5X5 or 10pt
10-29-2002, 06:07 AM
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RE: 5X5 or 10pt
The way I always understood it was with whitetail you counted all the points and with mulies and blacktails you did the 4X5 stuff. What do I know though, I have only hunted blacktail once in Ca.
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10-29-2002, 06:40 AM
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RE: 5X5 or 10pt
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Well, do you call it a two pointer? hehe <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
Well, do you call it a two pointer? hehe <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
10-29-2002, 06:59 AM
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RE: 5X5 or 10pt
Is it a crick or a creek ? Thats the imaginary line that seperates 5x5 and 10 pointer.
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10-29-2002, 08:38 AM
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RE: 5X5 or 10pt
When out west I use thier lingo. When at home I use ours. We're all right. Interesting point is that big bucks aren't just a western thing. Just Buffalo County, WI has 33 B&C and 118 P&Y bucks. That's just one county!
11-05-2002, 07:55 AM
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RE: 5X5 or 10pt
Actually there are two theories about tine counting methods, although neither have been scientifically confirmed.
One holds that when Teddy Roosevelt went back east from his hunting and ranching expeditions to the west, most notably here in North Dakota back in the 1800s, he quickly realized that the easterners had grown so accustomed to shooting deer just out of their spots that they could no longer count very high and so he broke it down into smaller numbers that they could grasp.
The second theory is that easterners aren't smart enough to learn their addition tables and never got beyond counting their numbers on their fingers. So where an intelligent western can add 5 plus 5 and come up with 10 in his mind, an easterner has to count on his fingers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
As I said this has never been confirmed so their may be other theories that prevail in the end.
One holds that when Teddy Roosevelt went back east from his hunting and ranching expeditions to the west, most notably here in North Dakota back in the 1800s, he quickly realized that the easterners had grown so accustomed to shooting deer just out of their spots that they could no longer count very high and so he broke it down into smaller numbers that they could grasp.
The second theory is that easterners aren't smart enough to learn their addition tables and never got beyond counting their numbers on their fingers. So where an intelligent western can add 5 plus 5 and come up with 10 in his mind, an easterner has to count on his fingers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
As I said this has never been confirmed so their may be other theories that prevail in the end.