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With one picture-what does this deer score?

I have a reason for posting these. I see a lot of confident score guessers. I'm pretty confident in my scoring, but I'm wrong often and I see many people guessing way too low and way too high fairly often.
 

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Very first thing I see is the head/antlers closer to the camera lense compared to body of deer. That is synonymous with "long-arming", thus inflating the "perceived size". My guess on gross score is 145".
 
For what it's worth the deers beams are 23 2/8 and 24 4/8

The 24" is missing a 1.5" on the sheds I have (so really one beam is over 25")

G2s are over 8"
 
164" and some change. Measurements included. Has been measured three times. This is the lowest score recorded. Over 165 if he had not broken the beam.

it's amazing how an 8" G2 can look barely 5" I was confident this deer went over 160" going into season until new pictures changed my mind. I was in the 145" range also.

Im spending a lot of time going back through pictures wondering just how big some of last years deer really were. I'd imagine a lot of us are getting deer on camera and severely underestimating them
 

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