Guess the score of each side?

[mozey]

I was doing a grid search for the match of a 157" brown elk shed that I'd found a week earlier when I found both of these under the same tree a couple hundred yards away (not ATL):

These muley sheds appear to be at least five years old. Several inches of the left have since become porcupine lunch. It's kind of a crappy cell phone pic, but anyone care to guess the score of each side? Nothing but bragging rights to the winner... ;-)

I'll post a few more pics and the actual measurements later.

 

[BreederBuck]

147"

 

[mozey]

Heheh...that truely is a crappy pic... ;-)

Here's some different angles of the same set:

 

[Longun]

Too bad you couldn't of found them about 10 years earlier. Nice antlers but ain't gonna score for beans cause they are all chewed up. Get them repaired THEN we'll score them!

 

[mozey]

Wish I would have found them earlier too, but this is the first time I've ever been in this particular draw. I do plan to get these repaired and mounted.

The right side scores 89, and the left (gnawed points and all) still scores 80 1/2. Both main beams are 27 1/2, and the mass measurements are nearly identical and 20 each. I've held the sheds up to some of my other mounts, and estimate that the inside spread would be around 28. The right side has an additional seven abnormal points and the left has five, but all are under an inch, so no deductions for those (plus, I think they look cool).

With the inside spread credit limited to 27 1/5, the "as is" score would gross 197, with 8 1/2 in difference deductions nets it at 188 1/2. In my world, that's still a pretty decent score.

If we assume five gnawed-off inches on the left G2, and three gnawed-off inches on the left G4, the gross would be 205, the difference deductions would be reduced to 7 1/2, and the net would be 197 1/2; would have been good enough for all-time.

I have hiked all around this area, but I've yet to see any deer that comes even close to this ol' boy. It's nice to know that the potential is there. I never did find the matching elk shed that I was after, but in the upcoming months, I'll be spending a lot more time in this area to see if I can score a more recent set from this same deer, or at least one that he passed his genes on to...

Happy hunting to all.