Not a term when referring to bucks that I ever really heard growing up but I hear a lot on television and on other hunting resources such as Bowhunting.com. I've always just referred to them as bucks or however much bone they were carrying, but I don't understand what mainframe is or what it refers to on the buck. Tried looking it up on google but I lost some brain cells on the stuff I got back...So could someone explain exactly what it means please?
Whitetail deer have one main beam that the other tines come off of. That is called the "main beam". The main frame is formed by the two main beams and the standard 3 or 4 points on each main beam. Hence a "mainframe 8pt" has the main beam and three tines on each beam. Mule deer on the other hand have antlers that come off the skull and split into a "Y" and each of those "Y's" will fork again. Hope this helps.
Oh yea, I know what the main beam is but I always hear people talking about "mainframe 8 pointers". Have no idea what that is.
I think the only way I can really explain it is with an example. Say an 8 pointer has 2 kickers of one of his tines. So he is actually a 10 pointer, but he may be reffered to as a mainframe 8 pointer. Hope this helps.
Ok so what your saying is that he is really a 8 pointer but "technically" a 10. So really people just came up with a term so they wouldn't have to say technically all the time I guess lol.
Matching points on each beam (G's)= mainframe 6 or 8 or 10,12,ect. A 4x7 is a mainframe 8. a 3x7 is a mainframe 6. All other points are a gross deduct to arrive at the net score for py purposes.
