Very good estimate. The kicker is actually scored as another tine with a common base and is 7". The actual gross green score was 147.5. My point of posting the picture was to show what a 140 basic 8 looks like, which he is minus the extra tine coming off the right 2. Most people who had this deer in their hands guessed him in the mid 150s because he looks big with the mass and spread he has. I love a big 8. A 140 8 is every bit as impressive as a 160 10 to me. Score doesn't matter a lot of times.

So take his kicker and extra air away, he's a mear mortal. Impressive buck. BTW, I'll take that 160 5x5 over a 140 4x4 all day long.

Ya but I'd rather have a 140 8 than a 140 10 🙂

We killed 8's that were over 150 in a club I use to hunt in .

Jb, I agree, a 10 with 1" g4 is barely a 10.

Just happy too see one and maybe kill a spike = good ol days????

Screw that!

I’ll gladly take the present over the “good ol days”.

Seeing 10-20 in a good sit and passing 120” 3yr olds is pretty nice if you ask me.

Been a truckload of 150 8s killed in that area.

Back when hunting was fun, you didn't need 39 licenses and permits and privilege cards, and scoring meant gettin' a little on Saturday night.

A 150 8 is a heck of a deer anywhere. I have never personally seen or know anybody that has seen a 150 Alabama 8 pt but I obviously must not have hunted the area you are talking about. I have hunted Alabama since 1984 and the biggest 8 I have seen taken in the state is a high 140s buck killed near Eufaula.many many years ago. I have only hunted the southern third of the state from Selma down.

I've seen one

There was one killed in the city limits of Scottsboro a few weeks ago. One of our local Taxidermists has one he killed several years ago. I bet several members on here have seen it. I have one that's within a pecker length of 150. And not John Holmes either.

Remember the one I told you about seeing on the last day of that public bow hunt? The Gibson buck? Heck of a lot bigger than 150”.

Forgot about that one , I saw it dead in the back of the truck.

I know of one killed on BNP in the late 70's. How long is the statute of limitations?

Yep he was a giant. Biggest deer I’ve ever seen on the hoof I think.

There was a clean 8 killed in lamar county in 99 that I was fortunate enough to see. Went 167” as an 8. Same guy had an 18 point that went in the low 180s. You wouldn’t look twice at it compared to the 8. It’s g2 we’re like 16” and it’s g3 were like 14. It literally had coke can bases. Absolute giant.

The taxidermist that picked up my buck told he has a 158” main frame 8 with a 9” kicker he called it, in his shop. He’s gonna send me pictures when he gets back in town.

George Mann's big 8 was a 170 , I think it was a bow kill.

The one a friend killed had 16" tines. An opening day kill from the valley

Lots of practice there...

My taxidermist had a giant Alabama 8 pt in his shop but it was a high fence deer. I would love to see the ones you guys are talking about as they must be very impressive.