How to score a trophy deer? Ok, finally you have done it. You got lucky and harvested a large rack deer with a lot of points, say 8 points or more. An appropriate question to ask now is, how do I go about scoring it? Well, let me be brief. There are two scoring techniques, Pope and Young (P & Y) and the Boone and Crockett (B & C) method. The P & Y method represents deer harvested with a bow and arrow method only whereas the B & C method is for deer harvested with a firearm. In order to get your trophy deer into the record books, there are certain rules and regulations that must be followed. First, the deer must be scored by an official scorer. Second, there must be a 60 day drying out period before the measurements may be taken. But, you can do it yourself and this will give you a very close estimate on where the rack will score. I did this for the first time recently and was actually amazed at how quick and easy it was. Once you know the close approximation of the score, then you can make the next decision about taking it to an "official scorer". Official scorers may charge a fee for scoring, so you may want to do this yourself before paying money to score a small 100 to 120 class deer. If you would like to score your deer online, the Boone and Crockett website has a nice scoring page. If you would like to score the deer offline using a spreadsheet that will compute all measurements, download and extract the Typical or Non-Typical files from our Download area. Note: the .pdf file contains good instructions for the measurements. I prefer the B & C link above with the good instructions and the spreadsheet file to compute the measurements. Estimated time for the whole scoring process is 20 minutes. The Pope & Young scoring system has some good information also. This Article comes from North Carolina Wildlife :: Hunting and Fishing News, Forums, Photo Gallery http://ncwildlife.info The URL for this Article is: http://ncwildlife.info/Knowledge_Base/op=show/kid=13.html