#3067496 - 12/07/12 08:13 AM
Measuring Tines
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When you measure tines on a buck's rack, do you lay the tape on the outside of the tine from beam to tip? Or on the inside? Or is there no right or wrong?
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#3067510 - 12/07/12 08:24 AM
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Outside, right where the tine starts off the main beam. You do not get the thickness of the beam added to tine measurement as some like to do. See this link for a diagram. http://www.boone-crockett.org/bgRecords/...+Whitetail+Deer
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#3067655 - 12/07/12 09:28 AM
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You mean I cant measure from the bottom of the beam! 132" sounds so much better than 125" though 
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#3067678 - 12/07/12 09:43 AM
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Thanks. That's what I thought.
I had measured a buck I killed before I took it to a taxidermist. He threw a tape on it and started measuring it. He was measuring the inside of the tines. I told him that I measured along the outside. It turns out that it made a fairly significant difference in the gross score.
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#3067680 - 12/07/12 09:44 AM
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It turns out that it made a fairly significant difference in the gross score.
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#3067820 - 12/07/12 11:09 AM
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Take a ruler and make a straight line where the main beam crosses the bottom of the tine, this is where you measure from.
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#3067893 - 12/07/12 11:54 AM
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and you get 8 mass measurments regardless fo how many points it has,,
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#3068007 - 12/07/12 12:53 PM
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Take a ruler and make a straight line where the main beam crosses the bottom of the tine, this is where you measure from.
Great idea. I was doing it "roughly". To be more exact that seems like the best way.
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