Guy Eastman here from EASTMANS' HUNTING
JOURNAL we're gonna go through a little
tutorial here a little video on how to
score a bull elk just rough score it of course
I'm not an official Boone and Crockett
score if you have a elk or deer or
antelope or any big game species from
North America that will qualify for
boone and crockett then you can contact
them and have an official measurer come
green scored has not dried for sixty
days obviously this bulls pretty fresh
but we just want to know what it is
when we score an elk we have the main
measurements are of course you
measure all the tines the main beam
length four circumferences not five a
lot of guys get this messed up they'll
measure the base and then they'll do
four more
which equals five circumference and
that's not how elk are done officially
it is only four measurements between
each set of tines they measure the
circumference at the the smallest
circumference in between the two tines
then we will measure the inside spread
not the outside spread you can measure
the outside spread and that's for
telling your buddies about it you've got
a 50 inch bull or whatever but the only
spread that counts for score is inside
the main beans
one thing I want to mention also for
boone and crockett we only measure
everything in eighths so we don't do
fifteen and a half inches we do 15 and
four eighths fourteen one eighth sixteen
seven eighths so you do eighths we're gonna
start off we're gonna score one horn then the
other we are going to start with the
left one we're gonna measure the main
beam which is from the burr on the
outside of the horn all the way out to
the tip so do it more accurately you can
get a cable and run a cable we're just
gonna run a tape for now just because
we're just quick scoring this so you go
from the bottom of the burr all along
the outside of the horn
the easiest way here is to just kind of
go along and hold it like this if you have
another person helping you they can kind
of stabilize the tape but we are just
kind of doing this roughly and quickly
because again it is not official
and we want to go clear out to the tip getting it all the bow
of the antler and we are right at 50
50 inches which is pretty good
anytime you get 50 is good on an elk
high 50s is huge anything 58 to 60 is
gigantic anything in the mid to low 40s
is short big bull like this will have
usually have 50 inches so 50 and 0 okay
now we're gonna go with the g1 these are
labeled as G's G 1 2 3 4 5 so this bull
has 5 G's there somewhere with g1 we
measure these points we measure them
where you start is just like if you
sawed it off so that it was flush
with the beam so what I do is lay my
tape here kind of get a line where if it
was to be sawing off visually put my eye
on that point and just measure it again
if you know official measurer do it he
will be much more accurate and concise than
myself 15 and 1 for the g1 g2
18 and two which is really pretty good
20 is huge 17 and 0
19 and 7 and 12 and 6 we've got the main
beam measured we've got all the points
measured now we're going to give the
circumferences and then we're going
to switch to the other horn so h1 so
the circumference again is between the
first two points it's not the base
between the first two points so we're
gonna have eight and three easiest way
to do this kind of slide your tape up
and down this to kind of try to get an
idea where that the narrowest point is
six and six seven even looks like this
has a lot of even measurements for some
reason people might think I'm estimating
six and zero so that's the left horn now
we're going to switch around do the
right horn
there's only three elements to an elk
score really it's the points the beams
and the inside spread so we've got the
left horn gone we've got the right one
done now we're gonna do the inside
spread sometimes they'll put the outside
spreads that inside outside spread does
not count they do record it but it
doesn't count to the score so the inside
spread is the widest point in between
the main beams here and this one's going
to be probably right here right at the
royals underneath so it's inside to inside straight
across you don't get to go at an angle
you have to go straight across and here we're going to go
thirty four and one we're going to total
the left horn total of right horn add
the inside spread and that will be the
gross score of course when they
officially score them they take off the
difference between each point and
measurement from the side to side and
deduct that but we're not going to do
that here we just want to know a gross
score what this bull is once you get all
the math done and tabulate it on the
bull this bull is 359 just shy we're gonna
call them a 360 is a 360 bull a really
big bull for this day and age but
remember the score isn't everything it's
all about the adventure of the hunt and
getting out there and getting the
experience in the out of doors
so remember fair chase the only way to
hunt and take trophy big game we'll see
you next week right here on our
Eastmans' youtube channel