Maybe you are like me and don’t really care about tape measures and record books. Or maybe you do care and you are trying to “make the book” on several species. Still yet, maybe a scoring system is good for relaying information like “I saw a One-hundred-fifty class white-tailed buck or a 300 inch bull elk. What does that mean?
Here’s the official Pope and Young Chart posted on their website at :https://www.pope-young.org/records/score_chart.asp
MINIMUM POINT SCORE REQUIREMENTS
Under the heading of North American big game are the following species categories with their appropriate minimum entry score requirements (using the Boone & Crockett/Pope & Young scoring system). Geographic boundaries, as described in the publication Pope and Young Club Measurer’s Manual, are established for the categories.
| Alaska Brown Bear |
20 |
*Mule Deer, non-typical |
170 (12 4/8) |
| Black Bear |
18 |
*Whitetail Deer, typical |
125 |
| Grizzly Bear |
19 |
*Whitetail Deer, non-typical |
155 (15) |
| Polar Bear |
20 |
*Roosevelt’s (Olympic) Elk |
225 |
| Bison |
100 |
*Tule Elk |
225 |
| *Barren Ground Caribou |
325 |
*American Elk, typical |
260 |
| *Central Canada Barren Ground Caribou |
300 |
*American Elk, non-typical |
300 (20) |
| *Mountain Caribou |
300 |
Rocky Mountain Goat |
40 |
| *Quebec/Labrador Caribou |
300 |
*Alaska/Yukon Moose |
170 |
| *Woodland Caribou |
220 |
*Canada Moose |
135 |
| Cougar |
13 8/16 |
*Shiras’ Moose |
125 |
| *Columbian Blacktail Deer, typical |
95 |
Muskox |
90 |
| *Columbian Blacktail Deer, non-typical |
115 (10) |
Pronghorn Antelope |
67 |
| *Sitka Blacktail Deer |
75 |
Bighorn Sheep |
140 |
| *Coues’ Deer, typical |
70 |
Dall’s (White) Sheep |
120 |
| *Coues’ Deer, non-typical |
80 (5) |
Desert Bighorn Sheep |
120 |
| *Mule Deer, typical |
145 |
Stone’s Sheep |
120 |
*Velvet entries are accepted. The same minimums apply as for the corresponding hard-horned category.
For official measurements you must let the skull dry for a minimum period of time and have an official scorer from the Pope and Young club measure your trophy.
For your best guess while in the field, well, you can just wing it.
