by Dave Hurteau

This is it. This is the fourth and final buck in our contest and your chance to win a new Bowtech Insanity CPX compound bow, the company’s flagship model for 2012.

All you have to do is guess the gross B&C score of this here critter, add it to your guesses for the first three bucks (linked below), and post your grand total in the comment section below.

by Dave Hurteau

Okay people, here is the third buck in our scoring contest. I’ll say again that you are playing for a brand new Bowtech Insanity CPX compound bow, the company’s flagship model for 2012.

If you are joining us late, here’s what is going on: I have now posted three of four bucks photos. (Click here if you missed the first one, here for the second one.) I will post the fourth and last buck next week. Your job is to guess the gross B&C score of each and keep track of your guesses. Fractionals will count. When I post the final buck, I’ll ask you for your grand total. Whoever is closest wins the bow*. If there is a tie, we will have a tiebreaker buck.

by Scott Bestul

The velvet-covered antlers of whitetail deer—long regarded as one of the fastest-growing tissues in the animal kingdom—have been studied for years for everything from simple cell replication to cancer research. Well, apparently companies like Nutronics Labs have jumped on the wondrous properties of velvet and are promoting (oh, and selling) it in spray form as a means to “increase lean muscle tissue, experience quicker recovery, and overall healthy natural performance gains.”

Well, hey, this is America. If folks can make a buck off some velvet, no harm, no foul...right?

Well, Major League Baseball thought differently, and last August issued a warning to its players to abandon use of the spray because it “contained potentially contaminated nutritional supplements” that might cause a player test positive for banned substances, according to this “ESPNGO” story filed last fall. Scientists have discovered the presences of IGF-1 (a banned performance enhancer) in the velvet of deer antlers, which caused the league to issue the warning.

by Dave Hurteau

Below is the next buck in our scoring contest. On the off chance that you were hit on the head since Round 1 or are simply having trouble understanding the headline above, I’ll remind you that you’re playing for a brand new Bowtech Insanity CPX compound bow, the company’s flagship model for 2012.

If you are just joining us, here’s the deal: I will post a total of four bucks photos, one per week, for one month. (Click here if you missed the first one.) You will guess the gross B&C score of each and keep track of your guesses. Fractionals will count. When I post the final buck, I’ll ask you for your grand total. Whoever is closest wins the bow*. If there is a tie, we will have a tiebreaker buck.