Got one...

It's a 10 point.:D Double brow points on left side.

Looch is right.The gov get a few local places to be Registration Stations.They take your tag,license #,###,what parish shot,when,and then affix a gov reg tag to the hide.On a buck,they count points and measure the base of each point.They also take the lower jaw,unless your getting it mounted,then they take a tooth.

Here's a better pic of the rack...

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Nice deer! Nice TEN point rack! Here in Ontario, you shoot your deer, tag it, cut and wrap, done. No check stations or anything like that. Would be nice though, as I am finding in my area at least, the deer numbers are dropping but no one is listening or seems to care.
 
looch said:
When you shoot a game animal that requires a tag, you need to get it to a registration station where they take pertinent information - hunting license number, permit info, time of kill, location on map, caliber used, if a doe whether it had milk, etc. Then you get a document that indicates you registered a game animal and entitles you to be in possession of game meat.

How does your province collect statistics about the hunt?
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They send me an email after the season, and ask.

My province trust me in possession of game meat without needing any more permits. And does not care if the hide has a tag on it or not.

All in all, it works out well.

Your system sounds like it was worked out in consultation with the Newfoundland one. Or was it the other way around? Glad I don't have to put up with that.

FWIW, where I grew up, it'd be a 3x3. No brows, no extra spikes counted.

For a score, anything under 1 1/2 inches is ignored, IIRC.

Oh well. If it makes you feel better....:D

Seriously, thats a nice little buck. A little bit of a non-typical rack. Should be good eats!

Cheers
Trev
 
That registration station sounds like a Pain in the A$$.

What time is it open until? What happens if you get one 15 minutes before the end of the day and it take 2 hours to get it out of that ravine it slid down into?

Here in Sask. You shoot it, tag it and go home for some drinks and a bbq.

Nice buck... should be good eatin'. Doesn't matter how you count the rack... can't eat it anyway.
 
casterpollox said:
That registration station sounds like a Pain in the A$$.

What time is it open until? What happens if you get one 15 minutes before the end of the day and it take 2 hours to get it out of that ravine it slid down into?

Here in Sask. You shoot it, tag it and go home for some drinks and a bbq.

Nice buck... should be good eatin'. Doesn't matter how you count the rack... can't eat it anyway.
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It is a pain.There is only 1 in my town(local Yamaha dealer).and it's only open 9-5 weekdays,til noon Sat.The next closest is almost an hour away.If you get something on the weekend,you either drive an hour each way to register it,or wait til Monday.I like to get the hide off asap.
 
Why is it that the provinces with the most hunting restrictions, silly gun laws laws and animal registrations have the poorest hunting. I think it has to do with the attitude of hunters back there, all the poaching and pitlamping that go on in the maritimes is disgraceful. If the legit hunters back there took a proactive roll against the poaching that goes on there it might make a difference and the gov't might not have to regulate hunters like they are preschoolers.
 
looch said:
When you shoot a game animal that requires a tag, you need to get it to a registration station where they take pertinent information - hunting license number, permit info, time of kill, location on map, caliber used, if a doe whether it had milk, etc. Then you get a document that indicates you registered a game animal and entitles you to be in possession of game meat.

How does your province collect statistics about the hunt?
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Wow. Sure not like that. Sounds like a bunch of litigious garbage to me.

I shoot deer. Field dress deer. Mark my tag. Take tag deer and tag to butcher. Wait (way too long). Pick up meat. Pay butcher (way too much). Eat deer.

I hope we never get "registration stations" here in BC.

"A document that allows you to be in possession of game meat" ??? Seriously...WTF is this country coming to? Soon you will need documents to walk down the sidewalk after midnight.
 
Hey, I never said I liked it...

My dad enjoys processing game and does it for free for all of his friends and family. Last year he processed over 20 animals. Well it wasn't long before the game warden set up shop down the street and those registration papers came in handy. No game animal makes it into the cooler without one.

And Oscar - you're right. There is a definite poaching problem, but I didn't know it was specific to the Eastern part of the country.
 
bruteman said:
It's a 10 point.:D Double brow points on left side.

Looch is right.The gov get a few local places to be Registration Stations.They take your tag,license #,###,what parish shot,when,and then affix a gov reg tag to the hide.On a buck,they count points and measure the base of each point.They also take the lower jaw,unless your getting it mounted,then they take a tooth.

Here's a better pic of the rack...

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Nice buck. Not that it makes any difference, but we always called that a three point. Never count the brow tines. Out west when someone shots a 10 pointer, the rack doesn't fit in the truck. More realistically, it would probably be non typical. It's just a simpler way of gaging the size of antlers until you see them.
 
Take the number of points multiply by four,add the number of hunters involved in hunt,subtract your age,add your wife's bra size,count the points again,and you will get a 10 pointer.Simple in the east.
Out west now that's complicated.
 
looch said:
When you shoot a game animal that requires a tag, you need to get it to a registration station where they take pertinent information - hunting license number, permit info, time of kill, location on map, caliber used, if a doe whether it had milk, etc. Then you get a document that indicates you registered a game animal and entitles you to be in possession of game meat.

How does your province collect statistics about the hunt?
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A survey. Your license entitlles you to be in possession of game meat out here. Another reason to avoid NB - as though SuperCub wasn't reason enough! :D
 
Having no experience shooting deer or counting points myself, I find the eastern way of scoring is inherently better. You count up the points, and....you're done. Anything else just seems silly.
 
Nice & tasty looking 10-pointer! So an atypical 9 pointer out west is a 4.5 or is it a 4x5 or 5x4 depending on the day of the week, the wife's time of the month or if you're looking at from front to back or back to front?:D
 
NIce deer, despite all the BS, congrats.

Thats a 10 pointer in Ontario, always has been. always will. That 5x5 stuff was for elk hunters that someone decided now applies to white tails.
 
Eastern/Western count depends where you live.................like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic ,doesn't matter every seats a good seat .Same destination you're going down!When I lived in Ont.the Fish Cops had a checkstop at La Cloche leaving Manitoulin Island.Other than a ferry only way off the Island.I remember as a kid going through and one of our party had been drinking a little too heavily the past evening and a young Warden was being trained by an older Warden checking deer teeth for aging.Well the drunk pops out his false teeth and hands them to the rookie and asks him how old he is!!!The kid turned red and the older Warden just about pissed himself laughing.......Harold
 
I refer to bucks I shoot as 5X4, 5X5, 4X4 etc. These include the main beam as a point and the brow tines...

I consider this my biggest buck although at a "5X4" he does not score near as my biggest.
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I call this guy a "6X6" NT...
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To each their own....
 
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