavily into the score of a typical whitetail?
3. Continent-wide, what are the odds of a deer hunter entering a Boone and Crockett-qualifying whitetail?
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Funny how “world record” 8 pointers seem to get a lot of attention since the Bulliner buck…and we never hear about the reality south of the border.
B&C 4 pointers…2 %? Main Beams. 1/37,500 for a B&C buck? just picked a number.
good fun. interesting.
Rats. Further than I thought on some…closer on others. Fun!
I’d say 5%.
How specific are we getting on antler characteristic? I know average percentages of each score (main beams, spread credit, G2, G3, etc.) From this angle I’d say main beams.
1/25,000. Continent-wide changes things…cause some states only get a few out of their entire yearly harvest.
I guessed 4% (a little high), tine length (wrong?), and 1/10,000 (a little high).
They claim as a percentage of score the rank is main beams(30%), mass(18%), and then spread and individual tines (12% each), but that is deceiving because they break up each tine into a separate category. If you figure that over 97% of B&C bucks have more than 8 points, then the collective tine length would likely be the #1 factor of score on almost all B&C bucks, with main beams and mass trailing that.
missed it too, I definitely said tine length; in fact think I’ve said that on TV too :)