I know some great whitetail hunters who have killed several Pope and Young class bucks, but they will not enter them recognition by the record keeping club.
For a lot of hunters, the overall hunting experience combined with how the deer was harvested makes it a trophy. However, there are many hunters who use other methods to determine the trophy status of a deer (notice I said deer, not buck) other than what it takes to be a “book” buck. By keeping track of antler measurements, hunters are able to compare the deer he has killed to every other buck he has killed. Scoring systems of the Boone and Crockett, along with the Pope and Young record books agree with this method of determining a trophy buck. Measurements such as inside spread, width, circumference, tine length, beam length and deductions are the common methods for hunters to compare one buck to another buck.
Size does not matter when it comes to a trophy whitetail. And most importantly the people you share camp with throughout the entire hunt make a whitetail a trophy. The circumstances of the hunt leading up to the kill make a whitetail a trophy. A trophy whitetail is any deer I cleanly killed. I will share my opinion of what a trophy whitetail is before I go any further.
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