Antler Question

[Idlewild]

Saw a small 10pt last night. Here's my question. If the G2 is an obvious "fork" at the top instead of it being 2 seperate, obvious tines, is it considered a split G2 with the next tine down the main beam being G3? Hope that doesn't sound too confusing. See diagram below:

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[Catdaddy]

Be careful, I don't think there's a season on mule deer in this state.

[bigoak]

yep

[Idlewild]

diagram in no way reflects the size, or lack there of, of this particular deer. I simply "hand" drew it to show the splits. He was very young, no mass at all, but his spread was wide enough to bring his main beam just to the tips of his ears when alert......and his "points" were more like small stickers, no tine length whatsoever.....with the exception of the split G2's.

[2thDoc]

each "G" comes off the main beam.

thus, the forks are G-2a and G-2b...or something like that. the g-3 is the next branch off the main beam.