Eye guards or brow tines

Ikeepitcold

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What do you call them?

Deer I call brow tines and elk eye guards

Deer brow tines due to where they are located

Elk the antlers extend out to guard the eyes during fighting.

I?ve heard the opposite, the same and backwards. What do you call them?
 

mallardsx2

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Brow tines.

I also say scrape....not paw places....

I also say buck rub.....not horn tree....

I call a vacuum a sweeper too.... Wife always jabs at me for that one. lol
 

Wyoming Hart

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Brow tines for all to me. I think it is just another one of those things that it depends on where you're from. No one I know of calls them eye guards. Does anyone know what the deer's "fish" is?
 

kidoggy

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same brow tines for deer
eye guards for elk.


never really gave it much thought though. it's what every member in my family calls em.


my motto is ,call it what ya want but never call me late fer dinner.
 

Wyoming Hart

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The "inner" tenderloins. Must just be a central Pennsylvania thing. Not sure why the name, just have called them that all my life as most people around call them that.

I've always wondered why a mule deer's eye guards/brow tines are smaller for the most part than whitetails. Not always the case, just seems like the majority are just a mere inch or two while some whitetails can be as long the points coming off the main beam.
 

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The "inner" tenderloins. Must just be a central Pennsylvania thing. Not sure why the name, just have called them that all my life as most people around call them that.

I've always wondered why a mule deer's eye guards/brow tines are smaller for the most part than whitetails. Not always the case, just seems like the majority are just a mere inch or two while some whitetails can be as long the points coming off the main beam.
just the nature of the beast ,I suppose.
 

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Brow tines for deer.
Where I hunt it's rare for the muleys to have them at all. Maybe 10 percent do. And usually short.
Where I've hunted in north texas nearly all do have them. And good ones

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kidoggy

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Brow tines for deer.
Where I hunt it's rare for the muleys to have them at all. Maybe 10 percent do. And usually short.
Where I've hunted in north texas nearly all do have them. And good ones

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down there they all em cactus sticks
 

tdub24

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Come to think of it, on elk for the last couple of years I just call them fronts, typically when describing overall potential scoring of the animal.
 

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I’ve always called them eye guards on deer and brow tines on elk. Deer the eye guards don’t count as a point either, a four point with eye guards is still a four point, not a five point and damn sure not a ten point.