I stumbled across this today. I’m not sure if it’s been posted here before, but still a good discussion item.

https://www.all-about-moose.com/moose-antlers.html

This conversation has come up at moose camp a few times. The one time it actually made a difference was the one year we went up to fort Nelson looking for a ten point or better. After some discussion about counting points we kind of made a loose agreement if the bull has a full palm and some brow tines he probably has either ten points or three on the brow. Out of the bulls we’ve seen that have a full palm and brow tines they’ve all passed as a ten point or three brows. We ended up shooting a nice big bull that year and like the other bulls of that size it had 3 brow tines and ten points.

The other time it made a difference and we would’ve been wrong was this little spike fork we saw. My partner knocked it over because he had a limited entry tag for any bull and the moose was definitely 1.5 years old but 3 points on both sides. It’s pretty hard to judge from 2-300 yards out.