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Here's a shot of the right G2 area on Chuck Hartman's buck. Pretty awesome, huh? (Click here to read today's story in The Roanoke Times, or better yet, go buy a paper!)

Because both of these points share a common base, one of these would be considered the G2 and the other would be an abnormal "sticker."  This trait renders the rack a non-typical in the eyes of Boone and Crockett.

I always hate to get too hung up on scores, but I understand a lot of people care about that. This trait really kills the score. Had these been separate points this rack would have been a typical 10 with two stickers.

I'm far from expert on scoring, but I think that means the rack's net typical score would be the gross minus penalities, the largests of which would be for the 7-inch drop tine. There would also be penalties for lack of symmetry, which would total up to a few points. (If I'm off base here, baseball pun not intended, someone feel free to chime in.)

So, if the gross non-typical score was around 184, as one expert who has measured the rack estimates, that would put the potential net typical score in the low- to mid-170s -- big enough to make the all-time Boone and Crockett book. And, just to give you an idea how rare that is, Virginia has just over a dozen typicals in the all-time book. (The record was 189 2/8, killed in Buchanan County in 1999.)

Of course while it's fun to speculate, it doesn't really matter. The rack is what it is, which is just a monstrous whitetail for Virginia or anywhere else.