Originally Posted by Squeaky
The Dallas county buck is an exceptional deer especially as a mainframe 8 and from Alabama. I don’t personally care what it scores and I’d be plum tickled to kill him. However I don’t think most folks fully understand how much bone it takes to make 170’s as a mainframe 8 point. Below is a deer that scored 183 as an 8 point for reference. It takes coke can size mass, long beams and tines to get into those type scores.

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I was thinking of this buck when this thread popped up. One thing on him, though...the 183 inches is net...this deer, killed in Illinois by Jason Sanders, grossed a little over 192".

Here's a better pic that cuts out the funky angles (which makes the buck's right side look a lot weaker than the left)....

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